shakalakaa is a corporate video production company in Malaysia making corporate films, ad video, product demonstrations, event coverage and short-form social in-house for listed groups and national brands. Each shoot is planned against the paid-media rotation the footage will feed, and our team produced 2,400+ creative assets in-house in 2025.
Trusted by Malaysian GLCs, listed groups and platforms
Our production team is based in the Klang Valley, so most video production in KL and Selangor is shot within a one-hour radius.
The video production KL brands book from us most often is a brand film or founder interview, cut into short-form versions for paid media.
Corporate video for groups covers launches, ESG and brand films, produced in-house with scripts and approvals built for corporate sign-off.
Separate plans and budgets per brand or unit, run by one accountable team so nothing falls between agencies.
A registered Malaysian company (Plixitt Solutions, BRN 003426311-V) with documentation your procurement and legal teams can review, including how personal data is handled under the PDPA.
One named lead for your account and reporting written for management, not dashboards for their own sake.
Results are reported on the business outcome your team counts: qualified leads, booked consultations, applications or sales, as each of our case studies states.
If your group also operates in Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong or Taiwan, each market gets its own plan and its own pages, never a copy of Malaysia.
A video production company Malaysia brands stay with is usually the one that treats the shoot as inseparable from the paid rotation it will feed.
That is a fair test to apply to us as well as to anyone else.
A single-day shoot in Kuala Lumpur can run from brief to delivery in 2 to 3 weeks when reviews keep to schedule.
We scope shoot days, crew, locations and cutdowns against the paid rotation the footage will feed.
Regulated categories get a pre-shoot claims review against KKM, MDC or Securities Commission guidelines.
We cast talent, handle permits and shoot, mostly within an hour of our Klang Valley base.
Platform-native cuts with captions in English, Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin, plus colour and sound passes.
The schedule follows your review and sign-off rounds, then platform-ready files are delivered.
Founder-led company films, culture and employer-branding videos, and the long-form brand piece a Malaysian business commissions when it wants a considered statement of what it is — shot cinematically, cut for the surface it will run on, and scoped against the paid rotation it will feed.
Explainer video for products that need to be understood before they are bought — SaaS demos for MY B2B accounts, medical-device explainers for aesthetic and dental clinics under KKM and MDC review, interior-design walkthroughs, F&B menu and kitchen-behind-the-scenes video, and property developer walkthroughs for KL and Klang Valley launches.
Interview-led video with real Malaysian customers — the highest-converting corporate video asset a brand can commission when it is done properly, and the fastest to devalue when it is not.
Product launches, dealer conferences, brand activations, retail store openings, medical-conference coverage and industry-event recap video — shot across KL, PJ, Selangor and beyond.
Reels, TikToks and Xiaohongshu notes-format video planned to be re-used inside Meta Ads Malaysia, TikTok and Xiaohongshu rotations. Native vertical framing at shoot rather than crop-in-post. Native captions in English, Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin depending on the audience the footage is scoped for.
Short-form AI generative video for paid rotation — product beauty frames, mood B-roll, hook variants and language-swap cuts — produced in-house against the same paid calendar as the live-action shoot.
Ruby Cell
Studio video and macro photography of a skincare mist device, feeding a three-stage Meta funnel.
Monthly paid revenue
RM 42,000 → RM 186,000 a month
Month 4, after the studio production rollout
From 1.8× on catalogue ads
Return on ad spend (Meta)
From 1.8×
What counts as a conversion: Purchase attributed to Meta (Meta Ads Manager, 7-day click / 1-day view); paid revenue from GA4 and the brand's Shopify store.
UEM Edgenta Berhad
shakalakaa is a registered vendor to UEM Edgenta Berhad, a Bursa Malaysia-listed asset-management and infrastructure-solutions group, and was engaged directly by the group's management to deliver copywriting, corporate page building and design, and video and photography production for the group's sustainability communications programme.
CO₂e per page view
1.85 g → 0.52 g
Average page load time
4.2 s → 1.6 s
Inquiry form conversion rate
0.80% → 3.04%
What counts as a conversion: Figures from the post-launch audit: Website Carbon Calculator and Ecograder (CO₂e), Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix, desktop and mobile average (load time), GA4 form-submission events (conversion rate). A conversion is a submitted inquiry or contact form.
TNB Electron
3D charging-station and bay design, and the launch campaign, for TNB Electron — the EV charging arm of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia's national electricity utility. One modular design kit for the highway and trunk-road network, 80+ 3D assets, and the creative for the public rollout, delivered under registered-vendor status.
Aided brand recall of TNB Electron among Peninsular EV owners
18% → 56%
What counts as a conversion: Sources: TNBX charge point operator registry and highway concessionaire deployment map (locations); an independent Malaysian EV owners brand-tracking study, aided recall, measured within six months of launch (recall); Suruhanjaya Tenaga and Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia technical submission reviews (approvals);
TNB infrastructure PMO tracking and civil-contractor handover milestones (fit-out); TNBX and Go To-U charging telemetry, paid charging sessions, within 90 days of commercial launch (sessions); agency production delivery manifest (assets).
The supporting detail behind each section of this page, by topic. 10 topics
For listed groups, GLCs and institutions, video is usually one of four jobs: a company profile, an ESG or annual-report film, a launch film for a new product or facility, or internal communications for staff.
Where the video is commissioned FROM a KOL or content creator rather than shot by the shakalakaa team, the practice is KOL marketing Malaysia — creator-commissioned content, brand-side scope, usage rights structured for paid amplification.
Corporate video production for Malaysian brands — brand films, product demos, testimonial videos, event coverage and short-form social video — shot across KL, Selangor, Penang and JB.
Ask what would run against the footage in the first thirty days, and ask which parts of the shot list exist because the paid rotation needs them; an answer that treats the shoot as a deliverable on its own tells you which kind of production company you are talking to.
For a large brand the test is volume as much as craft. A corporate video production agency that also runs the paid rotation has to deliver cutdowns, language versions and platform formats at the pace the media plan consumes them;
Where the brand carries a bilingual audience — English-first buyers in KLCC and Mont Kiara, Mandarin-first audiences in Kepong and parts of Cheras, Malay-first across Setapak and Wangsa Maju
— the shot list is built so a single production supplies native-language cutdowns for each, rather than shooting the same brand film three times.
Shot at your premises where possible, in a studio setup where the environment does not serve the product.
We treat the interview as a controlled production, not a "come as you are" recording: pre-interview to identify the two or three moments worth capturing, styled setup at the customer's premises or ours, and an edit that respects the interviewee rather than making them read a script.
Same-day short-form cutdowns for Meta and TikTok come off the same call sheet as the long-form event recap, which saves commissioning a second shoot for social. Event videography is included in the scope by default rather than a separate service line.
Scoped so the paid rotation gets a weekly feed of creative tests without a new shoot day; disclosed as AI-generated where the placement or the regulated vertical requires it.
Shoot days with a Malaysian production crew, native to the market. Director-of-photography-led setups, native-language interviewer where the subject is more comfortable in BM or Mandarin, and a producer on the floor keeping the call sheet honest.
Edit, colour grade, sound mix, titles and lower-thirds, native-language captioning across English, Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin, music licensing, and platform-ready delivery in the ratios and durations the paid rotation actually needs. Two rounds of client revisions are the norm; heavier revision cycles are scoped separately at brief.
Many briefs start as a search for a videographer Malaysia businesses can book for a day. For a single event or a quick product clip, a freelance videographer Malaysia-wide is often the right call, and we will say so.
Where we also run the paid distribution, footage is delivered directly into the ad account with the creative rotation planned in advance. Where the client runs paid elsewhere, files are delivered in the platform-native specifications the placement needs — not "here is a master file, cut it yourself".
Corporate video production in Malaysia covers the films a company uses to explain itself: brand and company profiles, leadership and investor messages, product and service explainers, recruitment and culture films, and event coverage.
For firms that sell to other businesses, see B2B marketing in Malaysia, where corporate video runs against a lead definition agreed with sales.
Each is scripted, shot and edited by our in-house team, with your approvers in the loop.
Published examples: video and photography for UEM Edgenta Berhad's sustainability communications, and event coverage across a 24-month international-school partnership.
It is shot to be approved, with consent-correct imagery throughout and no restricted before-and-after sequences.
One crew plans, shoots and edits, so changes from the clinic’s medical and compliance review are turned around by the people who filmed it. See the rules in aesthetic clinic advertising compliance, monthly content creation and the aesthetic clinic marketing programme.
What the video has to do: explain, persuade or sell, the audience, where it will run, and how success will be judged.
Script, storyboard and shot list built against the placements the footage will feed, so every scene has a job.
Crew, lighting, sound and talent on set, with the shot list checked off as it is captured.
The master edit plus the cut-downs, aspect ratios and caption files each placement needs.
Files delivered in the formats agreed, and performance reviewed against the objective set in the brief.
Agree these points in writing before production starts, with any production partner:
Video production companies in Malaysia differ most on three things: whether the crew is in-house or freelance, whether they also cut versions for paid media, and which large brands they have filmed for.
We set those out side by side in our 2026 comparison of the best video production companies in Malaysia.
Video for an aesthetic clinic is mostly explanation: a practitioner walking through what a treatment involves and who it suits, a consultation from arrival to leaving, the treatment rooms and the team behind them, and short vertical cuts for ads and social.
For Malaysian brands already shooting their own footage — in-house creator, founder-led feed, live-selling host, event recording — we take on the edit alone: platform-native cuts, native captions, colour and sound-mix pass, platform-ready files back.
Video editing service in Malaysia is a competitive market with wide quality variance; we operate it inside our production practice rather than as a freelancer offering, so the edit team knows what the footage will run against.
Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Home turf. Our production team is based in the Klang Valley and the majority of shoots — corporate interviews, product demos, clinic and showroom video, event coverage, F&B and retail — happen inside a one-hour radius.
Office parks in KLCC, Bangsar South, Mont Kiara and Petaling Jaya are familiar location categories; clinic and dental shoots in Bangsar, Damansara Heights and Mont Kiara are handled with the same KKM and MDC compliance discipline our aesthetic clinic and dental clinic practices build into every asset.
We build the compliance review into pre-production rather than fixing it at edit, so a doctor-led explainer, patient testimonial or in-clinic tour comes out publishable rather than needing a re-shoot. Our aesthetic clinic marketing and dental clinic marketing practices publish the underlying discipline in more detail.
Property video is a genuinely different production category — long form, styled set, drone-supplemented in most cases — and the paid rotation it feeds runs across Meta, YouTube and cross-border property portals. See the property marketing practice for the surrounding paid programme.
Interior design video is where cinematography discipline matters most — the difference between a video that reads as premium and one that reads as a real-estate listing is entirely in the shot list, lighting and camera movement, and interior design accounts are one of our deepest vertical specialisations.
See interior design marketing.
Booking interior design photography and video together keeps the portfolio consistent across the website, the ads and the case study — see the interior design case study in Selangor.
F&B production discipline is different again: styled plating, colour-critical grade, and a shot cadence that reads on mute in a scrolling feed. See F&B and restaurant marketing.
This is where the production earns its money. A shoot day that arrived with an ambiguous shot list is a shoot day that will overrun and under-deliver; the discipline of pre-production is what makes a Malaysian production actually cost-efficient on the day.
For event and launch shoots the same crew supplies same-day short-form cutdowns off the wire.
Where the footage has to feed ads, a launch calendar and a website at once — a developer launch, an ID firm's quarterly portfolio, a clinic campaign — a team that plans the shot list against the media plan earns its cost back. That is the job we do.
Video for clinics is a regulated category — KKM, MDC and MMC guidelines shape what can be claimed and what cannot be shown, and before/after content in particular carries specific rules that most freelance shoots ignore.
Launch-day video, unit and show-gallery walkthroughs, developer credentials films, MM2H-scoped video for Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan buyer audiences.
Styled-set walkthroughs, before/after project video, designer-led explainer video and showroom tours across KL and PJ.
ID firms and furniture brands usually need stills from the same site visit, so interior design photography is shot alongside the walkthrough: wide room frames, material and joinery details, and vertical crops for Instagram and Xiaohongshu.
Menu-launch video, kitchen and chef-led content, restaurant ambience and tabletop food video, and short-form vertical content for Xiaohongshu, TikTok and Instagram — the paid rotation that actually drives F&B footfall in KL and PJ.
Founder-led wellness brand video, product-line explainer video and creator-format content for MY beauty and personal-care brands running on Xiaohongshu, TikTok Shop and Shopee LIVE. Regulated where the product carries a health claim; scoped like a clinic shoot in those cases.
Product-focused short-form video for Shopee LIVE, TikTok Shop and Xiaohongshu commerce — the format the platforms genuinely reward, shot for the placement rather than repurposed from a hero brand video. Volume-first production for MY e-commerce brands running weekly content calendars.
Prose is by capability, not by claim: we do not publish client counts or category-specific case-study figures on this page because we do not hold them in a form we would stand behind for public quotation.
Brief, script, shot list built against the paid rotation the footage will feed, location scout, permit and licensing paperwork, talent booking and — for regulated categories — compliance review with the client's legal or clinical lead.
Corporate video production is quoted per scope rather than published as a rate card — every Malaysian brief carries a different combination of shoot days, crew size, location count, post-production complexity and delivery cadence.
What drives cost is straightforward: how many shoot days the shot list needs, whether the crew travels beyond the Klang Valley, how many talent or interview subjects are involved, how heavy the edit and motion-graphics load is, and how many platform-native cutdowns come out of a single production day.
Timelines depend more on approvals than production. A single-day corporate shoot in Kuala Lumpur can be pre-produced, filmed and delivered in two to three weeks end to end when the brief, script and legal review move on schedule;
larger productions involving multi-location shoots across KL, Penang and JB, motion-graphics-heavy edits or regulated categories requiring KKM or MCMC review commonly run six to eight weeks.
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and the wider Klang Valley are our home turf and where the majority of production days run — office parks, clinics, showrooms, F&B venues, event halls and studio setups included.
We also shoot in Penang (island and Seberang Perai), Johor Bahru, Melaka, Ipoh and the East Coast for briefs that need on-location authenticity — property walkthroughs, factory coverage and retail rollouts across multiple states.
Yes — and where the brief allows we usually recommend combining them. A product launch, brand event or dealer conference in KL is the single most efficient production day a Malaysian brand ever runs:
the same crew can capture the long-form event recap, founder or spokesperson interviews for the corporate video, product demonstrations and same-day short-form cutdowns for Meta, TikTok and Xiaohongshu — all off one call sheet.
Yes. For Malaysian brands already shooting their own footage — in-house creator, founder-led social feed, live-selling host or event recording — we take on the edit alone: platform-native cuts for Reels, TikTok and Xiaohongshu, native captions in English, Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin, colour and sound-mix pass, and platform-ready files back.
Video editing sits inside our production practice rather than as a standalone freelancer service, so the edit team knows how the footage will run against paid distribution
Brand films and founder-led company videos, product demonstrations and category-education explainers, customer testimonial and case-study interviews, event and launch coverage, dealer and channel-partner communications, recruitment and employer-branding films, and short-form vertical social video for Meta, TikTok and Xiaohongshu ad rotation.
Regulated categories — aesthetic clinics, dental practices, financial services — carry additional pre-shoot review to keep claims within KKM, MDC or Securities Commission guidelines.
Every production day is scoped against the Meta, TikTok and Xiaohongshu creative rotation it will feed. A shoot planned only as a one-off brand deliverable leaves budget on the table twice — once at the shoot and again at every paid placement the footage fails to earn back.
We plan the shot list against the paid calendar from the brief stage, so a single Malaysian production supplies the corporate deliverable, the organic feed and the paid rotation together.
For Malaysian shoots specifically, a Malaysia-based team is materially faster and simpler to run — no international freight on gear, no visa paperwork for crew, and full familiarity with Malaysian permits, talent unions and location-owner conventions.
Where regional agencies genuinely add value is on multi-market briefs where the same production has to run across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand under one creative direction.
Yes — product photography Malaysia is part of the same in-house team's scope. White-background catalogue, lifestyle-context sets for PDP and social, multi-angle takes ecommerce marketplaces need. Photography days can share a shoot slot with video production to compress logistics or run standalone where the brief is photography-led.
It depends on where the footage goes. A freelance videographer is the right call for a one-off event or a single clip.
If the footage has to feed paid ads, a website and a launch or content calendar, a team that plans the shot list against the media plan usually costs less per usable asset.
No. We are a marketing agency with an in-house video team: live-action corporate video, product and explainer shoots, event coverage and AI generative video for paid rotation.
Animation, animated series and motion-design studio work are not services we offer; if a brief needs them, we will say so plainly rather than take on scope we cannot deliver.
Yes. For productions we run, we cast models, presenters and talent for the brand as part of the shoot: casting brief, shortlist, fittings or test shots where needed, usage terms for the final content, and on-set management.
We work for the brand; we do not run a talent roster or represent talent.
Yes. A common split is that your in-house team owns strategy, budgets and approvals, and we run the build, testing and reporting on the channels we are given. Where another agency holds other channels, each scope is agreed up front so nothing falls between agencies.
By what the footage does in the paid rotation it was shot for: return on ad spend, cost per lead or bookings.
For Ruby Cell, a Malaysian skincare brand, studio video and full-funnel Meta Ads took return on ad spend from 1.8× to 4.6× across Q1–Q3 2024 (read the case study).
Yes. shakalakaa is a registered vendor of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and a direct vendor of UEM Edgenta Berhad. Contracts are with Plixitt Solutions (BRN 003426311-V), and we can prepare the documents your procurement team needs, or you can request a credentials pack.
