Post-production consultancy · Luxury & Beauty · Paris
Everything that makes the film is decided after the shoot: the edit, the grade, the retouch, VFX, 3D, down to the last file delivered. We run that chain in Paris on behalf of international brands and their agencies, from PPM to delivery.
The further down the chain a change lands, the more it costs and the less room is left to absorb it.
Why Paris
Paris post-production has spent decades on fragrance, skincare and make-up films for the houses that define the category. Skin, glass, liquid, gold: its retouchers and colourists know how a flacon should catch the light, because they have been asked a thousand times.
Rates, availability and who is genuinely right for skin, for liquid, for a glass flacon are known inside the city, not from a rate card. We tender on that knowledge, in French, before anyone quotes you.
We sit in on grading and review sessions in Paris, so your team doesn’t have to fly in for every one. When you want to be there, we set up live remote sessions and frame-accurate review.
French studios, French payment terms and French calendars never reach your desk.
Edit, grade, retouch, VFX and 3D run in Paris studios chosen for the film in hand. We select them, brief them and hold them to the brief.
Versions, ratios and deliverables checked against your list, not the supplier’s. One accountable line from the first call to the final file.
One point of contact. You brief in English, we run Paris.
What goes wrong
From the first cut to the last reframe, each step is defensible on its own. It’s the cumulative drift that isn’t, and nobody follows the line from end to end.
The real cost of a campaign is set when the deliverables schedule is written, not at the first quote. By the time the full list arrives, the room to negotiate has gone.
Your team ends up ruling on conform, colour science or versioning questions that should never reach them. Without an independent voice, the referee is also the supplier.
Scope
Engagement
For agencies and brands based outside France. We act as your post-production company in Paris: we select and contract the studios, run the sessions and deliver the masters. You deal with one producer, in English, from brief to delivery.
Before the tender, while everything is still negotiable. We establish the real list of deliverables, flag what will be expensive and why, and set the specs suppliers will be held to.
From PPM to the last master, on a set of checkpoints agreed at signature: specs, supplier choice, conform review, grade review, master compliance. Between checkpoints, the chain runs without us, and that’s the point.
For a house with several launches a year. A shared post-production doctrine, stable specs, a qualified panel of Paris studios, so the next campaign doesn’t start from zero.
You contract directly with the studios, and the delivery obligation stays with them. We are paid a fee for the advice alone: we scope, recommend, arbitrate and check, but we sign no supplier contract and we do not answer for the result. Our recommendation depends on no supplier, and no studio pays us a commission.
We hold the post-production budget, contract the studios and deliver the masters, and here we answer for the result. One quote, one accountable party, the execution risk on our side, and a panel of Paris post houses we have qualified ourselves and work with regularly. Our margin is stated in the quote.
The mode is agreed at the start of the engagement, never midway. Every engagement is priced on its scope and its risk, never on a day count.
Experience
La Manufacture is Patrick Mazeirat: twenty years of advertising post-production inside Paris studios, the last seven exclusively in the service of luxury and beauty houses.
International launches, demanding creative direction, air dates that don’t move. Those years on the supplier’s side showed us exactly where campaigns lose money and quality. We now sit on the other side of the table: the brand’s.
Contact
Company information
La Manufacture Ltd
Private limited company registered in England and Wales
Company number 16765737
Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden,
London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom
Patrick Mazeirat
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