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Feb 26
4 min

Music Videos are a waste of money: How to be more helpful for Artists

The Campaign Lives: Building projects with Volume The reality is that music videos are dead, artists don't need them, and producing music...

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Jan 29
3 min

Pitching Better Projects

Properly diagnosing for smarter prescriptions entry no. 33 Pitching a great project is an art in itself, and the creative process is tric...

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Jan 15
4 min

Why you Should Rent Your Gear

A blog about our production partner, Ohio HD entry no. 32 Over the years, I've learned how dangerous assumptions can be. Being direct, pr...

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Dec 31, 2020
7 min

Surviving 2020

Being grateful, finding ourselves and highlighting our year entry no. 31 As I'm sure this year has been a whirlwind for many, we're most ...

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Feb 10, 2018
3 min

BTS of Everything

The Creative Process for STS Everything Music Video entry no. 13 In pre-production, we decided to plan this project to be less about a sc...

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Oct 7, 2017
3 min

Stay Dark

Managing time and power entry no. 07 "Subjective Morality" is a heavy hitter track. From the start we knew the edit needed to carry an im...

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Aug 19, 2017
3 min

Livin' in the 90's

Pale ash project entry no. 06 Over the years we’ve had a lot of projects and some are plan-heavy, others, more so concept and some are ju...

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Apr 29, 2017
3 min

Deadlines. Deadlines. Deadlines.

Heavy Things Sold entry no. 05 You have two weeks to meet your artist, scout locations, plan your gear, assemble a crew and edit the proj...

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Mar 25, 2017
1 min

Pale Ash

Lave Project Highlight entry no. 04 "Pale Ash" was a project that took time planning, getting information together, aligning schedules an...

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Mar 11, 2017
3 min

Productions Made Fun

Denihilist Still Project entry no. 03 Our productions are a nice balance between crafting the perfect project, working our asses off and ...

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Dec 24, 2016
4 min

Making of Fury

Post Modern Project entry no. 02 For Fury, we took an extra step in creativity and making something more unique than usual. Our previous ...

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