Skip to content
PlayLab

FILM

PLAYLAB — COMMERCIAL AND NARRATIVE

Directed frame by frame, generated rather than shot, cut like film. The camera simply stopped being a requirement.

WE MAKEIMAGESCAMERAScan’t.

PlayLab makes moving image — narrative and brand film produced with a hybrid pipeline where generative tools sit inside a real edit, not beside it. Films are cut, graded and scored to a single direction rather than assembled from stock beats.

We direct film the way a film is directed — with a board, a cut and a point of view. The camera simply stopped being a requirement.

Anamorphic frame from the PlayLab reel, plate 1
Anamorphic frame from the PlayLab reel, plate 2
Anamorphic frame from the PlayLab reel, plate 3

01  /  Disciplines

Commercials

Brand films and campaign spots directed frame by frame, generated rather than shot, cut like film.

Product film

Objects filmed in places that do not exist, lit by physics we chose not to obey.

Brand worlds

A consistent visual world across dozens of frames — the hardest thing to do with generative tools, and the whole job.

Motion identity

The moving half of a brand system, specified alongside the static one.

02  /  How it runs

  1. 01

    Find the image

    One frame that the whole piece can hang from. If it does not exist yet, we make it before we plan anything.

    Key frame, reference cut

  2. 02

    Board it

    Shot list, grammar and pacing — treated as film, not as a prompt list.

    Boards and timing

  3. 03

    Generate and shoot

    Generative pipelines, plates and practical capture, mixed until the seam disappears.

    Raw material

  4. 04

    Cut

    Edit, sound, grade and grain. The look is finished in the cut, not in the generator.

    Master and cutdowns

  5. 05

    Deliver

    Every ratio and platform the piece has to live in, mastered from the same grade.

    Full delivery set

03  /  Proof

04  /  Engagement

NO DECK.NO PITCHTHEATRE.

Shape
Per-film production
Typical length
4 – 10 weeks
Starts with
A reference and a running time

05  /  Questions

Is the work AI-generated or filmed?

Both, depending on what the frame needs. Generated material is treated as footage: shot-listed, cut on motion, graded to one palette and held to the same standard as anything through a lens.

What deliverables come out of a film project?

A master cut with the social and vertical variants, stills pulled from the film, and the graded source so the material keeps working after delivery.

How is a film project priced?

Against a written scope. You get an estimated range before anything is signed, and the figure moves only when the scope does.

Direct something with us