Wonderwide Neighborhood · Chicago
People already love what you do. The rest of the city should know why.
I’m a Chicago filmmaker with movies streaming on Prime Video. Between productions, I work with neighborhood shops that have poured everything into their reputation. My job is to put that story to work for them.
Ruiz Shoe Repair — North Western Avenue
One afternoon in your shop
I handle all of it.
A website built around your shop, and a short film about the craft behind your counter. Real prices, listed — no estimate, no meeting first.
Spotlight
Half a day
$1,500
- 60-second film about your work
- 4 vertical clips for Instagram and TikTok
- 3 short clips for your Google listing
- 25 finished photos you can use anywhere
Feature
A full day
$2,800
- 90-second film about your work
- 10 vertical clips
- 2 customer interviews
- 5 clips for your Google listing
- 60 finished photos
Flagship
Two days
$4,500
- Two-to-three-minute film
- 20 vertical clips
- 4 customer interviews
- A before-and-after sequence
- Enough footage to post for six months
Every package comes with a website.
Five pages built around your film — your hours, your services, your reviews, a map, a button that calls your shop. Hosting and updates are $79 a month.
You own your domain. If you ever want to leave, you take the whole site with you and I'll help you move it. No contract, 30 days' notice.
Optional
Or keep it going all year.
Most shops stop after the film, and that's fine. But if you want to post twice a week without ever thinking about it — I come back once a quarter, shoot for an afternoon, and finished clips land in your inbox every month. Your website is free while you're on one of these.
Feed
$550per month
4 vertical clips a month, one clip for your Google listing, captions written and a posting schedule you can follow.
Engine
$950per month
8 vertical clips a month, a longer piece each quarter, two Google listing clips, and a plain-English recap of what's working.
Studio
$1,800per month
14 clips a month, a new long piece every month, customer interviews whenever you need them, and seasonal planning.
Who's holding the camera
I make movies for a living.
Feature films you can stream on Prime Video. Documentaries for nonprofits. Campaigns for companies you've heard of.
None of that matters much to you, so here's what does.
Most video people show up, film your sign and a few nice shots of the room, and hand you a commercial. It looks like every other commercial.
I make documentaries. Before I arrive I'll have read your reviews — all of them — and worked out why forty of your customers mention one person by name, or keep bringing up the same thing you do that nobody else does. Then I build the film around that.
It's the difference between a video about a shop and a film about the people in it. One gets watched once. The other gets sent to a friend.
What the day is actually like
You don't have to prepare anything.
- 1 Don't clean up for meDon't tidy, don't dress up, don't rehearse. I want your shop on a normal Tuesday. The real thing always films better than the staged version.
- 2 You work, I filmI stay out of the way and shoot what's already happening. At some point we'll sit down and talk for twenty minutes on camera, and about four minutes in you'll forget it's there.
- 3 Two weeks later it's doneFilm, clips, photos — finished and already loaded onto your website. You'll get a link and a short note telling you what to post first.
- 4 You won't have to learn anythingDomain, hosting, email at your own address, your Google listing — all handled. You'll never log into anything. If something needs changing, you text me and it's changed.
Chicago only
I take a handful of these a month.
In person, in your shop, anywhere in the city. Text me and tell me what you do — that's the whole first step.