Eight Client Films We Made, and What Each One Was Built to Do

Mile 1 Media is a video production company in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. We shoot commercials, corporate and brand film, testimonials, product launches, social content and event coverage across Palm Beach County, Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Stuart and the Treasure Coast, and we travel for work in Orlando and Tampa Bay.

This page exists because a portfolio grid does not tell you much. A still frame shows you what a shot looked like. It does not tell you what the client needed, what format solved it, or what they did with the footage afterwards. So below are eight films we made, each with the brief behind it and a link to watch the whole thing.

One thing we are not going to do here is quote performance numbers. We do not publish client analytics, and inventing a view count or a conversion lift to make a case study look better is not something we are willing to do. What follows is what was made and why.

Xymogen: corporate campus film and the Athletix brand film

Xymogen is a family-owned dietary supplement manufacturer. We produced two very different pieces for them. The first was a campus and culture film, the kind of asset that has to work for recruiting, for practitioner trust and for the About page all at once. The second covered Athletix, a product line that needed its own visual identity rather than inheriting the parent brand look.

Two films, one client, two completely different jobs. That is normal for a manufacturer with multiple audiences, and it is the usual shape of corporate video production work: the company film and the product film rarely share a treatment.

Watch: Xymogen Campus Video and Xymogen Athletix.

Sofwave: a brand pillar video for a medical device

Sofwave makes a non-invasive skin treatment device. Medical device video carries a constraint most commercial work does not: what you show and what you claim are both regulated, and the people watching split into two groups who need opposite things. Practitioners want the mechanism and the clinical framing. Patients want to understand what it feels like and what it does not do.

A pillar video has to hold both without becoming either a lecture or an advert. That balance is most of the work in medical and healthcare video, and it is why these shoots take more pre-production than a standard brand film.

Watch: Sofwave Brand Video.

Critter Control: a commercial spot for a home services brand

Critter Control is a wildlife and nuisance animal removal company. Home services is a category where the buying decision is usually urgent and rarely researched. Somebody has an animal in their attic at nine at night. They are not comparing brand values.

So the spot had to do three things fast: establish that this is a real crew with real trucks, make the process feel controlled rather than alarming, and be short enough to survive a paid placement without burning budget. Thirty seconds is not a limitation in that context, it is the correct length. That is the constraint most commercial and ad spot production lives inside.

Watch: Critter Control Commercial.

Fitment Industries: automotive brand video

Fitment Industries sells aftermarket wheels, tires and suspension. Automotive enthusiast audiences are unusually literate about production. They notice a fake exhaust note, a badly matched wheel, a shot that flatters a stance the car does not actually have. Getting the car wrong loses the room before the message lands.

The film had to hold up to that scrutiny while still working as marketing. It sits alongside the rest of our client work in the demo library.

Watch: Fitment Industries Commercial.

On Location: Super Bowl hospitality promo

On Location is the Official Hospitality Partner of the Super Bowl. Event promotional film has a scheduling problem no other format has: the thing you are filming happens once, it does not stop for you, and the edit is often needed while the event is still running.

You plan coverage rather than shots. You decide in advance what has to be captured no matter what, and you accept that everything else is opportunistic. That planning discipline is the whole of event video production, and it is why event work is quoted differently from a controlled studio day.

Watch: On Location Super Bowl Promo.

Orange County Chief of Police: an on-camera interview

Public sector interview work has a specific difficulty. The subject is usually media-trained in a way that makes them sound careful rather than human, and careful does not hold attention. The job is to get past the prepared answer without pushing someone into saying something they will regret.

That is a room-management problem more than a camera problem. It is the same skill that makes testimonial video production work, which is why we treat both as the same discipline internally.

Watch: Orange County Chief of Police.

Athos: a product launch film

A launch film has one job that no other format shares. It has to make something that does not exist yet in the buyer's mind feel inevitable, and it has to do it on a date that was set by somebody else months ago.

Launch dates do not move for production problems. That means the schedule drives the treatment rather than the other way round, which is the main thing that separates product launch video from ordinary brand work.

Watch: Athos Launch Video.

What these eight have in common

Not much, visually. A supplement manufacturer's campus film and a wildlife removal spot have no shared look and should not. What they share is that the format was chosen after the problem was defined, not before.

That ordering matters more than equipment does. A client who asks for a brand film when what they need is six short testimonials will get a beautiful asset that does not move anything. Most of the value we add happens in the conversation before a camera is booked, which is why our published pricing is structured around output rather than shoot days.

Geographically these span our home market and the ones we travel to. If you are looking specifically at Broward, start with Broward County video production, which covers the county as a whole, and Fort Lauderdale video production for the permitting and airspace detail specific to that city. The full set of stills and additional client work is on the portfolio.

Frequently asked questions

Can we see work in our specific industry before committing?

Yes, and you should ask. The eight above cover manufacturing, medical device, home services, automotive, sports hospitality, public sector and product launch. If your category is not represented, ask anyway. We will tell you honestly whether we have shot something comparable rather than stretching an unrelated project to fit.

Do you publish results for these projects?

No. Client analytics belong to the client, and we do not have permission to publish view counts, conversion data or spend figures. Some clients will speak to their results directly on a reference call. We can arrange that once a project is genuinely under consideration.

How long does a film like these take?

The variable is not shoot length, it is decision cycles. A single-day shoot with one approver typically runs two to three weeks from brief to delivery. The same shoot with a committee, legal review or a regulated claim to clear runs six to eight. Event work is faster on the edit and slower on the planning.

Do you only work with companies this size?

No. The list above skews toward established brands because those are the projects clients let us name. A large share of our work is monthly content for smaller local businesses, which rarely produces a single hero film worth featuring but usually produces better return per dollar.

What does a project like one of these cost?

Commercial and ad spots run $5,000 to $15,000. Brand films run $3,500 to $8,000. Event coverage runs $3,500 to $7,000 and testimonials $1,500 to $3,500. Those are starting ranges scoped to output, not day rates, and the pricing page breaks down what moves a project within a range.

Will you name us as a client?

Only if you want us to. Some clients prefer their video work not be attributed, and that is respected without argument. Nothing goes on this page or the portfolio without a yes.

Related reading

• How to Prepare for Your First Commercial Video Shoot - what to have ready before the crew arrives, if one of these formats is your first.
• Video Production Retainer vs Per-Project - whether one-off films like these or ongoing content fits your situation better.
• Why Every South Florida Business Needs Testimonial Videos - the format with the lowest cost to produce and the shortest path to a sale.

If one of these looks close to what you need, tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you what format actually solves it, including when the answer is that you do not need us yet.