spirit of space gallery

SOS

Pricing

Our costs are calculated based on the amount of time dedicated to the project [similar to architecture services] and are billed at a standard day rate consistent with the costs of architectural photography.

Filming - $5,000 per day

Editing - $2,000 per day

Sound - $3,000 per project

All prices include multiple client rate. We invite you to share the film widely and distribute it to your client and project team.

The average Vignette is $11,000, Edited Story $22,500, and Feature $35,000.

Vignettes introduce a project through a sequence of short clips.
[Brand Revisioning with Trahan Architects]

Edited Stories provide a deeper introduction to a firm or project and often introduce a voice or voices of leadership, the clients, and end-users. For these films we compose a soundtrack and integrate the site sounds to build a complete understanding of the value added by the project. [Studio Gang Architecture]

Features are long term projects that track the duration of a firm or a project as it is designed and made. These films provide a full history of a project from fundraising to walking the landscape after it has taken hold on site. [Thrival Geographies: In My Mind I See A Line for Amanda Williams, Andres Hernandes, and Shani Crowe]

To explore the contexts behind, around, and within the studio ethos we use three primary film typologies - vignettes, edited stories, and features.

Films celebrate humanity [KCRW with Clive Wilkinson Architects]

Films transport us to places we can't see and connect us to our own memories and associations
[Kordansky Gallery for wHY Architecture]

We produce films to serve multiple purposes beyond promotion. They are for history.

They share the vision of the Design [The REACH at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts].

The REACH emphasizes the human experience to create a living memorial at the nation's capital for arts, culture, and music. Film shows us how people use space everyday and exhibits those sights and sounds for the world.

"La Tourette must not be spoken about, but must be lived from within." Le Corbusier

They reach a global audience through design innovation [WAVE/CAVE, SHoP Architects for Salone di Mobile]

Process

Shown: Working with OPEN Architecture for the Chicago Architecture Biennial Exhibition (2015)

Spirit of Space is driven by a desire to disqualify the assumption that a single image can represent a project and the needs of the people behind it.

Audiences continuously find a communication gap between space and experience. Buildings and landscapes are not what is expected when we visit them for the first time. They are either shorter or taller, lighter or darker, or sitting alongside a highway when you thought it was perfectly placed in a meadow.

We believe this gap is caused by the traditional mind-frame that art and architectural imagery should be focused on iconicity, not the intent. Additional attention must be given to explaining and categorizing the thoughts behind the effort in order to make it relevant to a larger audience.

Therefore, the art of our filmmaking lies in taking sequential authentic experiences and directing and editing in such a way that the emotional intensity of the project is felt.