Tom Mackellar.
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Product ads, websites and logos.

Ads from £100, sites from £100, identity from £150. Every price is on the page, and you pay once.

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Priced by length, not by quote.

Three lengths, three prices, and that is the price, not a starting point I revise upwards once you have told me about your business. Each one is a finished graded master with the social cuts, paid once, no retainer.

Five seconds

£100

One idea, one product, one look. A product-page loop, a story ad, a launch teaser. One round of changes.

The one I’d suggest

Ten seconds

£200

Room for a sequence rather than a single moment: several shots cut together, with a beginning and an end. Three rounds of changes.

Fifteen seconds

£250

The full length a pre-roll or a paid social slot will take, and as many shots as the idea needs. Changes until it is right.

Included in all three

The master, the cuts, and the sign-off before any of it

You approve the look scene by scene before anything is produced. You get back a cut and graded master, 4K where the placement supports it, plus the 16:9, 9:16, square and 4:5 versions. Nothing on that list is quoted separately.

What you get, in full

These are my prices while I build up a body of client work, and they go up once it is built.

How this actually works

Generation is the camera. I’m the director.

Every piece runs through eight stages, and a machine makes pictures at two of them: the stills you sign off, and the shots built to match them. The other six are the research, the brief, the storyboard, the previz, the post and the delivery, including frames retouched by hand in Photoshop and the whole thing cut and graded in DaVinci Resolve. That is why an ad costs £100 instead of the several thousand a shoot would, and days instead of weeks. Which tools do what is in the FAQ.

Brief → look you sign off → production → cut & grade
Tom Mackellar, photographed in a studio against a neutral grey background under soft light.
Who you would be working with

I’m Tom Mackellar. I run the whole thing myself, one project at a time, so there is nobody to hand it on to and nothing waiting on anyone else.

More about how I work

Everything here is shown start to finish and labelled for what it is. I have not made an ad for a paying client yet. Nothing is padded and nothing is dressed up as a commission it wasn’t, least of all the Pepsi one, which no part of PepsiCo has ever asked for or seen.

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Tell me what you need and when.

Start a project

Ads from £100, sites from £100, identity from £150. Paid once, and that is the whole of it.