Service 01
Brand film
Two to four minutes of the thing you actually do, shot on location rather than staged in a studio. Scripted where it needs to be, observed where it does not.
- 1–2 shoot days
- Colour + cut
CNRY Studio · Toronto
A studio built around watching first.
CNRY Studio is my independent film and photography practice. Documentary, automotive and brand work for companies that would rather have something true than something polished — and usually get both.
Independent
Owner-operated
Toronto and travelling
01 — Services
What the studio takes on.
Four offerings. If a project sits between two of them, that is usually fine — say so on the brief call.
Service 02
Automotive
Rolling and static coverage, interiors, detail. Built for listings, launches and editorial. Cabin and interface detail included as standard, because that is what I look at anyway.
- Half or full day
- Stills + motion
Service 03
Documentary & events
Long-form observation of something happening once. Minimal crew, minimal intervention, and selects reviewed on location so nothing is missing after the fact.
- Per event
- Same-week selects
Service 04
Portrait & team
Founders, teams, and the product on a desk. Short sessions in your own space, available light where the room allows it. Retouched to look like the person, not like a render.
- 2–4 hours
- Web + print sizes
Every project is quoted individually against scope, licensing and turnaround — there is no rate card, because a half-day portrait session and a two-day automotive shoot have nothing in common. You get the number before anything is booked.
02 — How a project runs
Five stages, no surprises.
The quote and the deliverables list are agreed in writing before the first shoot day. Nothing after that is a renegotiation.
Book the brief call-
Stage 01
Brief call
Twenty minutes, free. What it is for, where it runs, and what would make it a failure.
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Stage 02
Quote and scope
One page: shoot days, deliverables, licensing, turnaround, and the number. Signed before anything is scheduled.
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Stage 03
Recce and shot list
Location seen at the hour we will actually shoot. The shot list comes out of the recce, not before it.
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Stage 04
Shoot
Selects reviewed on location. If something is missing, we are still standing in the place where we can get it.
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Stage 05
Post and handoff
Colour, cut, one revision round inside the agreed turnaround, then files at every size the destination needs.
03 — Fit
Worth saying out loud.
A studio that is right for everything is right for nobody. Here is where CNRY is a good call and where it is not.
Good fit
- You have something real to show
- A workshop, a process, a car, a team. Observation beats staging, and observation needs something to observe.
- Small crew suits the room
- Owner-operated means fewer people between the camera and the subject. Most locations get better because of it.
- You want the interface noticed
- Automotive and product work comes with a second pair of eyes on how the thing is actually used.
Not the right call
- Large-crew studio productions
- Multi-camera sets with a full lighting department are somebody else’s speciality, and they are good at it.
- Same-day turnarounds
- Colour and cut take the time they take. Rush work exists, but it is agreed in the quote, not assumed.
- Volume catalogue shoots
- Hundreds of identical product frames want a fixed rig and a production line, not this studio.
The studio and the research practice ask the same question: what is actually happening here, before anybody decides what it should look like?