Frame Five Media

Let’s make your business look as good as it already is.

Photography, video, design and websites for businesses where the owner is the brand. Shot, cut, designed and built under one roof, so everything you put in front of a customer looks like it came from the same place.

20 years behind the camera

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What we make

Five disciplines, one studio

Most jobs need more than one of these. You brief it once, and it is carried from the shoot to the finished page here — so nothing gets lost being passed between vendors.

  1. Photography

    Your space, your team and your work, shot in available light. Culled hard and delivered edited — not a hard drive of raw files for you to sort out.

    Open the index
    Crew braces a large pipe section as a crowd watches behind.
    A DJ at the mixer against a lit green screen backdrop
    A performer stands alone on stage with an acoustic guitar.
    Seen from behind the seated crowd, hands raised toward the LAUNCH screen.
    A woman in olive holds the framed proclamation before a painted mural.

  2. Video

    From a one-camera interview to multi-day event coverage. Planned, shot and cut in the same place, so nothing gets lost in a handover.

    See the credits
    Poster frame from D.O — electronic press kit
    Poster frame from Black Canadian History 365 — Lincoln Alexander
    Poster frame from Black Music 365
    Poster frame from Change the World
    Poster frame from Made It Moment

  3. Graphic design

    Logos, menus, signage, packaging and print files built to survive contact with a real printer, a real feed and a real deadline. Multi-year Reader’s Choice Award winner in graphic design, St. Catharines Standard.

    Everything below is the file as it was delivered. Printed pieces sit with the jobs they were made for — open Black Music Brunch or Pizza Di Nonna and the artwork is in the set beside the photographs of it in use.

    Printed welcome board on an easel beside the restaurant's wine wall.
    Nando’s bottles carrying custom Black Music Brunch labels.
    Three co-branded bottles on a plinth, planting in the foreground.
    Bar menu card reading “BAR MENU”, “SIGNATURE COCKTAILS”.
    The wordmark as a circular decal against dark glass.
    A guest laughing in black tulle against the gold step-and-repeat.
    Wordmark decal on the DJ booth, black and gold garland alongside.
    Four guests break up laughing in front of the backdrop.
    Full-length portrait; the repeating gold wordmark fills the frame.
    Two guests in black and cream at the step-and-repeat.
    Nine guests crowd into a single frame at the backdrop.
    Five guests shoulder to shoulder, balloon clusters at both edges.
    Two guests posed together, wordmark repeating behind them.
    A couple clowning mid-pose, one leg kicked up.
    Three guests raise a drink toward the camera.
    The Black Music Brunch menu: the gold ornamental Black Music Brunch lettering on cracked black slate, MENU spaced across a fork, a microphone and a glass of wine, with passed canapés on the left and mains on the right.

    Brands we have designed

    • The Pizza Di Nonna wordmark: a heavy brush script with a cluster of tomatoes over the first word and a basil vine trailing from the last.Pizza Di NonnaPizzeria
    • The EnZone Experience mark: the word EnZone in a heavy forward-leaning italic, with EXPERIENCE letterspaced beneath it.EnZone ExperienceEvent activation
    • SEAPORT in white serif caps on a navy plate inside a yellow border, a small compass rose between the words, FISH | CHIPS beneath.Seaport Fish | ChipsFish and chips
    • A brushed silver shield carrying a stylised R, wings sweeping out either side, REVOLUTIONARY RIDES beneath.Revolutionary Rides
    • A pink circle holding a line-drawn whisk over a script monogram, with cookies for breakfast in lowercase beneath.cookies for breakfastBaking
    • The Timeless Media monogram: a T and an M drawn as one continuous tapering stroke in polished chrome, an hourglass formed in the negative space where they cross.Timeless MediaWedding photography

    Also drawn

  4. Web design

    Sites that load fast on a phone, read clearly at arm’s length, and stay easy to update after we hand them over.

  5. AI

    Generated stills and generated motion, and an exhibition behind it — Maybe Might Matter, which explores creativity and technology through representation and intersectionality. Used where it earns its place in the work, never instead of a camera.

    See the exhibition
    A generated portrait from the Maybe Might Matter reel: a figure in blue and gold Afrofuturist armour, wearing a headdress that radiates fine gold spines.
    An AI-generated piece from the Maybe Might Matter exhibition.
    An AI-generated piece from the Maybe Might Matter exhibition.
    An AI-generated piece from the Maybe Might Matter exhibition.
    An AI-generated piece from the Maybe Might Matter exhibition.
    An AI-generated piece from the Maybe Might Matter exhibition.
    Maybe Might MatterMaybe Might Matter — creativity and technology, through representation and intersectionality.

Recent work

Straight off the last few jobs

Eight frames, picked from recent shoots. Keep scrolling and they advance on their own, or step through them yourself. Every shoot in full is in the work index.

Crew braces a large pipe section as a crowd watches behind.
OWWACrew braces a large pipe section as a crowd watches behind.
A DJ at the mixer against a lit green screen backdrop
SkratchA DJ at the mixer against a lit green screen backdrop
A performer stands alone on stage with an acoustic guitar.
Honey Jam — auditionsA performer stands alone on stage with an acoustic guitar.
Seen from behind the seated crowd, hands raised toward the LAUNCH screen.
Honey Jam — launchSeen from behind the seated crowd, hands raised toward the LAUNCH screen.
A woman in olive holds the framed proclamation before a painted mural.
Honey Jam at City HallA woman in olive holds the framed proclamation before a painted mural.
Backlit rack of shorts runs black through blue, red, sand.
Deke — showroomBacklit rack of shorts runs black through blue, red, sand.
Low angle on a dancer upside down, face near the floor.
Bastid’s BBQ — Day 1Low angle on a dancer upside down, face near the floor.
A performer on the mic, fist raised, hands in the foreground.
Bastid’s BBQ — Day 2A performer on the mic, fist raised, hands in the foreground.
01 / 08OWWA — Crew braces a large pipe section as a crowd watches behind.

Proof

Everything on this site is work we made

No stock, no mock-ups, nobody else’s portfolio. Every photograph, film and website below was made for a real client, and all of it is published here in full rather than as a highlight reel.

Some of the people we have made things for

On location

Rooms we have worked in

Music showcases, outdoor sets, operations floors and conference halls. Different rooms, same job: come back with frames you can actually publish on Monday.

  • Skratch Bastid
  • OWWA
  • WEAO
  • Bastid’s BBQ

At the desk

Recent design work

Identity systems and brand collateral taken from first marks through to files you can hand to any printer and have it come out right.

  • Game Face Performance Coaching
  • Sizwe Fresh
See it in use
A speaker with a microphone on stage beside the lit projection screen.
Honey Jam — launch
Stone building washed purple at night, event banners on the facade.
OWWA
Crinkled shorts on chrome hangers, coral to cream, window light.
Deke — showroom

What you would get

Four ways to work with us

Almost every enquiry turns out to be one of these. Each one lists what is included and what is not, so you can rule three of them out before you even write to us.

8–14 weeks

Launching something new

The whole visible business, built once and built properly.

  • Identity
  • Web build
  • Photography
  • Video
  • Content kit

What is included

  • Identity system and the written rules that keep it from drifting
  • Website designed and built here — not handed to a developer
  • A photography library shot for your brand, not stock
  • One hero film with vertical cutdowns
  • A 90-day content kit so launch week is not the last good week

What is not

  • Ad spend and media buying
  • Print production management
  • Legal and trademark work

One schedule, one lead, one invoice

6–10 weeks

Rebuilding what is already there

You have a business that works and a brand that no longer matches it.

  • Identity
  • Web build
  • Photography

What is included

  • An audit of what is actually costing you enquiries
  • Identity refresh that keeps the equity you have built
  • Rebuilt site, migrated without losing your search position
  • A fresh photography set for the pages that convert

What is not

  • A full rename or repositioning
  • Ad spend
  • Ongoing content — that is a retainer

Phased so you never go dark

Rolling, reviewed quarterly

Keeping content coming every month

The part most studios will not hold: the month after launch, and the one after that.

  • Photography
  • Video
  • Design
  • Site maintenance

What is included

  • An agreed asset cadence you can plan around
  • Site updates and maintenance held here
  • A standing planning call
  • One address to email when something breaks

What is not

  • A new website build
  • Community management and replying to comments
  • Ad spend

A fixed allocation of production days each month

2–5 weeks

One project, clearly scoped

A single piece of work with a start and an end.

  • Pick one: identity, photography, video or web

What is included

  • One clearly defined deliverable
  • A fixed price agreed before we start
  • Two rounds of revisions

What is not

  • Ongoing support after delivery
  • Work we cannot hold after launch
  • Hourly design tickets

Fixed scope, fixed price

How it works

Three steps, and you always know which one you are in

No mystery and no radio silence. This is what happens after you get in touch — every time, whatever the job is.

  1. We agree the job

    A call, then a written scope: what the work has to do, who it is for, exactly what lands in your hands, and when. All settled before anyone opens a camera bag or a blank file.

  2. We do the work

    The shoot, the build, the design pass. On location we travel light and stay out of the way — your event keeps happening whether we are ready or not, and interrupting it is not the job.

  3. You get it clean

    Culled, edited, colour-corrected and sized for wherever it is actually going. Files you can use the same day, named so you can still find them next year.

Dream big, we’ve got the strategy to match.

Frame Five Media

Before you write to us

Questions we get asked a lot

What does it cost?

That depends on what the work has to do, and we would rather scope it than quote you a number you cannot rely on. Tell us what you are planning and you will get a fixed price in writing, agreed before anything starts — not an hourly rate that grows.

How long does it take?

One clearly scoped project runs 2–5 weeks. Rebuilding a brand and site that already exist takes 6–10 weeks. Launching something new, end to end, is 8–14 weeks. Ongoing monthly work is rolling and reviewed every quarter.

Who actually turns up on the day?

Whoever you have been briefing, plus the crew the job needs. You will know who is coming before the day rather than meeting them in your reception.

We already have a website. Do we have to start over?

No. A rebuild starts with an audit of what is actually costing you enquiries, keeps the brand equity you have built, and migrates the site without losing the search position you already hold. Starting over is a different, longer job, and we will tell you if you genuinely need it.

Do you do ongoing work, or only one-off projects?

Both. The month after launch — and the one after that — is the part most studios will not hold, and it is what the ongoing arrangement exists for: a fixed allocation of production days each month, a standing planning call, and one address to email when something breaks.

What do you not do?

Ad spend and media buying, community management and replying to comments, print production management, legal and trademark work, and hourly design tickets. If that is what you need, you will hear it in the first conversation rather than three weeks in.

The same studio, elsewhere

Four names, one practice

These are not clients — they are the other names this work goes out under. Weddings and events, teaching photography, and an AI-art exhibition. Frame Five is the front door; the rest is where twenty years of Saturdays went.

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Tell us what you are planning

A couple of lines is enough to start. You will get a straight answer about whether this is a job for us — including when it is not.

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