BRANDED STORIES
Stories built around people, place and experience.
Photography and video for brands, agencies and businesses. From documentary-style storytelling and brand films to lifestyle campaigns, interviews and social content.
The story comes first.
The best branded content gives people something to connect with beyond the product or service.
It might be a personality, a place, a shared experience or an unexpected detail. We look for the elements that make each story specific, then build the photography and video around them.
The result is work that feels considered, visually compelling and connected to the brand without losing what makes the story interesting.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Netflix · Walmart · New York Knicks · Toll Brothers · Visit Phoenix · HomeGoods · Stand Up To Cancer · Thom Browne
Different stories. Different ways to tell them.
From a single brand film to a coordinated campaign, we create photography and video around the people, environments and ideas that define the story.
BRAND FILMS + CAMPAIGNS
Story-driven video and photography for brand campaigns, product launches, organizational storytelling and digital experiences.
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PEOPLE + PROFILES
Interviews, documentary portraits, founder stories, employee profiles and character-driven content that brings the people behind a brand into focus.
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PLACES + EXPERIENCES
Photography and video capturing environments, destinations, hospitality, events and the experiences that give a brand its character.
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SOCIAL + SHORT-FORM
Short-form stories, campaign cutdowns, vertical videos, motion portraits and still photography designed for digital and social platforms.
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SELECTED VIDEO WORK
HILTON HOTELS
MCDONALD’S
DELL
TOLL BROTHERS
LANSINOH
NEW YORK KNICKS
METHOD HOCKEY
TREE HOUSE BREWERY
WALMART
VISIT PHOENIX
One production. A story that goes further.
A well-planned production can create far more than a single finished film. By approaching photography and video together, we can build a collection of assets that works across campaigns, websites, social channels and ongoing communications.
CAMPAIGNS + WEB
Brand films · hero imagery · campaign photography · website videos · portraits
SOCIAL + DIGITAL
Short-form videos · vertical edits · campaign cutdowns · behind-the-scenes · social photography
BRAND + COMMUNICATIONS
Company profiles · founder stories · interviews · environmental imagery · PR assets
EVERGREEN
A deeper library of footage, interviews, portraits, details and environments that can support future content.
You don’t need to have the whole production figured out.
Some clients come with a fully developed creative brief. Others have a person, a place or an idea they want to explore.
We can help shape the approach from the first conversation through final delivery, developing the creative, planning the production and assembling the right team for the work.
From a small documentary-style shoot to a larger agency-led campaign, the process is built around what the story needs.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT · INTERVIEWS · PHOTOGRAPHY · VIDEO · PRODUCTION · POST
Fifteen years of commercial experience.
Aaron has spent the past 15 years directing, filming and photographing commercial projects for brands, agencies and organizations.
His work spans documentary-style storytelling, lifestyle campaigns, interviews, portraiture and branded content, with an approach that combines strong visual direction and an instinct for finding meaningful moments.
Commonwealth Studios brings that experience to a focused, collaborative production model, building the right creative team and scope around each project.
Based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, working throughout Philadelphia, New York and nationally.