Work / Motion & Video

Motion

Nine films, shot and edited in house. Farm and forestry equipment that had to be seen working, a lounge that only makes sense with the lights on, and a product built from raw material to sealed tin.

Clients: Valley Tool Manufacturing · Falcon’s Lair · Seahunny
Discipline: Motion & Video
Role: Shot and edited by SOS

Some things cannot be photographed

A logo can be shown. A mark holds still, and a still picture is enough to judge it. A machine is different. The question a customer is actually asking about a flail mower is not what it looks like parked, it is what it leaves behind after one pass, and how much tractor it takes to pull it. That question has a duration. You cannot answer it with a photograph.

Everything below exists because the work had a duration. It is the same studio and the same eye as the identity work, pointed at something that moves.

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Valley Tool Manufacturing

Seven films, three equipment brands

Valley Tool builds under three names, and each one needed a different argument. Vrisimo is flail mowers and shredders, sold on what the ground looks like behind them. BrushHound is excavator-mounted forestry mulching, sold on how fast standing brush stops standing. Flowcore is orchard spraying, sold on coverage.

The shoots went where the equipment goes: open field, almond rows in bloom and after leaf drop, and wooded right-of-way. No studio, no staging, no borrowed footage.

A compact orange tractor towing a yellow Vrisimo MiniMax flail mower through open green field under a clear sky, a cut swath behind it — **Weapon of Grass Destruction.** The MiniMax in open field, cut around a single clean pass and what it leaves behind.

Close view of the yellow Vrisimo MiniMax flail mower hitched behind the rear wheel of a red compact tractor on fallen autumn leaves — **Only 17 HP required.** The same machine argued on spec rather than on mood: what it needs, and what it can be hung off the back of.

A yellow Vrisimo Super Series flail mower sitting on cut green grass with farm buildings on the horizon — **Super Series.** The heavy end of the line, shot in orchard rows and open ground, with the specifications carried on screen.

A red tractor with a yellow Vrisimo berm blower attachment and twin black ducts working an orchard floor — **BL Series 24-inch Berm Blower.** Orchard floor work, shot down the row and from above, where the pattern it makes is the point.

A red Kubota excavator carrying a BrushHound FX26 mulching head down a wooded track, framed by green leaves — **Ten minutes, compressed into one.** The whole argument for a mulching head is rate of work, so the edit is the argument.

A red Kubota excavator with a BrushHound head clearing brush from a steep pond bank, cut material spread across the slope — **Driveway and pond.** A right-of-way and a pond bank taken back, shot from the ground and from the air so the before and after read at once.

Aerial view of an almond orchard in full white bloom with a Flowcore sprayer rig working down a dirt row — **Flowcore Sprayers.** Shop floor to orchard: the machine welded and assembled, then working an almond block in bloom.

Falcon’s Lair · Ripon, CA

A room, shot when it is empty

A spirits lounge is a lighting design with furniture in it. Photograph it during service and you get people. Photograph it in daylight and you get a room with the lights off, which is nobody’s experience of the place.

So this was shot between close and open, with the room lit exactly the way a guest would find it and nothing in the frame but the room: the monument sign from the road at dusk, the back bar, the chandeliers, the checkerboard floor, and the mark at the end.

The Falcon's Lair back bar at night: bottles lit along a mirrored wall, two chandeliers above, arched chair backs in the foreground — **Falcon’s Lair, Ripon, CA.** Exterior at dusk, then through the room, ending on the mark.

Seahunny

A product film that is really a process film

The easiest way to sell something handmade is to stop describing it as handmade and show the hands. Raw shea butter is not obviously appealing in a jar. It is very appealing being broken up on a board, melted, whipped and packed.

The cut follows the method start to finish and ends on the finished tin, which is the only moment in the film that looks like an advertisement.

A finished Seahunny Blissed-Out Body Ganache tin, gold lid facing the camera, surrounded by broken chunks of raw shea butter — **Food For Your Skin.** The making of Blissed-Out Body Ganache, raw material to sealed tin.

All nine films were shot and edited by Slightly Obsessed Studios. Each one is hosted on the client’s own channel or ours, and is embedded here with the original audio and cut intact. Product names and equipment brands belong to their owners.

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