A production studio · websites, film, campaigns, music, words
Everything between the idea
and the thing that ships.
Most businesses do not need five suppliers. They need the site, the film, the campaign, the music and the words to be made by people who are talking to each other.
What we make
Five disciplines, one building
Each of these is sold on its own, and most clients start with one. They are listed together because the interesting work happens when two or three of them are aimed at the same thing.
Websites
Fast, static, search-visible sites that outlive their agencyAstro static builds that load in a fraction of a second and have no database, no admin login and no plugins to leave unpatched. You get the design system, the content model, a complete one-hop redirect map from whatever you are replacing, and the source in your own repository.What this involves →Filming and editing
One shoot day, cut into everything the year needsA shoot day planned to produce more than one thing: a hero film, plus the vertical cuts, testimonial pulls and ad variants that carry the months after it. Graded, captioned, delivered in every aspect ratio — and the rushes are handed over, not held.What this involves →Marketing campaigns and advertising
Strategy, creative and paid media that answer to a numberPositioning, channel mix, creative and the landing pages behind it, all run against one number agreed in advance. Charged as a flat fee: your media spend is billed to you directly, on your own card, and never marked up.What this involves →Original music and sound
Written for your film, and licensed to you outrightOriginal music written against your actual timeline and licensed to you outright — full mix, separated stems, and every cut-down a campaign needs. No library subscription to maintain and no content-ID claim arriving on your own advert three years later.What this involves →Copywriting
Words that carry an argument, not just a tone of voiceSite copy, sales pages, ad variant sets and long-form that argue a position instead of describing a company. Researched from what your buyers actually say rather than from a persona document, and structured for somebody reading it on a phone.What this involves →
Why one studio
Four suppliers means four versions of your business
The handover tax
A web agency, a video company, a media buyer and a freelance writer will each need the same brief, and each will interpret it slightly differently. You end up the only person who has read all four, and the only one who can spot that the advert promises something the landing page does not.
The velocity problem
When a campaign needs six new creatives to test a hypothesis this week, a chain of suppliers produces them in three. By then the hypothesis has stopped being interesting. Under one roof it is a conversation on Monday and assets on Wednesday.
The margin nobody mentions
Agencies subcontract the production layer and mark it up. There is nothing dishonest about that, but you are paying twice for the same work and waiting longer for it. We make the assets ourselves and bill media spend straight to you, unmarked.
Proof
We run the kind of business we build for
Three properties, all ours — a platform, an app, and a reference site publishing since 2006. We built them, wrote them, filmed and scored them, and pay for the advertising. When we say a thing works, we are describing something we are carrying the cost of ourselves.
AVMint
An AI production platform, built and marketed end to endA pay-per-generation AI platform that produces business blueprints, content calendars, ad campaigns and marketing plans — product, site, brand and campaign, all in-house.Read the case study →Hypnosis & Health
Twenty years of content, migrated without losing a single URLA 2006 reference site rebuilt as a static illustrated encyclopedia — hundreds of pages, a full 301 map, original diagrams and a measured contrast law.Read the case study →Partymetro
A social app built the opposite way round to social appsAn iPhone and Android app for private presence, plans and meeting up — designed so that being seen is always a decision, and the company holds as little about you as possible.Read the case study →
Or skip the studio entirelyAll three are live and you can use them right now.
How it goes
Four steps, and no surprises in the invoice
- 01
A conversation, not a brief form
What you are trying to move, who has to believe something new, and what has already been tried. Half an hour, no charge, and if the answer is that you do not need us we will say so.
- 02
A written proposal with a number on it
Scope, deliverables, timeline and a fixed price — or a clearly bounded rate where the scope genuinely cannot be fixed yet. You approve a document, not an estimate that drifts.
- 03
Work you see while it is still changeable
Drafts, cuts and staging links early and often. The expensive revisions are the ones requested after a thing is finished, so we make sure you see it before it is.
- 04
Handover that assumes we might not be here
Source in your repository, master files delivered, licences signed, deploy documented. Nothing important lives only in our accounts or only in our heads.
Start a project
Tell us what you are trying to build
One studio for the site, the film, the campaign, the music and the words — so the pieces agree with each other. Send a paragraph about the project and you will get a straight answer about whether we are the right people for it.