The Shore Season Slate · 2026 — Hollywood East Films

One deliverable. Not the whole package.

This is just the brand film.

A 60-second brand film for Gabriella's — one shoot day, edited to feel like the room itself. Cinematic, atmospheric, no narration. The kind of piece that lives on a homepage for a year.

This is one of five deliverables in The Shore Season Slate. Plus 20 editorial photographs, 6 hand-crafted vertical pieces for Instagram and TikTok, a tagged b-roll library, and a 30-day posting playbook.

What you're watching

Deliverable 01 of 05

Client

Gabriella's

Production

One shoot day

Deliverable 01 / 05 · Brand Film

The Shore reality

Memorial Day to Labor Day is the entire year. Every Shore business is playing the same fourteen-week game — and the ones who win it already look unmissable on a phone screen by the first weekend of June.

Hollywood East Films

The tourist deciding between three restaurants in Asbury, two hotels in Spring Lake, or a half-dozen shops in Point Pleasant is doing all of that research on Instagram and TikTok. The decision happens fast. It happens visually.

What wins the scroll isn't a logo or a deal. It's a moving image of a place that looks like somewhere they'd rather be.

That's what this slate delivers — for five businesses, in time for the only fourteen weeks that matter.

The offer

The Shore Season Slate. One shoot day, five deliverables, a summer's worth of ammunition.

DELIV. 01

The Brand Film — 90 seconds, cinematic

The hero piece. Horizontal 16:9 and vertical 9:16. Color graded, sound designed. Lives on your homepage, your YouTube, your pre-roll ads. Built to be the one piece of content you point everyone to for the next twelve months.

Comparable cost · $4,500

DELIV. 02

The Stills Library — 20 editorial photographs

Twenty hand-picked, color-graded photographs shot on a dedicated stills body. Subject mix is yours to direct. Web + print resolution. The kind of stills that carry your menu, your Google listing, your press kit.

Comparable cost · $1,500

DELIV. 03

6 Cinematic Verticals — a curated blend

Six standalone vertical pieces, 15–30 seconds each, hand-selected for the platform and the moment. A blend of feature edits, atmospheric vignettes, and product showcases — directed for your specific business. Six pieces, every one a calling card. Not a content dump.

Comparable cost · $3,000

DELIV. 04

B-roll Library — 45+ tagged clips

Drone, gimbal, slow-motion, and detail shots. Delivered raw and color-graded, organized by mood and subject. Enough material to keep your social healthy through Labor Day.

Comparable cost · $2,400

DELIV. 05

30-Day Posting Playbook

A custom one-pager telling you which asset to post when, how to caption it, and which three to put paid spend behind. No guessing — just the order to fire your content in.

Comparable cost · $750

The math

Brand Film$4,500

20 Editorial Stills$1,500

6 Cinematic Verticals$3,000

B-roll Library$2,400

Posting Playbook$750

Stand-alone$12,150

$12,150

$3,950

$1,500 to lock the slot · balance on shoot day
4 of 5 slots remaining · booking closes May 18

Apply for a slot →

Honesty up front

This isn't for everybody. That's the point.

Five slots, one shoot day each, and a hard delivery deadline. Read both columns honestly — if the right side describes you better than the left, this isn't your year.

Right fit

You see this as an investment in your busiest 14 weeks — not a line item to argue down.

You own or run an established Shore business — not a side project, not a "we'll see how it goes" pop-up
Your average ticket / room night / transaction is high enough that 5–10 new customers from one good post pays for the package
You can make a yes-or-no decision on a 20-minute call without "running it by the team for two weeks"
You can sign and pay the deposit within 48 hours to lock the slot
You'll show up on shoot day with the place ready and one staff member free to help us move through it
You actually want to use this content — post it, run paid spend on it, send it to your email list

Wrong fit

You're shopping on price.

Your first instinct is to ask if the package can be cut down to "just a couple reels" for less
You're comparing this to what your nephew or a $400 Fiverr freelancer would charge
You want unlimited revisions, multiple shoot days, or rotating new edits all season at this price
Your business hasn't opened yet, hasn't decided on a brand direction, or is mid-rebrand
You need three other people to approve and the soonest meeting is in two weeks
You're hoping the content alone will fix a business that has deeper problems

Apply for a slot

Six fields. One minute.

Fill out the form and pick a 20-minute discovery call slot on the next screen. I'll have your application in front of me when we hop on. No pitch deck, no slide deck. If it's a fit, we lock the slot live on the call.

Application time

~ 1 minute

Booking

Calendar on next screen

Discovery call

20 minutes · No pitch

Decision

On the call · No drag-out

Begin application

Tell me about your business.

Six fields. About a minute. If we're a fit, you'll get a calendar link to lock in a 20-minute call.

✓ Personal review · No spam · No drip sequences

Common questions

Before you apply.

Why only five businesses on the slate? +

Two reasons. First: The Shore Season Slate is a pilot — a proof slate I'm building from to set the rate at $7,500+ in 2027. The founding rate is a one-time price. Second: I'm a director on every shoot, and the math caps at five if every business gets the deliverables they paid for, on time, before peak season.

What does shoot day actually look like? +

One full day at your location, typically 6–10 hours. We scout an hour ahead, shoot the space empty, then capture lifestyle moments through your day — a happy hour, a dinner service, a quiet morning. Drone, gimbal, sticks, and a dedicated stills body. You'll have one staff member helping us move through the day. No closing your business for a film crew.

When and where do shoots happen? +

All five shoots happen in the two weeks before Memorial Day — May 11–22, 2026. We'll match shoot dates to what makes sense for your business (sunny days for outdoor spots, busy nights for restaurants, quiet mornings for retail). Currently serving Monmouth, Ocean, and Middlesex County coastlines.

What if I don't like the first cut? +

You get one round of revisions on the brand film and one round on the social verticals, included. Most clients have minor notes (which clip leads, music tweaks). Major reshoots aren't part of the package — but I haven't had a client need one in 25 years of this work.

What's the deposit and payment structure? +

$1,500 to lock the slot, paid within 48 hours of our discovery call. The $2,450 balance is due on shoot day. Deposit is non-refundable inside 5 days of your shoot date — earlier than that, it's fully refundable.

Can I see your past work? +

The Gabriella's brand film is embedded above — that's a recent shoot, exactly the standard you'd get from the slate. If you want to see more, drop me your email through the form and I'll send additional work. The bulk of my broadcast portfolio is under NDA (Survivor, 48 Hours, HBO, MLB Network), so the public reel is curated to brand and lifestyle work specifically.

A summer's worth of cinematic content,
shot before Memorial Day.