CREATIVE DIRECTION + CONTENT PRODUCTION · Ventura, California
You do not need another shooter. You need someone to own the story.
The DK sets the strategy, plans the production, casts and directs the crew and delivers finished assets every month. For lifestyle, destination and corporate culture brands with a team and a budget.
Two ways to work with the studio
One builds the brand. One keeps it telling stories.
Discovery, strategy, identity and the guidelines your team needs to make things without you. One engagement, a written scope and a fixed fee.
- Discovery and positioning
- Messaging and story platform
- Identity system and art direction
- Brand guidelines your team can run
A creative director and producer on your team every month. We set the quarter’s story, plan the production, direct the crew and hand back finished assets with a layout of where each one goes. Start with a single month, then continue quarterly.
- Quarterly story strategy
- Monthly production planning
- Crew cast and directed on set
- Editing, design and asset delivery
Shoot days are quoted per production. Programs open with one month rather than a long commitment, then run on quarterly terms. We do not take on paid media, social media management or UGC.
How a month runs
You approve a plan. We handle the rest.
Once a quarter we agree what the brand is saying and which stories carry it.
Locations, permits, talent, schedule and the shot plan. You see one page and say go.
Most months that is me on camera. When the story needs a specialist, I bring one in and direct the day.
Edited stills, film and design, handed over with a layout of where each asset goes.
Selected clients
One person on the plane, not four.
Most months I shoot and edit the work myself, so there is no crew markup and no stacked day rates. On location that means one flight and one hotel instead of four. When a story needs talent, a stylist or a second unit, I bring in the right one and direct them.
Selected work
Three programs, start to finish.
Volando Tequila
Behind the brand: founder story, production and a two-minute film for a launch.
Story Program
Auzmet
Brand strategy through to monthly content, video shoots and a website migration.
Foundation + Program
Ovation Las Vegas
Creative direction and monthly content across a luxury residential portfolio.
Story Program
Brand Foundation
Guidelines a team can actually run.
Spectre and Ventura Harbor Village both left with a system their people use without calling us. That is the point of the Foundation: the brand keeps working when we are not in the room.
See the Foundation →
Twenty years of getting things made.
Fifteen years inside ABC's The Bachelor franchise, during the era when television brand integrations were being invented. Production, logistics and the reality of getting a crew to a location on a schedule.
Fourteen years founding and publishing Established California, an independent print magazine. Strategy, editing, design direction, production and finance, every issue.
You get someone who has sat on both sides of the table: the maker's side and the publisher's side. I know what it takes to get your ideas made.
Tell us what you are building.
We read every word and come back inside two business days with honest thoughts on fit, scope and cost.
Start a conversationStory Program from $5,000 per month, starting with one month · Brand Foundation from $8,000