ACT 01
PLAN
We start by listening, then we build the plan around it: what gets shot, where it ships, and what it has to do when it lands.
00 / COLD OPEN
THE CAMERA ISTHE EASY PART.
Macademic Media captures adventure, moments, and memories for adventurers, founders, and athletes. We cut it into content people can't scroll past, then we prove it with numbers.
10M+ IMPRESSIONSONE FESTIVAL1,700 IN THE ROOMFOUNDER-LED. SMALL ON PURPOSE.
01 / THE PROBLEM
No digital dust.
Nothing we shoot dies on a hard drive or sits in a camera roll waiting for someday. Everything gets cut, packaged, and posted. That's the thing people rewatch, share, and remember you by.
02 / THE WORK
PROOF, NOT PROMISES.
REC 00:00:00:00
10M+ IMPRESSIONS · RUNNINGMAN 2024
Jesse Itzler: The Ongoing Work
Every event for Jesse and his brands since Runningman 2024: festivals, a live show, frozen lakes, and rooms full of founders.
REC 00:00:00:00
IN THE EDIT · RELEASING SOON
29029: The Triple
A bike up Mount Seymour, a swim across Alta Lake, then 29,029 feet of Whistler on foot.
03 / THE SCOREBOARD
Feeling is a growth strategy.
- 10M+
- Impressions, one festival
- 1,700
- Attendees, felt by millions
- 4,000
- Stills delivered in under 36 hrs
04 / HOW WE CUT
OBSESSION,IN FOUR ACTS.
ACT 02
SHOOT
Small crew, big intent. We shoot like documentarians, not wedding vendors: waiting for the true moment, not staging a fake one.
ACT 03
CUT
The edit is where we're ruthless. Every frame earns its place or it goes.
ACT 04
SHIP
Packaging, titles, thumbnails, distribution. A great film nobody watches is a failure we don't accept.
05 / THE PEOPLE
A CREATIVE TEAM WITH A PULSE.
Founder-led. Small on purpose. We take fewer projects so every one gets the obsession it deserves.
YOUR STORY ISALREADY GOOD.LET'S MAKE ITUNDENIABLE.
Tell us who you are and what winning looks like. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right studio for it.
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