Imagine Art Films  ·  Ad films for home service businesses

Most local ads look local.
Yours can look like a national brand.

We produce 30-second commercials with the look, the grade and the score of a real film. No crew, no location fee, no shoot day. Ten days, from $1,450.

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★★★★★  4.9/5  ·  8,200+ filmmakers trained by the same studio
25 years in visual storytelling
Delivered in 10 days
From $1,450 USD
You own the footage
The work

Three trades. Three spots. Same studio.

Every spot is built from your actual business: your trucks, your service area, your offer. We design the look, shoot it frame by frame, then grade, score and mix it the way a commercial gets finished.

Video slot 01 · HVAC

Furnace season, 30 seconds

Cold open, the house, the fix · built for Meta and YouTube

Video slot 02 · Pool

Backyard, golden hour

Transformation spot · vertical and square cuts included

Video slot 03 · Roofing

Storm to finished roof

Before and after reveal · aerial-style opening

More work on the studio channel: youtube.com/@ImagineArtFilms

The problem

Your ad budget is fine. Your ad is the problem.

You already put real money through Meta and Google every month. That money buys impressions. What it buys those impressions with is usually a phone clip of a van, a stock photo with a phone number on it, or a slideshow a tool generated in four seconds.

The spend is real. The creative is the part nobody fixed, because a proper commercial has always meant a crew, a location, a shoot day and $8,000 you were never going to approve for one 30-second test.

  • You are paying national prices for attention and showing local-looking work.
  • Your competitor three towns over has the identical stock footage.
  • One ad has to run all year because a second one costs as much as the first.
  • The last quote you got for a real commercial started at five figures.
What a 30-second spot costs
  • Local production house: $3,000 to $15,000
  • Scripted brand video: from $8,000
  • Testimonial or doc-style: from $4,000
  • Stock-footage edit: from $3,750
What it costs here
  • $1,450 for one finished spot
  • $3,900 for a three-spot campaign
  • Ten days, not ten weeks
  • Every aspect ratio, included
The shift

What changes the week a real ad exists.

Before
  • Your ad looks like every other contractor's ad.
  • You compete on price because nothing else separates you.
  • One tired creative runs for twelve months.
  • Seasonal pushes reuse last year's footage.
After
  • People stop scrolling because it looks like a brand.
  • You compete on trust, and trust is not a discount.
  • Fresh creative every season, at a price that allows it.
  • The same budget works harder without spending a dollar more.
How it works

Four steps. No crew, no shoot day, no permits.

01 · ONE SHORT CALL

Fifteen minutes. Your service area, your best job, your offer, and the one thing customers always say about you. That is the whole brief.

02 · WE DESIGN THE LOOK

Brand palette, locations, crew and equipment, built as a consistent set so every shot looks like it came from the same shoot, because it did.

03 · SHOOT AND FINISH

Shot by shot, then edited, graded, scored and mixed. Voice-over where the spot needs it. Two revision rounds are included.

04 · YOU OWN IT

Master files in every aspect ratio, yours outright. Run it on Meta, YouTube, TikTok, your website, local TV, wherever it helps.

The part that makes it work

We build the world, you bring the people. Send us thirty seconds of phone footage of you and your crew, and we cut it into the spot. Viewers get a real face they can trust, you get a commercial that looks like it cost twenty times what it did, and nothing in the ad pretends to be something it is not.

Pricing

Fixed scope. Fixed price. No hourly meter.

You know the number before we start. Half on booking, half on delivery.

The Proof
$1,450 USD
One 30-second spot
  • One concept, fully produced
  • Grade, score and sound mix
  • 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 cuts
  • Two revision rounds
  • Delivered in 10 days
  • Full ownership of the master
Start here
MOST BOOKED
The Season
$3,900 USD
Three spots, one campaign
  • Three 30-second spots on one theme
  • Brand and character kit built once, reused
  • Grade, score and sound mix on each
  • Every aspect ratio, plus 15-second cutdowns
  • Two revision rounds per spot
  • Delivered in 3 weeks
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The Year
$1,900 USD / month
Two spots every month
  • Two new 30-second spots monthly
  • Quarterly refresh of the look
  • Priority turnaround
  • Performance review call each month
  • Six-month minimum
  • Cancel with 30 days after that
Discuss scope
Optional add-on

Want us to run it too?

Campaign management on Meta and YouTube: audience build, launch, weekly optimisation and a monthly report. Three-month minimum. Entirely optional, and if you already have an agency we will simply hand them the files.

$1,500 / month

Plus 10% of ad spend above $10,000/month.
Your ad budget stays in your own account.

Add campaign management

Multi-location and franchise groups: one master spot, up to ten localised versions, from $9,500. Prices in US dollars. Or book a call.

Standing

Judged by filmmakers, not by algorithms.

Alongside commissioned work, Imagine Art Films runs an 8,200-member filmmaking community and a 168,000-subscriber channel. These are working filmmakers describing the craft standard they found here.

“Imagine Art Films brings together filmmakers who are serious about cinematic standards, not just output volume. Being around people who put quality and storytelling above trends makes a real difference.”

Laura W.Filmmaker, Canada

“What really makes the difference is the level of detail and care put into every stage of the process. That attention to detail is what transforms an idea into professional, polished content.”

Guillermo C.AI producer and filmmaker, Canada

“A rare place where filmmaking is treated as a craft. The people behind it take the work seriously. No shortcuts, no trend-chasing.”

Luc L.Filmmaker, Montreal
25
Years in visual storytelling
168K
YouTube subscribers
8,200+
Filmmakers trained
4.9
Average member rating
Who makes it

Daniel Côté

Filmmaker, editor and entrepreneur with over 25 years in visual storytelling. He began building structured production workflows for this kind of work early, long before most of the industry took it seriously, and now leads a global community of 8,200 creators.

Your spot is directed, cut, graded and mixed by someone who was finishing films for two decades before any of these tools existed. That is the difference between an ad that looks generated and one that looks made.

Based in Montreal. Works in English and French. Clients across North America.

Daniel Côté
Before you ask

The questions owners actually have.

Is this AI, and will my customers be able to tell?

Yes, we use generative tools, the same way every studio now uses digital cameras and colour grading. What customers react badly to is not AI, it is bad craft: stiff movement, robotic voices, no emotion. That is a finishing problem, and finishing is what this studio has done for 25 years. We also recommend cutting in real phone footage of you and your crew, which gives the spot a real face and keeps it well inside platform disclosure rules.

What do you actually need from me?

Fifteen minutes on a call, your logo, your service area and your current offer. If you have photos of finished jobs, send them. If you can film thirty seconds of yourself on a phone, even better. That is genuinely it. No shoot day, no scheduling around your crew.

Do I own the ad?

Entirely. You receive the master files in every aspect ratio and you can run them anywhere, forever, including local TV. There is no licence to renew and no usage window.

Do you run the ads for me?

Only if you want us to. The spot is sold on its own, and plenty of clients hand it straight to the agency they already use. If you would rather we handled placement, campaign management is $1,500 a month plus 10% of ad spend above $10,000, with a three-month minimum. Your ad budget always stays in your own account.

How fast is it, really?

Ten days for a single spot, three weeks for a three-spot campaign, from the day we have your brief. If you have a season starting, say so on the form and we will tell you honestly whether it fits.

What if I do not like it?

Two revision rounds are built into every project, and we agree the concept in writing before a frame is made, so surprises are rare. If the first cut misses, we fix it. Further rounds beyond the two are $250 each.

Which trades do you work with?

Most of our work is HVAC, pool service and installation, roofing, pest control, water damage restoration, landscaping and remodelling. If your business sells something a customer can see the result of, it films well. If you are not sure, ask.

Can we start small?

Yes, and most people should. The Proof at $1,450 exists so you can see how we work on your own business before committing to a campaign. It credits toward a larger package if you go further within ninety days.

Start here

Tell us about your business.

Two minutes to fill in. We reply within two business days with a concept and a number, or with an honest reason it is not a fit.

No newsletter, no sequence, no sales call unless you ask for one. We read every submission personally and reply by email.

Your competitor's ad is not better. It is just louder.

The same budget, behind work that looks like it belongs on television, is the cheapest advantage available to a local business right now.

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