THE STUDIO / A SHORT DOCUMENTARY

A CREATIVE TEAMWITH A PULSE.

01 / THE CONVICTION

Most content is wallpaper.

Watched, forgotten, replaced. Your story deserves better than a highlight reel with a music drop. We make the thing people rewatch, share, and remember you by.

We believe the camera is the easy part. Anyone can rent the gear. The hard part is knowing which sixty seconds of a three-day shoot will make a stranger stop scrolling and feel something, and having the discipline to throw away everything else.

We believe feeling is a growth strategy. Retention graphs are just emotion, measured. The film that makes someone cry at a festival is the same film that holds ten minutes of watch time on YouTube. We don't choose between art and numbers. We use one to prove the other.

And we believe in staying small on purpose. Fewer projects, more obsession. If we take your story, it's because we couldn't stand to see someone else tell it worse.

02 / THE FOUNDER
DRAKE / FOUNDER / 29029 FINISH, WHISTLER
DRAKE / FOUNDER / 29029 FINISH, WHISTLER

DRAKE

I'm Drake, the founder of Macademic Media. Before cameras it was baseball: first-team All-American at the University of Southern Indiana. Before that, a family gym my parents ran for 22 years. I grew up around people performing under pressure and around the business of keeping them coming back.

In 2022 I was laid off from a corporate job with a two-month-old at home and my wife still on maternity leave. I went full-time into filmmaking that week. That's the door Macademic walked through.

Started in Indianapolis. Now in Nashville. Still small on purpose.

03 / WHAT WE DO

THREE WAYS IN.

01

MAKE THE FILM

DOCUMENTARIES, BRAND FILMS, EVENT FILMS, PRODUCT LAUNCHES.

For brands and events with a story worth more than a highlight reel.

We lead with documentary, a fly on the wall when it actually happens. That's the part no model can generate for you. You get the asset people rewatch and share, the one that makes the thing permanent. And at events, speed is part of the product: thousands of finished stills in people's hands inside 36 hours.

PROOF / MAKE THE FILM
02

BUILD THE MACHINE

YOUTUBE & CHANNEL STRATEGY, PACKAGING, GROWTH SYSTEMS.

For founders and personalities who want a channel that compounds, not a content treadmill.

You stop guessing. Titles, thumbnails, and formats become a system with a scoreboard, and we use AI where it earns its place, so the machine runs on what we actually captured.

03

OWN THE FEED

SHORT-FORM SYSTEMS, ASSET ENGINES, CREATOR DISTRIBUTION.

For teams that need one shoot to travel across every feed that matters.

Everything we document, capture, and curate goes out. One weekend of footage becomes months of assets, packaged per channel and built to move.

04 / BEHIND THE LENS
05 / THE ROSTER

SMALL ON PURPOSE.
ALWAYS LOOKING.

The studio stays small, but the roster doesn't. Every shoot is built from people we trust, and we are always adding to that list. If you can hold a frame, cut a story, or light a room, and you can do it as a guest instead of a crew, we want to know you exist.

SEND YOUR REEL

ONE LINK, ONE LINE ON WHAT YOU DO, WHERE YOU'RE BASED. THAT'S IT.

  • SHOOTERS
    DOC INSTINCT FIRST. GIMBAL, HANDHELD, DRONE.
  • EDITORS
    LONG-FORM STORY AND SHORT-FORM SYSTEMS.
  • GAFFERS & GRIPS
    FAST, SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIGHTING.
  • PHOTOGRAPHERS
    EVENTS, ATHLETES, QUICK-TURN GALLERIES.
  • SOUND
    LOCATION MIX FOR LIVE ROOMS AND INTERVIEWS.
  • COLOR & POST
    GRADE, TITLES, DELIVERY.

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