Gold Camera Operation

$2,000.00

Full-day professional camera operation for larger productions requiring extended coverage, multiple setups, and greater production flexibility.

Starting at $2,000

What’s Included:

  • Up to 8 Hours of Camera Operation — Dedicated camera operation across a full production day.

  • Pre-Shoot Coordination — Communication with the director, producer, or creative team to review the schedule, shot requirements, technical needs, and production workflow.

  • Professional Camera Operation — Thoughtful framing, exposure, focus, movement, and visual continuity throughout the shoot.

  • Multiple Setups, Scenes, or Locations — Coverage across more complex schedules, talent, interviews, or production environments.

  • Production Integration — Work from an existing shot list, treatment, creative direction, or production plan alongside the broader production team.

  • Footage Organization & Handoff — Captured footage organized for transfer through an agreed media workflow following production.

Camera Equipment

Camera operation pricing covers operator labor only. Productions may provide their own camera package or add equipment from Dawson Holter Creative.

Core Camera Kit — $750/day
A streamlined Sony A1-based professional package with primary lensing, an additional lens when appropriate, batteries, recording media, filtration, and essential camera-side accessories.

Production Camera Kit — $1,150/day
Expanded lens flexibility, external monitoring/recording, greater media and power capacity, and more robust camera-side support.

Full Production Camera Kit — $1,550/day
Multiple-camera capability, expanded lensing, monitoring, stabilization, media, power, and greater production flexibility.

Camera kit rates cover up to one 8-hour production day and are configured according to the technical needs of the shoot.

Perfect For

Commercial productions, branded campaigns, music videos, documentary projects, corporate productions, live events, performances, multi-scene shoots, and productions requiring full-day coverage.

Footage Delivery

Captured footage can be transferred to client-provided storage at the end of production or delivered through an agreed media-transfer workflow.

Additional Production Services

Creative direction, editing and post-production, additional crew, lighting, dedicated audio, specialty equipment and rentals, travel, locations, permits, and other production expenses are available separately and quoted according to project needs.

Custom Productions

Custom quotes are available for projects requiring a combination of camera operation, equipment, creative direction, additional crew, specialty production needs, or post-production.

Additional camera-operation time: $250/hour.

Full-day professional camera operation for larger productions requiring extended coverage, multiple setups, and greater production flexibility.

Starting at $2,000

What’s Included:

  • Up to 8 Hours of Camera Operation — Dedicated camera operation across a full production day.

  • Pre-Shoot Coordination — Communication with the director, producer, or creative team to review the schedule, shot requirements, technical needs, and production workflow.

  • Professional Camera Operation — Thoughtful framing, exposure, focus, movement, and visual continuity throughout the shoot.

  • Multiple Setups, Scenes, or Locations — Coverage across more complex schedules, talent, interviews, or production environments.

  • Production Integration — Work from an existing shot list, treatment, creative direction, or production plan alongside the broader production team.

  • Footage Organization & Handoff — Captured footage organized for transfer through an agreed media workflow following production.

Camera Equipment

Camera operation pricing covers operator labor only. Productions may provide their own camera package or add equipment from Dawson Holter Creative.

Core Camera Kit — $750/day
A streamlined Sony A1-based professional package with primary lensing, an additional lens when appropriate, batteries, recording media, filtration, and essential camera-side accessories.

Production Camera Kit — $1,150/day
Expanded lens flexibility, external monitoring/recording, greater media and power capacity, and more robust camera-side support.

Full Production Camera Kit — $1,550/day
Multiple-camera capability, expanded lensing, monitoring, stabilization, media, power, and greater production flexibility.

Camera kit rates cover up to one 8-hour production day and are configured according to the technical needs of the shoot.

Perfect For

Commercial productions, branded campaigns, music videos, documentary projects, corporate productions, live events, performances, multi-scene shoots, and productions requiring full-day coverage.

Footage Delivery

Captured footage can be transferred to client-provided storage at the end of production or delivered through an agreed media-transfer workflow.

Additional Production Services

Creative direction, editing and post-production, additional crew, lighting, dedicated audio, specialty equipment and rentals, travel, locations, permits, and other production expenses are available separately and quoted according to project needs.

Custom Productions

Custom quotes are available for projects requiring a combination of camera operation, equipment, creative direction, additional crew, specialty production needs, or post-production.

Additional camera-operation time: $250/hour.