Ok, this is important.
I have been calling production houses in the Boston area. Basically $500 will not work, at I was told that $3000 may be the cheapest, but I have talked to very top of the line houses, that think they can make a great 3 min film for us.
One production house, Kill Switch Productions
http://www.killswitch.tv/, seems like an amazing place and they've done Emmy award winning documentaries, top of the line music videos, videos for NESN, Fidelity, etc.
The man I talked to was Ian Mcfuller and he didn't think a corporate video would be useful, claiming we don't seem to have enough to sell, at this point. I didn't get to explain that we've done quite a few projects, fundraisers, research grants for lab work for promising things...but he may be right, as we are still just in preliminary stages here at imminst.
Anyway, he explained a Branded Content video with b-roll footage which is a voice over kind of thing with visuals, graphics, and really anything, laid on top of the voice over.
Said it was very effective tool for getting out a one's message.
Another Production house said they work solely with films already processed. So I was thinking Exploring Life Extension has many technical flaws, all of which he assured could be easily fixed.
My best opinion is fixing Exploring Life Extension, would do wonders for our film, and bring it up to professional quality, as Modul.us Studios say they are great at things like color correction, fixing bad audio, including out of sync dubbing, (which our film DOES have.) He said even boom in mic he could fix.