White Label Studios — campaign films that can’t be shot

WLS White Label Studios

Campaign films that can’t be shot.

Animals loose in real interiors. Impossible scale. Worlds that don’t exist. Made to hold up under a close look, and made by the person you talk to.

Selected work

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Locked in — Official Selection, Higgsfield Global Film Festival

Scope

A campaign, not a film.

One controlled world, and everything the launch runs on built out of it.

Same lighting, same world, your own product photography composited in, your type placed as vector. No second shoot, because there was no first one.

Fifteen working days from brief lock. Two rounds of revisions.

Masters, usage and every likeness are set out in the engagement before work starts.

Hero film, up to thirty seconds
Three social cutdowns
A vertical built for the format, not centre-cropped
Twelve stills at print resolution
E-commerce product frames

Selected concepts Images that could not be shot, each built by hand. Hover to watch. Each one is a different reason the old limits don’t apply, and a different world a brand can own.

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Drawn by hand Before any of the films, there was fine art. Years of mastering the craft of figurative drawing, both human and animal, led to the development of creating believable scenes. Some works at wall scale, all of it slow. The eye for what makes something real came first. The speed came later.

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The frame

Gameface is two black leopards and six other species, loose in a working Amsterdam store.

As a shoot that’s a closed location, a licensed animal unit, an insurer and a permit file — and a permit office that may simply say no. Two Friesian horses in an Amsterdam street means a road closure and mounted handlers. Venomous species worn as clothing means a day of everyone waiting on an animal.

None of that is a scheduling problem. It’s a shot list that can’t be quoted.

What you are paying for is judgment: the frame, what it says about the brand, and the discipline that holds both at 4K.

Gameface — frame — Gameface · opening ten seconds

What lands One build, every placement. The master is graded once and reframed by eye for each format, so nothing important sits outside the crop.

Gameface — 4K master frame — 4K master · 16:9

Gameface — square reframe — Square reframe · 1:1

Gameface — vertical reframe — Vertical · 9:16

Usage agreed in the engagement.

Reframes shown here are indicative crops of a finished frame.

How it works

One
Diagnosis. A long call. I ask what’s launching and when, what the imagery has to do that the last campaign didn’t, what can’t change, and what’s genuinely open. Expect a lot of questions.
Two
Direction. One or two directions, written and shown, not seventeen. You choose before anything is built.
Three
Build. The world, then the hero, then everything else out of the same build. One palette, one grade, one grain.
Four
Delivery. Every format, finished, on the date agreed. Two rounds of revisions, on a clean link.

Who makes it

I spent years drawing animals in graphite and charcoal, some of it at wall scale, all of it from observation. I make films the same way — by eye, frame by frame.

That’s why the films look composed rather than generated. It’s also the one thing a competitor with the same software can’t copy.

White Label Studios makes the campaign images that can’t be shot: animals loose in real interiors, scale that doesn’t exist, five continents in one film.

The studio is him. You talk to the person who makes the work, and the work is made by the person you talked to.

“Nothing here gets handed to a junior. The film you approve is the film I made.”

Control

Beauty is the entry ticket. The question is control.

Your product is never generated. The bottle in the frame is your own photography.
Type is placed, not reinterpreted. Every wordmark and swing tag goes in as vector, so it stays legible and correct.
Grade and grain are applied once, across the whole campaign, never shot by shot. That’s why it reads as one film instead of a collection.
Scale is anchored to a real interior. That’s why the leopards are present in the room rather than composited on top of it.

Contact

“Tell me what can’t be shot.”

Campaigns begin at €18,000.

Taking on two new engagements this quarter.

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Every engagement delivers: hero film to thirty seconds · three social cutdowns · a vertical built for the format · twelve stills at print resolution · e-commerce product frames · defined usage rights · two rounds of revisions.