Your creative department.
Already built.
An in-house video and creative team runs $400K+ a year fully loaded before you shoot a frame: salaries, benefits, recruiting, gear, software, studio space. And most companies don't need those roles full-time, they need focused hours from each. Griffith Media gives you the whole department on a monthly engagement: strategy, production, post, and design, with one point of contact and reserved capacity.
Too much content for projects. Not enough for a department.
You’re quoting one-off projects every month, re-explaining your brand every time, and your channels still go quiet between launches. You’ve priced an in-house team and winced. There’s a third option — and it’s the reason Griffith Media exists. As we tell clients: building a team of qualified creatives is challenging and expensive. We already did it.
The operating model
One named producer owns your account.
Requests, schedules, and status live in one place — you never chase five freelancers.
Quarterly planning, monthly delivery.
We plan the quarter's content with your team, batch production days, and ship on a monthly calendar.
Reserved capacity.
Your engagement pre-books production days and post-production hours every month, blocked out on our calendar. When needs spike (launch, event), we scale the month, not renegotiate the relationship.
The full bench.
Producer, cinematographers, editors, motion designer, graphic designer, project manager — plus our own studio.
Senior involvement doesn't vanish after signing.
Paul and Grace stay in the planning room.
Simple terms.
Six-month commitment, then quarterly.
Four ways to staff creative
| In-house hire | Freelancer roster | Big agency retainer | Griffith Media Fractional Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $80K+ fully loaded per hire, $400K+ for a team | Unpredictable | Retainer plus scoped fees | Less than one senior salary (range on call) |
| Capacity | One person's hours | First-come availability | Booked through account layers | Reserved days + hours monthly |
| Gear & studio | You buy it | Sometimes | Marked up | Included — our studio |
| Point of contact | You manage them | You are the producer | Account layer | One named producer |
| Ramp-up | 3–6 months | Per-project re-brief | Long onboarding | Producing in weeks |
What a month can look like
An example scope, not a fixed package.
- Two production days
- Edited social package (8–12 assets)
- One hero piece per month or quarter
- Motion/design support for rollout
- Content calendar management
- Quarterly strategy session
They came for a video.
They stayed for years.
“Their agility and quality meet and often exceed expectations.”
“The first time we worked with them — I knew we weren’t letting go.”
What it costs
Ongoing engagements are customized around monthly production frequency and post capacity. Most clients invest between the cost of one mid-level hire and one senior hire per year — for the output of a full department. We’ll scope a real number in one call.
Questions we always get
- Who owns the content we make?
- You do. Deliverables, project files, and footage are yours — full asset handoff is standard.
- What happens to unused capacity?
- We plan the quarter with your team specifically so reserved capacity gets used — and when needs spike, we scale the month rather than renegotiate the relationship. How capacity carries between months is set in your agreement.
- Can we pause during slow seasons?
- Engagements are built around a quarterly plan, so seasonality gets planned in rather than paused around. We'll walk through the specific terms on the fit call.
- How fast do you turn requests around?
- Monthly deliverables ship on the content calendar we plan with you, and the pipeline is built for speed — we can shoot, edit, and deliver fast when something's on fire.
- What if we already have one in-house person?
- Great — we make them mighty. Your in-house person gains a full bench: crews, editors, designers, and a producer to plan with, instead of doing everything alone.
- What's the minimum commitment?
- Engagements start with a six-month commitment, then run quarterly.
Griffith Media offers a fractional creative team model: a monthly engagement that gives organizations a dedicated producer, film crew, editors, and designers with reserved capacity, quarterly planning, and access to the company’s Richardson, Texas studio — an alternative to hiring an in-house video and creative department.
Stop briefing vendors.
Start running a creative department.
One fit call. A real number. No obligation.