Brand Video Pro · The Studio

Five directions for the new site. Every one of them works.

These are complete sites, not pictures of sites — homepage, About, Gear, the channel review, corporate days, a blog with four posts and a contact page. They share every word; only the look changes. Open each one on your phone as well as your laptop.

The five

All five are built from the two directions Chris liked — the photography-led one and the paper-and-ink one — and each keeps exactly one idea.

Skyline: the headline set into the sky of a full-width field photograph
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Skyline

The heading lives in the sky.

Every part of the story opens on one of his photographs, with the heading set into its sky. No motion, no ornament. The pictures and the words carry it.

Open Skyline →brandvideopro-skyline.matewishkey.com

 Contact Sheet: a grid of photograph and text tiles with frame numbers
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Contact Sheet

A photographer's proof sheet.

The whole page is tiles on a cream ground with a hairline gutter. Photographs are tiles, the headline is a tile, the eight things are eight tiles. Each frame is numbered.

Open Contact Sheet →brandvideopro-contact-sheet.matewishkey.com

 Postcard: a large photograph card with a handwritten headline and a stamp-shaped button
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Postcard

Written from a walk.

One big postcard to open — his photograph on the front, the headline handwritten across the sky, the stamp is the button — then every section is another card pinned to the paper board.

Open Postcard →brandvideopro-postcard.matewishkey.com

 Long Walk: a path to the horizon behind the page, with paper cards floating over it
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Long Walk

One photograph, and it moves.

A path running to the horizon sits behind the whole page and pans slowly as you scroll, the way the view moves when you walk. The words sit on paper cards, with the field showing through the gaps.

Open Long Walk →brandvideopro-long-walk.matewishkey.com

 Two Colours: paper and ink type with a single full-colour photograph
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Two Colours

Paper, ink, and his photographs.

No accent colour anywhere — the photographs are the only colour on the page, so there are three and each is large. One hand-drawn underline is the single mark. Chris's red appears exactly where it belongs: on his jacket.

Open Two Colours →brandvideopro-two-colours.matewishkey.com

Why a new site at all

We measured the current brandvideo.pro the way Google does. The full report is here, with every page of the site crawled.

brandvideo.pro today, on a phone
8/100Lighthouse performance
29.8 suntil the main content appears
79 MBdownloaded for one page
28 of 31pages with no description
Read the audit →

Every site above ships a still photograph where the old one streams autoplaying video, self-hosts its fonts, and carries a title, a description, one heading and alt text on every image. Each was measured against the same checklist before it went up.

Measured live, on a phone

Same tool and settings as the audit of the current site (Lighthouse, mobile, default throttling), run against these deployments over HTTPS. The current brandvideo.pro scores 8 for performance on the same test.

SitePerfA11yBest pr.SEOLCPTBTRequests / weight
Skyline981001001002.2 s0 ms11 / 361 KiB
Contact Sheet961001001002.6 s0 ms12 / 283 KiB
Postcard951001001002.7 s0 ms14 / 467 KiB
Long Walk941001001002.9 s0 ms12 / 362 KiB
Two Colours941001001003.0 s0 ms8 / 290 KiB

For scale: the current site's homepage is 221 requests and 80,839 KiB.

What these are not, yet

The contact form is wired but does not send until Cloudflare Email Service is set up for Chris's address — it fails closed and says so, rather than pretending. There is no analytics yet. And the copy is a proposal built from the facts on his current site; the facts are his, the wording still needs his eye.