Before production: CFO in flat fluorescent conference room lighting, raw ungraded footage
After production: Same CFO, color-graded in moody teals with shallow depth of field and animated lower-thirds
Jonathan Mercer
Chief Investment Officer — Meridian Capital
Raw Footage
After Production
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Selected Work

The exhibition.

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Wealth management executive delivering market outlook in cinematic interview setup
Wealth Management
Q4 Market Outlook Series
Meridian Capital
Fintech startup blockchain explainer animation with data visualization
DeFi Explainer
Blockchain in 30 Seconds
Vault Protocol
Behind the scenes production setup for financial compliance video shoot
Behind the Scenes
Production Process: Fund Launch
Ticker Studio
Insurance industry CMO in professional video interview with motion graphics lower thirds
Insurance
Brand Humanization Campaign
Arbor Life Group
Institutional asset manager presenting fund performance data with animated charts
Asset Management
Annual Performance Review
Vantage Institutional
Storyboard to final frame comparison showing production transformation process
Process
Storyboard to Screen
Ticker Studio
Fintech startup team in brand video showing company culture and product
Fintech
Series B Brand Film
Clearpath Payments
Motion graphics build showing financial data animation process layers
Motion Graphics
Data Visualization Suite
Thorngate Analytics
Compliance explainer video for regulatory financial content with clean animation
Compliance
Regulatory Explainer Series
Helix Wealth
The Process

Craft, not content mills.

Every project moves through four disciplines. Each one earns the next.

Storyboard sketch for financial video production planning phase
Pre-Production
Storyboard
Final graded frame from completed financial video production
Delivered
Final Frame
01

Brief & Narrative Architecture

We read the deck. We interview the subject. We find the one sentence your audience will remember at 11pm when they're deciding whether to wire the funds.

3 daysAverage brief-to-script turnaround
02

Production Design

Location, lighting, lens choice. A shallow depth of field says "this person matters." Flat fluorescents say "this is a hostage video." We choose differently.

1 dayTypical single-executive shoot
03

Post & Grade

Color grade, sound design, motion graphics. The grade is where authority is manufactured. We build looks that feel like Bloomberg meets A24.

48hrsCompliance-to-approval pipeline
04

Distribution Strategy

LinkedIn native, YouTube pre-roll, LP portal embeds. Each platform gets a cut optimized for its viewer's attention span and intent.

14K+Average LP distribution reach per client
340%
Average video engagement lift
vs. static posts
48hr
Compliance approval pipeline
median turnaround
2.1M
Organic impressions
single campaign record
68%
View-through rate achieved
vs. 32% benchmark
Clientele

The people who exhaled.

"

Our CIO's quarterly outlook used to get 200 views on LinkedIn. The Ticker version got 18,000 in 72 hours. Compliance approved it in one pass.

Sarah Okonkwo
CMO, Meridian Capital Partners
Wealth Management
"

We sent them a 60-slide fund pitch deck. They came back with a 3-minute film that made our LP actually call us to ask questions. That had never happened before.

James Whitfield
Managing Partner, Vantage Institutional
Asset Management
"

The blockchain explainer they built for us ran as pre-roll. 68% view-through. Our category average is 32%. The difference is that they actually understand what we do.

Priya Nair
Head of Growth, Vault Protocol
DeFi
Start Here

Your next video shouldn't
look like a hostage situation.

Tell us what you're trying to say. We'll tell you how to make it impossible to ignore.

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