Video production in Melbourne. Commercials, brand films, documentary.
Your story, planned to the minute.
Comma Films is a creative studio and video production company in Melbourne, Victoria. We make television commercials, brand films, documentaries, automotive films and animation for agencies and for brands direct, and we handle every stage in-house: the idea, the script, pre-production, crew, permits, the shoot, the edit, the grade, the sound and the graphics. Based at 132B Wood Street, Preston, shooting across Melbourne, regional Victoria and interstate.
TVCs and campaigns, brand videos and brand stories, documentary, product overviews, customer testimonials and company updates, and the design and animation to go with any of it.
We create, design and develop with you, and we become part of your team. Sitting in the planning, learning the product, asking the questions your customers are going to ask. It’s understanding the business that forges great work.
Television commercials
Script to broadcast delivery: the clearances, the 30, the 15 and the six, and every cut the media plan asks for. National TVCs for Autobarn, Reddy Express, RSL Victoria and Haymes Paint, each one produced end to end from our Preston studio.
Brand films and corporate video
Brand films, and the corporate work to match: internal comms, the message from the CEO, the case study and testimonial for the sales team. All of it made with the same crew and the same care as our commercial work. Audiences don’t separate the production from the company, so a film that feels thrown together says the business might be too.
Harris Capital · HRI · TKCP · NCAP
Documentary
Long-form and short, commissioned and self-initiated. Documentary means being on the ground, in the thick of it, for as long as it takes for the real film to show itself. The Show followed the volunteers behind the Whittlesea Agricultural Show for eight months, from working bees to the weekend itself, asking whether a 163-year-old tradition was about to end.
Automotive
Specialised enough that we treat it as its own discipline. Tracking at speed, studio and location, and the planning that gets a car, a road and 30 minutes of usable light into the same place at the same time.
Animation and motion graphics
2D animation, animated explainers, titles, supers and the motion graphics inside live-action work. Designed and animated in-house, as standalone pieces or built into a film.
RMIT · Swinburne
Stills and design
A shoot day rarely needs to produce just the video. We plan the campaign so a designer can mock up placements before the shoot, or a stills unit can work alongside the film crew on the day. Out of home, billboards, in-store banners, brochures and presentations, handled in-house. One brief, one supplier, everything back in one place.
Borg’s · Sexyland · Reddy Express
Events, launches and promo
No two of these are alike. One week it’s the Patrol Warrior’s first drive across Climies Track in Tasmania, the next it’s a giant postcard towed through Melbourne and Sydney for Experience Gold Coast. Whatever the day is, we turn up with the crew and cameras it needs, and when the job calls for it, we cut on the road so you have something to post that night.
Patrol Warrior Launch · Experience Gold Coast
Music videos
Concept-led music videos from treatment to grade, developed with the artist and made by the same directors and crew behind our commercial and documentary work. Most recently for the Australian prog rock ’n’ roll band Flitcraft.
Flitcraft
Facilitation
Your own creative, your own director, a signed-off client, and a country you don’t know? That’s what the facilitation page is for.
“We’ll fix it in post” gets thrown around a lot. We’d rather fix it in pre.
Pre-production is the part everyone underestimates. It’s the weeks before, not the day itself: learning the product, planning the shoot to the minute, ironing out the creases.
Things go wrong. We just catch them before they become problems.
After storyboarding the Anzac Appeal TVC, we had a couple of the team step through each scene out the front of the office, then cut it into a rough edit so there were no surprises on the day. With 16 shots, five locations and 46 cast and crew planned for a 12-hour day, we knew it worked before anyone called action.
ANZAC APPEALtiming rehearsal and the final TVC
Budget shouldn’t be a dirty word.
Let’s open the conversation. From a range we can tell you what’s realistic, and shape the approach, the schedule and what we’re able to achieve. No overpromising, no underdelivering.
If you’ve got a figure, great. If you haven’t worked one out yet, that’s fine too.
Working it out is part of the job.
We start at the end.
What do you want out of your project, and by when? We work backwards from there until we know what has to happen tomorrow.
A production schedule, scripts, storyboard, shot list. Signed off, locked down before a single booking is made.
Talent, crew, wardrobe, props, locations. Scouted and booked long before the day.
Then the shoot. Then the edit, your reviews, the master, delivery.
The logistics are what make the day possible. Permits, road closures, council approvals, insurance, where the trucks park, what the room sounds like. On the Autobarn shoot, that meant a parking plan for 146 vehicles, scheduling each one’s arrival, parking spot and movements as we swapped hero cars in and out. We finished on schedule.
Preston is the base. The work is wherever the story is.
- A petrol station in Glen WaverleyReddy Express
- The Village Drive-In in Coburg, overnightAutobarn
- A research lab in NewtownHeart Research Institute
- Climies Track on Tasmania’s west coastNissan
- A paint factory in BallaratHaymes Paint
- The Shrine of Remembrance at 4amRSL
- The Melbourne CBD from the airGate 8
- A state forest in ToolangiMazda
- A giant postcard towed over the Sydney Harbour BridgeExperience Gold Coast
- The RACQ Mobility Centre in BrisbaneNissan
- A casting plant in Dandenong SouthNissan Casting Australia Plant
- The Birdsville TrackMazda
USING AIIt seems you can’t go anywhere without the AI question.
Most people assume that means we’re generating images and video.
We’re not. We use it on the slow parts of a job: the spreadsheets, the schedules, the transcripts. Things move faster, and more time gets spent crafting your idea.
AI is a tool. Like everything else in production, it’s only as good as the person directing it.
Let’s make something worth sharing
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