On set todayStage B · Day 2 of 3Fieldhouse Athletics
SC 02 · Selected work · 2023–2026
Six films, racked into focus one at a time.
Insurance, cars, dance, food, sport and music. All shot by the same core crew and finished in the same dark room on Stage B.
06 films · TRT 00:09:20:00
01 / 06Hartwell MutualBrand film · 2025
Headlights
A breakdown at 2 a.m., told from the hazard lights out. An insurance film with no policy numbers in it, and the most-shared thing Hartwell has ever made.
Stage B, West Midtown · 6,400 sq ft · pre-light for Slow Burn
Three departments. One call sheet.
01 · 18MM
Development Before anyone says "rolling".
We turn a brief into a film worth making: creative strategy, scripts, a director's treatment with real references, and a schedule you can budget against on day one.
Treatments
Scripts
Storyboards and shot lists
Casting direction
Budget and schedule
Typical runway · 1–3 weeks
02 · 40MM
Production Crew, kit, permits and a plan for the weather.
We run the set. Producers, DPs, gaffers, grips, art and HMU from the deepest crew bench in the Southeast, plus our own pre-lit stage ten minutes from the airport road.
Line production
Locations and permits
Casting
Camera, lighting and grip
Stage B with cyc
Typical shoot · 1–5 days
03 · 85MM
Post Where the film actually gets made.
Offline edit, color, sound design and mix, clean-up and every cutdown your media plan asks for, finished in-house on one calibrated reference monitor.
Edit
Color, HDR and SDR
Sound design and mix
Titles and VFX
Versioning and captions
Typical post · 2–4 weeks
Most of our films land between $45k and $450k. We'll tell you on the first call what your budget buys, and what it doesn't.
SC 05 · How a shoot works
Six weeks, on one page.
Every project gets a call sheet before it gets a camera. This is the one we'd write for a typical sixty-second spot, from first call to final delivery.
ProductionYour film
ProducerKendra Ashby
Crew call06:00
Sunrise · Sunset07:41 · 18:39
Weather64°F, clear
WK 01
Brief and first call
We read your brief, ask the awkward questions and come back within 48 hours with a point of view and a ballpark.
Wrapped
WK 01–02
Treatment
The director's treatment: tone, references, casting direction and a frame-by-frame look book you can take to your boss.
Wrapped
WK 02–03
Pre-production
Casting, locations, wardrobe, permits and insurance, then the PPM, where every decision gets signed off before anyone spends a dollar on set.
Wrapped
WK 04
The shoot
One to three days. You get a chair at video village, your own monitor and a producer whose only job is you.
Wrapped
WK 04–05
Edit
An assembly in three days, then two rounds of notes to a locked cut. We show you cuts, not timelines.
Wrapped
WK 06
Finish and deliver
Grade, mix and titles, then masters plus 30, 15 and 6 second cutdowns in every ratio your plan needs, with captions and an archive.
Wrapped
And on the day itself · a typical shoot day
06:00Crew call, breakfast on set
07:15First setup, first slate
09:30Client check-in at the monitor
12:30Lunch. Hot, sit-down, always
14:00Second unit on product shots
17:50Golden hour setup
18:40The martini shot
19:00Wrap. Selects in your inbox by 22:00
SC 06 · The crew
Day 2 of Night League, checking a slider move before the take
Six names in the credits. The same six on set.
Directed by
Ezra SolomonCo-founder. Twenty years of commercials and still shoots his own reference frames on a phone the night before.
Executive producer
Kendra AshbyCo-founder. Has never missed a delivery date, and keeps the spreadsheet to prove it.
Director of photography
Mireille ToussaintLights with as little as she can get away with. Tungsten, haze and patience.
Head of production
Cyrus WinslowPermits, call sheets and weather calls. The reason the trucks are where they should be at 05:30.
Editor
Imani PruittCuts to sound first. Keeps a library of four thousand room tones, sorted by city.
Colorist
Gus AlbrightFinishes every film on the same reference monitor, in the darkest room on Stage B.
With
A bench of 140 Atlanta crew we book again and again: gaffers, grips, ACs, art department, HMU and the best PAs in the state.