Spotlight study
- Photography
- Moving image
- Art direction
We Frame What Language Leaves Unsaid
Two people, one blacked-out room and a lot of haze.
Ostra makes brand films and campaign stills for independent labels. We light from behind and from the side, keep crews small, and stay with a project from the first treatment to the final grade.
Ines Marrow
Teo Calder
Both, at one desk
Shared, strictly
Unit 4, Lantern Yard
- Knitwear
- Skate
- Shirting
- Headwear
- Small-batch fragrance
- Record labels
- Ceramics
- Natural wine
Selected work, straight off the contact sheet
Ember
Headwear label · spring lookbook
Teal Room
Movement label · 60-second brand film
Drift
Dancewear label · campaign film and stills
Verdant
Skincare label · launch stills
Low Smoke
Record label · live session film
Amber Hour
Glassware studio · product stills
Contour
Shirting label · portrait series
Still, With Oranges
Natural-wine label · still life
Shadow Study
A ninety-second film for an independent millinery label. One stage light, one chair, one hat, and the shadow doing most of the acting. Shot in a single day at the studio and graded warm-black, with a set of stills pulled from the same light.
Cold open — the light finds the brim
The shadow arrives before she does
Gloves, a crossed arm, a slow turn
Wide: the room goes dark around her
Title card, held for four seconds
Stills, film, and the finish in between
Campaign stills
Campaign and lookbook photography lit for mood first and product second, so the garment still reads in the dark.
- Lookbook and campaign frames
- Product on black and on colour
- Crops for web, print and social
- Contact sheets from every set
Brand films
Films from fifteen seconds to three minutes, shot with the same light as the stills so a campaign holds together.
- Treatment and shot list
- One hero film plus cut-downs
- Widescreen and vertical masters
- Licensed music, chosen with you
Edit, grade, retouch
Edit, colour grade, retouching and sound mix, done at our own desk by the same two people who shot it.
- Offline edit with two review rounds
- Colour grade matched to your palette
- Retouching to an agreed brief
- Masters in every format you need
Five steps, one small crew
01
Brief and treatment
You send the brief; we answer with a written treatment, references and a light plan.
02
Light test
Half a day in the studio with stand-ins to lock the look before anyone is paid to wear it.
03
The shoot
One to three days. Stills and motion from the same set-ups; sit in or watch the monitor feed from home.
04
Selects and edit
Contact sheets within two days of the shoot, a first cut of the film within a week.
05
Grade and delivery
Colour, retouching and masters in every format, named the way your team files them.
A black room built for backlight
The studio sits behind a roller door in Lantern Yard: a cove we can paint black or white in a morning, a hazer, and enough power to run tungsten all day. Every Ostra shoot happens here unless the brief needs a street, a field or a stage.
7 × 5 m, painted black or white
4.2 m to the lighting grid
Tungsten fresnels, two strip boxes, LED tubes
Water-based, low residue
Full, day or night
Roller door and one van bay
Priced per brief, never per frame
Every quote is fixed before the shoot and itemised. Studio hire, travel and talent are passed on at cost, with receipts.
Half day
Up to four hours, one set-up and twenty graded frames.
Full day
Two or three set-ups, forty graded frames and the contact sheets.
Brand film
Treatment, one shoot day, a 60 to 90-second film and three cut-downs.
Film and stills
One shared day: a hero film and a stills set from the same light.
Post only
Edit, grade or retouching on footage or frames you already have.
Tell Us What The Light Should Say
The label, and what it sells
What the pictures or film are for
Dates that cannot move
A rough band: A, B or C
Three images you love, from anywhere