Creative studio services, Sydney
Full-service production
From first conversation to final cut, we handle the whole thing. Or just the parts you need.
What we do
Nose-to-tail production
Creative Strategy & Direction
Good production starts with clear thinking. That means understanding the brand, the audience, and what you want the work to do, before anyone picks up a camera.
Film & Video Production
Commercial and corporate video, multi-camera direction, event coverage, and film production. The right DOP, the right lighting and the right approach, put together around what the job needs.
Commercial Photography
Corporate, event, lifestyle, architecture, and product. We bring a considered eye and a shoot-day manner that puts people at ease fast.
Design & Animation
Brand identity, graphic design, title and logo animation, motion graphics, and print. The visual layer that keeps a campaign looking like one campaign.
Post-Production
Editing across commercial, long-form, and social formats. Colour grading, sound design, music composition, and captioning. Senior editors who know how to take direction and still turn in something worth watching.
Podcast & Vodcast
Recording, engineering, editing, and series production in a sound-treated suite in Crows Nest. Full vodcast setup, multi-episode runs, the lot. If you've been meaning to start a show, this is the space to do it in.
Our full capabilities
Agree on the brief and the budget, and we'll build the right team around it, pulling the talent each job needs from our extended roster. Everything below is on the table.
Strategy & Direction
Campaign concept & strategy
Brand strategy & positioning
Art direction
Copywriting & scripting
Storyboarding & shot lists
Creative planning sessions
Media strategy
Stills & Film
Commercial photography
Corporate photography
Video production & direction
DOP & cinematography
Multi-camera productions
Drone film & aerial
Event photography & video
Lifestyle & product
Architecture & interiors
Set design & styling
Design & Motion
Brand identity & graphic design
Title & logo animation
Motion graphics
Digital design
Print design & production
Illustration
Post & Audio
Commercial editing
Long-form & short-form
Social cutdowns
Colour grading
Sound design & audio
Music composition
Captioning
Edit supervision
Podcast recording & editing
Vodcast production
Production
Producing & production management
Line producing & budgeting
Casting & talent
Location scouting & permits
Crewing & equipment
Scheduling & call sheets
On-set coordination
Production facilitation
A Sydney base for visiting productions
Citadel is built to run a production end to end for crews coming through Sydney. Purpose-built studios, sound-treated spaces, edit suites, and a crew we can scale to the job.
It also works as a base for your people: room to set up, cast talent, and run wardrobe, all in one building. We handle the on-the-ground logistics for interstate and international shoots, crew, equipment, permits, and the coordination that keeps a shoot day on track.
Current Packages
Every project is different. These figures give you a realistic starting point, but the best way to get an accurate scope is to have a conversation.
Half-day stills
From A$1,500
One photographer, one location. Headshots, product, lifestyle.
From A$6,500
Full production
One day of coverage. Video and stills, one hero edit, social cutdowns.
Entry-level production
From A$10,500
Multi-day or multi-deliverable. Strategy, shoot, post, and a full social suite.
Campaign-level
From A$20,000
End-to-end creative: strategy, design, multi-format production and rollout.
Process
How We Work
Round table
We get in a room with you. Goals, ambitions, what good looks like for this job. No slide decks at this stage, just a proper chat.
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Workshop & scope
We map out the direction, the deliverables, the timeline, and the budget. You leave knowing exactly what you're getting.
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Assemble the crew
We put together the right people for the job: directors, photographers, editors and producers, pulled from our extended roster.
03
Produce
Shoot, design, animate, edit. Everything under one roof in Crows Nest, on location, or both.
04
Deliver & Refine
Final cuts, review rounds, social cutdowns and archiving, then we hand everything over.
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Common questions
If something isn't covered here, the easiest thing is to get in touch. Most questions are better answered in a conversation anyway.
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The ranges on our services page are starting points. What a project costs depends on how many shoot days, how many deliverables, and how much post is involved. The clearest way to get an accurate number is to have a conversation first. We'll tell you what's realistic and where you might need to adjust scope.
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Either. Some clients come to us for end-to-end production, from concept through to final delivery. Others have an internal team or agency partner and just need us for shoot day, post, or a specific discipline. We'll scope whatever is useful and leave the rest to you.
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It starts with a round table conversation about goals, creative direction and what good looks like for this job. From there we scope it, assemble the right crew, produce the work, and hand it over. Jennifer, our Head of Production, is the main point of contact from kickoff through to delivery. You won't be passed around.
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Two rounds of revisions are standard across most deliverables. We find that's enough to get to a finished result without the process dragging out. If a project needs more rounds, usually because the brief changed along the way, we'll flag it early and work out the best approach.
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You do. On delivery, all final files are yours. Raw footage and project files can be archived and handed over on request. We'd just agree on that as part of the scope so it's factored in from the beginning.
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Yes. We often come in as the production arm for agencies who have the strategy and creative direction sorted but need experienced hands to execute it. We're comfortable working to a brief, taking direction from another creative lead, and fitting into an existing team structure.
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For a straightforward shoot day, two to three weeks is usually enough. Larger productions with multiple shoot days, complex locations, or talent coordination need more runway, and four to six weeks gives us time to scope, crew up, and prep properly. For time-sensitive jobs, talk to us and we'll tell you honestly what's achievable.
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Both. Our base in Crows Nest has a sound-treated studio with a corner cyclorama, professional lighting grid, podcast and edit suite, and lifestyle spaces across seven rooms. We also shoot extensively on location across Sydney and can travel where the brief calls for it.
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Yes, and we'd recommend scoping them in from the start rather than treating them as an afterthought. Shooting with social formats in mind means you get content that was designed for those placements, rather than a cropped version of the hero edit.
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Both. Our podcast and vodcast suite in Crows Nest is set up for regular series. We handle the recording, audio engineering, editing, and delivery on whatever cadence works for you. One-off episodes are welcome too, and there's no minimum commitment.
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