Philadelphia video production company
Live-action video, finished with motion graphics and animation.
Captured across the tri-state area by a Mid-Atlantic Emmy-winning creative studio.
Shoots for Queens High School of Teaching, Haverford College and Penn GSE
Trusted by Haverford College, the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, AccessLex and more
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Live action, finished by an animation studio
Motifmotion is a full-service video production company in Philadelphia that started in animation. A Motifmotion crew member captures the footage on location, and we finish it in post-production with titles, illustration and animated diagrams made for your story, not dropped in from a template.
That approach earned a Mid-Atlantic Emmy for the civic education series we produced for PBS-WHYY, and it works just as well for real people and real places. For projects that don't need a camera at all, see our Philadelphia animation studio.
- Kinetic titles and lower thirds
- Animated maps, data and diagrams
- Illustration layered over footage
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AccessLex Institute, JD Edge. A law school readiness course recorded on a clean white set: a presenter on camera, with animation beside every key idea, across 27 episodes.
JD Edge: Welcome Video
Campus and facility videos
A building sells itself when people can walk through it first. Motifmotion captures campuses, schools, offices and facilities, inside and from the air, for admissions, recruiting, leasing and fundraising. Video production for schools and universities is a large part of this work, like the campus overview we produced for Queens High School of Teaching in New York City. Each visit is planned room by room in pre-production, so the day on site covers every space you want to show.
Corporate video production in Philadelphia
Interviews, testimonials, leadership messages and recruiting videos, each built around one message. We record the people who carry it, then add titles and visuals where an idea is easier to show than to say, as in this program story for Penn GSE.
The same approach works for brand and marketing content: commercial spots, campaign cuts for social media, and product stories for your website. For fully animated formats, see corporate video production.
Event video production
Orientations, conferences, lectures and galas, captured for highlight reels and full recordings. For Haverford College's Customs orientation, that meant the crowd, the traditions and the students who lead it, cut into one short documentary-style story.
No shoot needed: stock and archival footage
Not every video needs a crew. When budget or schedule rules out a shoot, Motifmotion builds the piece from licensed stock or your own archival footage, then gives it the same edit, visuals and sound as a custom production. It's a practical route for brand content, social media campaigns and pieces needed on a tighter schedule.
Our video production process in Philadelphia
Every project moves through the same five phases. Timing depends on production days, locations and review rounds.
Where we film
We work anywhere within about a three-hour drive of Philadelphia: the city and its suburbs, South Jersey, Princeton and Central Jersey, Wilmington and the rest of Delaware, the Lehigh Valley, Lancaster and Harrisburg, Baltimore and New York City. If you need a New Jersey video production company or video production in Delaware, the same crew and creative process cover you.
More of our live-action work, from campus films to presenter-led training videos.
Queens High School of Teaching: campus overview
Haverford College: Customs orientation
Penn GSE: education entrepreneurship
Point of Contact training: a presenter-led tutorial
Lehigh University: COVID-19 campus protocol
Lehigh University: What is a Scutoid?
Philadelphia video production FAQ
It depends on pre-production and scripting, the number of production days, locations and travel, and how much editing, graphics or animation the video needs. Motifmotion quotes each project after a first conversation about those.
Yes. We work anywhere within about a three-hour drive, including New Jersey, Delaware, the Lehigh Valley, Baltimore and New York City.
A Motifmotion crew member records on location or on a set, and Motifmotion then edits, designs and finishes the video.
Yes. That's what Motifmotion is built for. Titles, maps, data, diagrams and animated scenes are designed for your story, as in the JD Edge series for AccessLex.
Yes. When a shoot isn't practical, we build the video from licensed stock or your archival footage and finish it with the same edit, graphics and sound.
Companies, universities, hospitals and nonprofits, including the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Lehigh University and AccessLex Institute.
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Planning a shoot in Philadelphia?
Tell us what you need filmed and where. Reach us in a few different ways:
We’ll work with you to understand your objectives, how we can provide assistance and we’ll outline the next steps.