01 / 10 · The Cinematic Handoff The cinematic
handoff.
What we're asking you for, why it's a small ask, and what it turns your website into. One screen at a time.
Five homepages
are live, waiting on you.
Monitor. Cinema. Editorial. Scroll Cinema. Cinematic Scrub. All built, all fast, all real — pick one with a single text. Two of them do something new: they play cinema as you scroll. No video player, no autoplay — the frames are driven by your thumb. That mechanic is what this walkthrough is about.
Scroll = scrub.
Don't take our word for it. Drag across the frame below — the film moves forwards when you go right, backwards when you go left. It isn't a video player: these are the demo frames, sliced from the film and painted one at a time under your finger. That is the whole mechanic, in your hand, right now.
What you just held
is a stand-in.
To prove the mechanic without waiting on anyone, we generated that demo bed — a storyboard called Light Through the Lens, three keyframes, an 18-second journey, sliced to 435 frames. It's pretty. But it isn't you. Here's the whole thing playing straight — and every second of it is replaceable.
Your films,
in its place.
You've already shot better material than anything we can generate — the VW beauty pass, the Odus glide, the Diageo pour. Give us short excerpts from the masters and we re-run the exact same pipeline with the real thing: the homepage and every format page scrubbing your actual work, frame by frame. A visitor doesn't watch your showreel — they hold it in their hand. That's a website no other Gold Coast studio has.
One unbroken move.
Each excerpt: 6–8 seconds, a single continuous camera move. No cuts, no speed ramps, no titles, no transitions. Why: the scroll plays your shot backwards as well as forwards — a cut looks like a glitch, a ramp feels broken. Pick the most confident move in each film. The shot you'd grade a showreel on.
That's the entire creative brief. Everything else is delivery detail.
One shot per film.
Send it however
is easiest.
A Drive / Dropbox / WeTransfer link — or just text the timecodes ("Odus Ep1, 01:12–01:19") and grant download access on the Vimeo account; we pull them ourselves. Bonus if you have them: one ambient loopable shot for the homepage and 10–20 BTS stills for the Studio page.
Live on your yes —
not before.
You scroll the real pages on the preview site — your footage in place of the demo — and tell us what to change. Nothing touches the public site until you say go. It goes live on your word, not ours.
Pick your eight.
Tick each film as you decide its shot. One confident, unbroken move per film. When all eight are chosen, send them the way that's easiest — the demo disappears and your cinematography becomes the site's motion.
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