Question 1

Are you licensed and insured to work on an active job site?

Accepted Answer

Yes. 850 Media Productions LLC is a Florida limited liability company, filed September 14, 2022, based in Crawfordville in Wakulla County. Kyle Gibbs holds an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate for commercial drone operations. Coverage is $1 million general liability plus a separate $2 million aerial liability policy with hull coverage on the scheduled aircraft. The general liability policy carries a blanket additional insured endorsement. The aerial certificate names your company as additional insured with waiver of subrogation and primary and non-contributory wording, which is what most commercial and government contracts ask for. Certificates go out on request, usually the same day. Every FPV flight runs with a dedicated visual observer as a second crew member. Send your insurance exhibit before the job and you will get a straight yes or no on whether we meet it. *Internal note, do not publish: there is no errors and omissions, no inland marine equipment coverage, no workers compensation, and no commercial auto. If a vendor exhibit demands those, say so rather than working around it.* ---

Question 2

How far do you travel, and how is travel billed?

Accepted Answer

Home base is Crawfordville in Wakulla County. The regular service area is Tallahassee, Wakulla and the Big Bend, Panama City, Port St. Joe and the Forgotten Coast, Apalachicola and Franklin County, Destin and 30A, plus Thomasville, Moultrie and Bainbridge in South Georgia. Statewide Florida, Southeast, and national jobs are all taken, quoted like any other project. Travel is passed through at cost and shown as its own line, never folded into the production fee: mileage, lodging, and any added crew at what they actually cost. No markup games. You see every travel line before the shoot, not after it. ---

Question 3

How fast do we get the finished video?

Accepted Answer

Same-day quick cuts are available for social when a job needs it, and that is not a theoretical offer. The Lake Park demolition for JCI Contractors was shot and delivered the same day, because a wall coming down does not wait for an edit schedule. Full edited deliverables are typically inside two weeks. Whatever the date is, it goes in the written scope before anyone picks up a camera, so it is a commitment rather than an estimate. If your milestone has a hard date, say so up front and it gets built into the schedule. ---

Question 4

Who owns the footage?

Accepted Answer

You do. Final deliverables and the underlying raw footage are yours. There is no licensing window, no usage tier, and no fee to use your own material again later. We archive everything on our end, so you can come back in two years and pull a clip from a job that finished long ago. For retainer clients this is the part that compounds: you are building an owned footage library, not renting access to one. ---

Question 5

Does drone work need airspace approval?

Accepted Answer

Usually not here, and we find out before quoting rather than on the morning of the shoot. All of Wakulla County is Class G airspace at or below 400 feet, so no authorization is required. Much of the North Florida service area is the same. Near controlled fields, including Tallahassee International, we file LAANC authorizations in advance. Airspace class is only half of it. We also check for national security flight restrictions, temporary restrictions, and land rules that no sectional chart shows, such as the Bradwell Bay Wilderness inside the Apalachicola National Forest, where a drone cannot legally launch or land at all. Send the address and you will get an answer on what can fly there. ---

Question 6

What does a construction progress package cost to run?

Accepted Answer

One fixed number for the whole job, agreed in writing before anyone picks up a camera, with editing included. No hourly meter and no surprise line items. Recurring documentation moves to a monthly or quarterly block: a set number of shoot days, an agreed count of finished pieces and formats, and priority on the calendar so coverage exists when a milestone happens instead of being scrambled for afterward. Travel, added crew, and licensed music are passed through at cost as their own lines so you can see what you are paying for. Tell us what you are building, which milestones matter, and how often you need something to post. A fixed number comes back inside a business day. ---

Question 7

Can you work around an active job site without slowing us down?

Accepted Answer

That is the normal condition, not the exception. Job sites keep running, ceremonies start on time, and nobody waits on a film crew. Shooting happens on your schedule, including before sunrise and inside active work zones. Your site rules govern: safety brief, required PPE, escort where you want one, and staying out of the critical path and off the crane's radius. Shipyard work at Eastern Shipbuilding runs on the yard's schedule with security clearance and yard rules, and construction documentation for JCI Contractors has run on live sites since 2025. Every job carries redundant media and backup audio, because a second pass at a concrete pour or a demolition does not exist. *Internal note: no OSHA 10 or 30 card appears in any source file. If a client asks for one specifically, answer honestly rather than implying it.* ---

Question 8

How does review and revision work?

Accepted Answer

The first cut arrives at roughly eighty percent, deliberately. You review it on a link where you can pin a comment to the exact second you are talking about, which is faster and less ambiguous than an email describing a moment at "around the middle." Notes come back once, and they get folded into the final pass. There are no open-ended revision loops billed by the hour, and no per-round charges appearing after the fact. If the scope genuinely changes, that is a new conversation with a new number, agreed before the work happens. ---

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