Work with Cochran Films
Every opportunity to work with Cochran Films is posted on Creator Collective. Join there to see the live board and to apply. Then tell the studio your role, your city, and when you can work. This page does not keep a second job list.
Create your account. The job board, the community, and the tools behind a booked month all start there.
Join Creator CollectiveStudios and creators post roles in one room. Cochran Films uses that room too. Apply there, not from a list on this page.
Open the job boardThe form is how Cochran Films learns who is available. A quiet day on the board does not close the roster.
Fill in the rosterLoading open roles from Creator Collective.
Share your name, email, city, role, portfolio, and when you can work.
You are on the list
A note is on its way to the email you gave. If a job fits, that is where we write.
Start here
Three questions. Your answers stay on this device and highlight the track as you scroll.
The spine
Eight stages. Each one gives you a free resource, a tool, and a door into Backend Blueprint.
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Learn the picture before you chase the invoice. A client can feel when the basics are missing.
02
Buy the tool that is failing a real job. Ignore the rest until then.
03
Show finished jobs a buyer can compare. A pretty frame is not a body of work.
04
An LLC, a bank account, and a contract tell a client the relationship can survive a problem.
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Price the finished job. The number has to cover the work, the tax, and the month after the shoot.
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First clients live in rooms that already need pictures. One offer, one niche, one next step.
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The job is not done when you stop recording. It is done when the client can open the files.
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A new lead is expensive. A client who already trusts the work will hire again if the care does not drop.
The bar
Cut The highlight that only proves you can hold a camera. Gear shots. Your name on every frame. Music over a job that has no client.
Leave A start, a middle, and a finish. The work a buyer can compare. The Cochran Films portfolio is that kind of finished work.
Three lanes
Videography, editing, and photography. Learn the shot, the grade, and the still that can stand alone.
SD first, shoot secondStay focused, not distractedColor grading, explained
GitHub is how a team shares the work. Vercel is how it goes live. JSON is how the content stays editable. Paths from here: frontend, content modeled as data, deployment, and automation.
Web development for creative brandsWorkflow automationSystems that scale
Pricing, clients, and the company around the craft. This is the lane that turns a busy month into a practice.
From yes to again
Pitch, quote, contract, deposit, shoot, deliver, review, rebook. Skip a step and the next client feels it.
One offer for one kind of room. Say what done looks like.
Creator Collective writes the quote as an estimate the client can accept. Include prep, grade, revisions, and delivery.
Both sides sign inside Creator Collective. A signed agreement beats a handshake you cannot explain later.
Creator Collective collects the deposit. Work starts when that money has moved. A date without a deposit is a maybe.
Show up with a plan, a backup, and the kit the room actually needs.
This is where professionals hand off footage. Name the files and give a link the client can open. Cochran Films uses Bizzi Cloud for that handoff.
Ask what they will use next. A review is the start of the next job, not a survey.
Put the next date on the calendar before the files are old news.
Inside Creator Collective
Three working rooms from the product. Click a tool in the frame to open it.
Invoicing
Portfolio
Community
On paper
Cochran Films LLC was formed online through the Georgia Secretary of State. The filing fee was $100. It was filed December 17, 2024. The certificate was issued December 26, 2024.
This is not legal, tax, or financial advice.
A floor, not a market price
Your expenses and your income goal, after a set aside for tax and savings. No slider. No suggested price.
First clients
One approach for each room. The full scripts are inside Backend Blueprint.
Offer a Sunday highlight and a clean archive of the message. Ask who already posts the service.
Film one room and offer a recap the promoter can post the next morning.
Shoot the dish and the room. Ask which night is already full.
One listing film that follows the path a buyer walks. Ask who is listing this month.
Document the people the mission serves. Ask which funder meeting is next.
Film the chair and the conversation. Ask which Saturday is busiest.
What we actually run
Lived, not theoretical
One job
July 2021 to January 2022. Videographer for the Andre Dickens mayoral campaign in Atlanta. The delivery was promotional films and an archive of the race.
They booked the studio again for the Mayor Andre Dickens Inaugural Ball. That delivery was an instant print experience for guests, civic leaders, and community partners.
$75,000 raised toward a $100,000 goal
That number is The RICE Way Challenge for the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs. Community storytelling helped raise it for Black owned businesses. It is campaign money, not a day rate. The rate floor calculator is still the floor.
Creator Collective
Business films from the Creator Collective channel. Focus the player, then use the arrow keys.
Questions
Learn the picture first, then show finished work a buyer in Atlanta or Douglasville can compare. Churches, venues, restaurants, real estate, nonprofits, and barbershops are the rooms that already need a videographer. This page walks that path. Backend Blueprint holds the longer scripts.
A booking is a yes that survives the quote, the contract, the deposit, the shoot, and the delivery. Skip one of those and the next client feels it. Follow the eight stages on this page, then join Creator Collective so the quote, the contract, and the deposit live in one place.
Start with a minimum day rate, not a guess. Add monthly business expenses to the personal income you need. Divide by what remains after a tax and savings set aside. Then divide by the days you can truly bill. Use the rate floor calculator on this page. Revenue is not profit.
Cochran Films LLC was formed online through the Georgia Secretary of State for $100. The filing date was December 17, 2024. The certificate was issued December 26, 2024. File on the official Georgia Secretary of State site. This is not legal advice.
After the state accepts the company, request an employer identification number from the IRS. Use the official IRS application. Banks and clients use that number to see the business as its own entity. This is not tax advice.
Add your monthly business expenses to the personal income you need. Divide by what remains after a tax and savings set aside. Then divide by the days you can truly bill. The result is a minimum day rate, not a market price. Revenue is not profit.
Start with rooms that already book creators: churches, venues, restaurants, real estate, nonprofits, and barbershops. One clear offer beats a general reel. The full scripts are inside Backend Blueprint.
Three pieces. Each one under a minute. Each one a job a stranger could hire, such as a church, a room, a dish, a listing, or a shop. Cut the highlight that only proves you can hold a camera, the gear shots, your name on every frame, and music over a job that has no client. Leave a start, a middle, and a finish a buyer can compare.
Name the files, keep the date you promised, and give the client a link they can open without texting you. Bizzi Cloud is how Cochran Films hands footage to clients.
Join Creator Collective first. That is where every opportunity is posted, including work with Cochran Films. Then use the roster form at the top of this page with your name, email, city, role, portfolio, and availability. We read the reel. We book from this list when a job fits. Every open role still lives on Creator Collective. This page does not list studio jobs.
Use the room that matches the problem
Three rooms, side by side. Community, file transfer, and the deeper guide.
Community
The business toolkit for creators who want clients, systems, and a practice that lasts.
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Delivery
The file transfer system for handing footage to a client without a mystery folder.
Visit Bizzi Cloud
Guide
The PDF is free after you join. Formation, pricing, outreach scripts, and the systems behind a booked creator.
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