Short films for
people and missions
that color outside the lines.

Good stories come from great listeners.

the first fifth.

We spend the first 20% of all engagements listening and planning before we do anything. Why?

Your story, told well, should speak about your why to your specific audience in a differentiated manner. Instead of comparing price, features, and benefits, you are telling a very specific audience that you designed something just for them and they don’t need to look any further.

And that story should be in your own words, not someone else’s.

Which is why our entire motto is sophistication in restraint. No big crews, fancy rigs, or bloated budgets. Just open ears and an eagerness to collaborate. (And a camera + microphone. Maybe some lights.)

The first fifth is our way of making sure this process runs as it should, every time.

What we capture

STORIES

CONVERSATIONS

EVENTS

MUSIC VIDEOS

we're here
to tell stories that convert through differentiation.

wasif gets a hairline

Dr. Vinay Rawlani builds hair restoration around art and medicine rather than volume. We spent the first fifth understanding what his patients were actually afraid of, then made the film from what he told us. Our video and brand work with Dr. Vinay helped to double his revenue in one year, and resulted in new patients coming in telling him they knew him (from his videos).

WATCH WASIF

the highbrow and the lowbrow

Tim Peterson has run an independent shop in Evanston for fifteen years. There was no marketing problem to solve here. There was a man nobody had ever asked why he does it. One intro film and eleven clips was what we delivered. Before the review call was over, Tim had asked us back to make the store's fifteenth anniversary into something special. "I gave answers I've never said aloud before. Made me think about things I've never been able to articulate."

WATCH TIM

" But I don't like being on camera. "

" I wouldn't know what to say. "

- most clients

before they get to know our process

Most people don't like being on camera, including Rob here. We understand. But our process is designed to help you be comfortable speaking. And it doesn't have to be on camera. It's just better when it is.

Here's what some folks have said to us after their story is revealed:

" I've never felt comfortable speaking to a lens.
Prashant worked around that, making me feel comfortable to just be me. "

- Natasha Kohli

visual artist, Evanston, IL

everything starts with the first fifth.

Ninety minutes on a call. A story written from it. $3,500.

It's yours. Put it on your about page, or use it as the foundation for whatever comes next.

We don't quote a film before we know what the film is. Once we have your story, we'll know what it takes to make it, and so will you.

meet the minds behind the method.

one might make the case that Method was founded at a lunch table at Gower Middle School in 1994 when new-student prashant harassed Steve until the latter said something. The first words out of Steve’s mouth were a flurry of frustrated curse words that brought the previously raucous lunch room to a museum-like hush.

prashant responded by extending his hand and saying “nice to meet you. was that so hard?”

and so it goes.

read our full story here.

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Moments of Emotional Truth, Honestly Observed and Documented

based in Evanston, IL. serving the globe.