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01 / Follow the workA few different worlds.
Stories, campaigns and the craft behind them.
Explore selected work02 / A wider reachClose to the idea.
Creative, production and smarter ways of making.
Explore our approach03 / Creative solutionsWhen the answer needs inventing.
Video walls and custom ways to put a story in front of people.
Explore solutions Independent by design. / Austin & everywhere.
Creative
problem
solving.
We're a small Austin studio making films, animation and video walls for companies with something hard to explain. Every project starts with the problem, and the format comes after.
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Human instinct. Expanded possibility.Explore the tree ↗
01 / A point of view
Beautiful workthat has a job to do.
We begin with what your company needs to change and who has to be moved for that to happen, and only then decide what to make. The look of a piece is what earns someone's attention, and the message is what gives that attention somewhere to go, so we build the two together from the first conversation. Sometimes the answer is a film, sometimes it's advice, and now and then it's something that didn't exist until the problem asked for it.
02 / The reel
Made to
be felt.
A short look at the work, and a fair sense of how we see things.
03 / Selected work
The work
speaks.
Brand films, explainers and campaigns for software companies, restaurant brands and apparel. Choose one to see what we made and why we made it that way.
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Schoox LMS
GumGum: Skip Erased
Learnsoft LMS
Schoox: Tropical Smoothie
SteelHouse: Trust Train
LeanDNA: Smart Supply Chain Analytics
Apparel + Casual Athletic
HotSchedules Sales Demos: Employee’s Perspective
Innography: IdeaScout IP
HotSchedules: Modules
SteelHouse: Creative Ad Builder
HotSchedules: Customer Success Services
SteelHouse Pricing Transparency
SteelHouse: Save The Carts – Timmy
SteelHouse: Save The Carts – Intro
Jefferson Lines: Driven To Serve
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Recognition / Selected honors
Good work gets recognized.
A few honors the work has picked up along the way.
Learnsoft LMSTelly · Gold · 2023
LeanDNAMarCom · Gold · 2018
Pricing TransparencyHermes · Platinum · 2016
Success ServicesHermes · Gold · 2016
Save the CartsTelly · Bronze
04 / The approach
Small team.
Wider reach.
A core team you'll know by name, and a crew built around each project.
We stay small on purpose, so the people who hear your problem are the same people who solve it. When a project calls for more, we bring in directors, crews, editors and specialists we've worked with for years, which means you get a team sized to the job without paying for an agency's overhead.
Bring us the interesting problem ↗
Who we bring in when the project calls for it
Creative
Production
Creative solutions
Rental houses
Sound stages
Production partners
Location scouts
Directors + DP crew
Casting + talent
Post-production
Sound + music
Art + wardrobe
Editors + colorists
Motion designers
Specialist crew
05 / How it starts
It starts with a conversation.
Before anyone talks about cameras or budgets, we want to understand what you're trying to change and who needs to hear it. From there we'll tell you plainly what we'd make and what it would cost.
What needs to change?
Tell us what isn't working and who you need to reach. We'll ask a lot of questions, and you'll leave with a clearer picture either way.
Shape the solution.
We come back with an approach and a scope sized to your budget, whether that's one film, a full campaign or guidance on something you'll make yourselves.
Agree before we begin.
Scope, schedule and fees go in writing, and nothing starts until we've both signed, so there are no surprises on either side.
06 / Creative solutions
When the answer
needs inventing.
Not every problem wants a film. Some want a screen the size of a wall, or a new way to put a story in front of people where they already are.
Video walls + digital signage
Video walls that make a room worth stopping in.
We plan the screens and make the content that runs on them, at any size and in any configuration, for stores, lobbies and events.
Tell us about your screens ↗07 / The studio
Good people.
Wherever it takes us.
Based in Austin since 2014, and working wherever the project is.
How we started
Jonathan Hartwig started Mojave in 2014 with a small group of creatives who loved agency work and were tired of what surrounded it. We kept the ambition and the close collaboration, and rebuilt the process around the parts that used to get in the way.
Where the work takes us
We've been remote since 2018, which lets us build each production around what it needs. We rent, find or build the space, assemble the crew that fits, and go where the story is, including the places that are hard to reach.
Who you work with
From the first call to the final delivery, you talk to the people doing the work. Nobody hands you off, and the collaboration stays personal wherever we happen to be shooting.
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Follow your curiosity.
01 / Follow the workSee what we've made.
Films, explainers and campaigns, and how each one came together.
Explore selected work02 / A wider reachSee how we work.
A small core team, and the right crew built around each project.
Explore our approach03 / Creative solutionsExplore creative solutions.
Video walls and custom ways to put a story in front of people.
Explore solutions08 / The next pictureTell us what you're
Tell us what you're
trying to solve.
Send us the problem, who you need to reach and when you need it by. We'll write back with questions, not a sales pitch.
info@mojavepictures.com ↗