We're Redefining Remote Production.
Your stories are no longer limited by geography. Hometeam works as creative problem solvers powered by a curated network of top-tier filmmakers and support crew located in major markets around the globe.
We’ve worked as creative production partners for…
Projects
We're helping our clients realize the potential of remote production to tell bigger stories.
The Voice
21 Home Follows - Seasons 19 & 20
NBC
Hometeam remotely conducted our nationwide network of top-tier filmmakers to safely shoot 21 doc-style Home Follows across 15 states without ever needing to travel crew.
Zero In
Branded Content Series
LG & Ubisoft
For the 2020 holiday season, we produced and remotely-directed a series of branded content for LG and Ubisoft. Hometeam crews in three cities - across two countries - profiled three A-List celebrity talent. We also handled all post-production, cutdowns, and finishing.
Legendary
Remote B-Roll in 3 Cities
HBO
For the 2021 season of HBO's hit dance competition series, Hometeam crews shot stylish dance sequences with 17 contestants in three cities on a single day.
Google Meet
Commercial shot around the world
To roll out Google’s video chat app, we produced a global story about families and friends connecting during the pandemic.
Global Citizen Prize
Remote Interview in NYC and Nigeria
NBC
For the 2020 Global Citizen Prize awards show - hosted by John Legend on NBC - Hometeam seamlessly conducted and shot an interview between Katie Couric and an award winner in Nigeria.
Trillions of Questions...
Feature Documentary - 90M views
We worked with Google to make a movie about how search works. To illustrate how technology empowers lives aropund the world, we shot b-roll and captured photography across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Brand Moments
Launch Video
This brand spot for Instagram combines images sourced from social with original content shot by our Hometeam filmmakers in the U.S., Rio de Janiero, and Singapore.
Small is Big
Broadcast TV Commercial
CenturyLink
For CenturyLink’s anthem about American small business resilience in the early days of Covid, we tapped 7 regional teams to gather content from 31 small businesses across the United States.
Time to Enroll
National PSA
Healthcare.gov
Hometeam produced, directed, and edited this national PSA to announce the open enrollment period for Healthcare.gov in 2020.
Young Together
Broadcast TV Commercial
Google Android
This broadcast commercial spot for Google Android sourced user-generated style content from our global network of Hometeam filmmakers located in 14 countries.
Meet Me at Starbucks
Broadcast TV Commercial
Starbucks
For Starbucks' first global campaign, we created a brand film shot in 59 Starbucks in 28 countries on a single day. Plus five mini-docs shot by local filmmakers throughout the U.S.
Meet Your Global Crew
The Right Team Wherever You Need Them
We’ve curated the most capable production teams in every market so they’re ready, willing, and able to capture content wherever your story lives. It's not just their talent or their pro gear... it's their experience, creativity, attitude, and professionalism. We know most of our filmmakers personally, have worked with them in the field, and consider them the best and brightest.
Over 500 filmmakers in 150 countries.
Only the best make the cut.
Meet the Hometeam
We've curated a global community of the best and brightest to lead your production at a local level.
Our Approach
Production has changed for a lot of people. For us, not so much. We're Experts in Remote Production with hard-earned global experience since 2010. Now our two production companies - Co.MISSION & Magic Seed - have united to move production forward in a new age of creative possibility.
A Curated Global Network
We have curated highly-capable teams in major cities from coast-to-coast and around the globe. We can remote stream a Director to guide a local crew, or conduct autonomous shoots remotely with livestream monitoring.
Years of Experience
While Covid is getting everyone to think differently, we’ve been taking a distributed approach to production for the past 10 years. From pre-production thru post, we tap cloud-based tools, next-gen talent, and our hard-earned experience to remotely create content.
Successful Campaigns
We're not newbies to remote production. With our distributed approach to production, we have successfully created original content for well-known channels (NBC, HBO) major global brands (Google, Starbucks, LG) and agencies (Ogilvy, McCann, 72andSunny) and shown them what's possible.
Innovative Approach
We are a team of creative problem solvers. Working with our clients, we design a production approach to fit a project’s brief, budget, and constraints. We employ new tools. New processes. New Talent. We get most excited when we’re doing what’s never been done before.
A Better Production Model
The Old Way
The Hometeam Way
Save Time. Why shoot back-to-back when you can shoot in multiple locations on the same day?
Save Travel Costs. Airfare, Baggage fees, hotels, car rentals, per diem - all things of the past. Put those savings right into higher production value.
Eliminate Travel Days. No more down days getting from A to B. No more travel fatigue. Conduct shoots remotely across the globe without ever stepping onto an airplance.
Lower Risk. Without travel, there are fewer risks and fewer opportunities for exposure.
Tap Into Local Expertise. By working with local crews, you leverage local know-how to find the best support teams, the best locations, the best stories.
Lower Carbon Footprint. Working with local teams eliminates air travel and excess emissions. Hometeam has joined Green The Bid to support a greener approach to production.
An Adaptive Approach
Day-to-Day, Week-to-Week, the ability to safely shoot across the U.S. is shifting. Clients are understandably hesitant to start production under such uncertainty.
With Hometeam, your production can move forward with confidence. Our distributed model means production can be flexible to scale up or down and shift location depending on forces outside your control. You can feel secure knowing that you can lock in your shoots and they’ll move ahead even if the rest of the world is at a standstill.
During Pandemic Lockdown
Our filmmakers have access to their own pro gear and have also provided info on their household co-habitants who can appear as on-camera talent. We have info on their talents and available locations too. Many of our filmmakers even have home studios.
Shifting Local Restrictions
Take your location wherever the risk is lowest. If there’s a Covid flare up in one part of the country, we can crew up somewhere else where production is possible. We can also tap our global network to shoot content abroad when it’s called for.
Open for Business
Covid or not, you may find that remote production simply offers a more streamlined approach to creating content. Hometeam’s global network unlocks creative storytelling on a nationwide and global scale. And without travel costs, budget can be saved or reinvested into production.
Health & Safety
Safety comes first. Creativity a close second.
We consider the health and safety of our crews the priority. In concert with healthcare professionals and film industry guidelines, we've developed an approach that keeps crew and talent safe on set.
A Production Approach for Now
The Hometeam approach is built for health & safety: working with smaller crews, minimizing travel, remote monitoring, and abiding by strict health and safety guidelines.
On Set Safety Protocols
Our on-set health and safety protocols have been developed in partnership with healthcare professionals. And with dozens of production under our belt since 2020, we've gotten into a new rhythm for Covid-safe production.
PPE & Designated Safety Leads
On set, all crew wear PPE and abide by social distancing and hygienic practices. We also assign a designated Safety Lead so that one person is responsible for keeping an eye on health so our crew can focus on creativity.
Let Us Coordinate Testing
Over dozens of productions, we've developed the best protocol to get crew tested in a timely way. We rely either on local PCR testing clinics or mail-in tests depending on timing and logitical constraints. Rest assured our crew will arrive Covid-safe and ready to shoot.
About Us
Nobody has seen it all, but we come pretty damn close.
Hometeam is a partnership between Co.MISSION Content Group and Magic Seed Productions. Our production companies united to bring together 10+ years of remote production experience and offer a smart solution during challenging times.
Our careers began in the field. As Field Producers and DPs traveling the globe with Pelican Cases in tow. We've shot TV, directed commercials, produced documentaries. Now we're turning that hard-earned experience and love of storytelling into a better model for crew and client alike.
We join your team as creative partners to understand your creative goals and production constraints and then custom-build a production solution that taps our global crew network with results beyond expectation.
Our clients are TV networks, production companies, ad agencies, brands, and music labels.
Here's how we translate their creative vision into seamless remote production.
01.
Shape the Approach
Working with our clients, our Hometeam Creative Producers will absorb the goals of the campaign, subject stories, locations and production constraints and then shape a creative approach to capture content in the most efficient way with the right Hometeam crews and filmmaking tools.
02.
Curate the Crew
Based on your creative, your subjects and their locations, our producers will search our network of Hometeam filmmakers to locate the best-suited crews to capture content locally on time and within budget… each with consistent gear, styles, and levels of experience.
03.
Create the Shoot Playbook
In pre-production, our Producers will conduct subject pre-interviews and create shooter Playbooks - storyboards, style guides, camera specs and extensive shot lists - which will guide our local Hometeam filmmakers.
04.
Execute Remotely
Without the need to travel, our local Hometeam filmmakers will capture subject stories. Crews will follow our Playbook and key interviews will be conducted in-person or remotely by a director. Whether a client wants to monitor every shot, or just conduct a remote interview, we’ll provide a remote video village to tune in.
05.
Footage Delivery & Post
All crews will work with similar or same cameras and follow exact shooting specs to capture consistent quality of footage. We coordinate with your post team to ensure that files will be meticulously organized and delivered by hard drive in a timely manner.
Hometeam also often handles post-production editorial and finishing. We're happy to deliver a finished video and cutdowns to take it all the way to completion.
We're happy to help. Just holler!
Reach out to our leadership team directly and let's set up a video chat.
hello@wearehometeam.com
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