Case study

An LA brand moment, shot in the day's own light.

A New Era activation in Los Angeles, with Two Eighteen. Outdoor location, available light, full photo and video coverage from the day.

Photography
Videography
Activation
Los Angeles
The challenge

Outdoor location, real conditions, one day to land the brand moment.

Two Eighteen brought us in as the content team for a New Era activation in Los Angeles. The brief was about doing justice to the project — capturing the brand moment in its own setting, with the atmosphere of the day intact.

No closed set, no fixed lighting plan. The work was to read the day as it happened and bring back both stills and motion that carried the activation’s identity without overproducing it.

Our approach.

How we solved it.

01

Show up ready

Site walk and a quick brand check with Two Eighteen, then a working shot list focused on the moments most likely to land.

02

Work the light

Outdoor location, available light, no controlled environment. We worked with what the day gave us — position, timing, angles — instead of trying to override the conditions.

03

Photo and video, in parallel

Stills and motion covering the same beats with a relaxed timeline, so each moment got the takes it deserved rather than rushing to the next.

04

Edit and hand off

Brand-graded stills and short-form video cuts assembled after the shoot, with the full original library returned to Two Eighteen and New Era for ongoing use.

Selected work

Selected frames.

Deliverables

What we delivered.

Photo set

in Los Angeles

Brand-graded stills from the activation in Los Angeles — captured outdoors in the day’s own light, with the atmosphere of the moment intact.

Video cuts

for social and brand

Short-form video pieces from the day, edited to carry the activation’s tone — assembled for use across social channels and the broader brand library.

Full library

returned in original

All original photo and video files handed back to Two Eighteen and New Era so the activation can keep working beyond the shoot.

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