ekonte builds your short-form from formats that already performed in your niche, boarded cut by cut before anyone films. No blank page, no guessing what to post. Thirty minutes on camera is your whole job.
A real board and the video it produced. Every project we take runs through ekonte, the storyboarding tool we build and use in house. No other studio hands you this before the shoot.
Most studios hand you a script, then a finished edit, and the gap between them is where the money goes. We board every cut in ekonte, the tool we built, so you approve the shots, the lines and the pacing while they still cost nothing to change.
Research first, camera second. Story structure before a single cut. Here's how a series gets made.
Who it's for, decided before what's in it. Buyers, practitioners and first-time builders are three different series. We pick one.
Hook, beats, narration, shot notes, boarded in our own tool. You approve every cut.
A numbered shot list: what to record, what to say, how long. Twenty hours of work becomes one 30-minute sitting. No camera required.
Platform-native cuts. The numbers pick the next batch.
Every series has a job in the funnel. That's what the series map lays out.
Because the board is approved before filming, any video ships as a native Japanese or Chinese version too. Not a translation, the same video made natively.
Best fit: technical companies past product-market fit, where the person who understands the product should be the one on camera. If nobody internally wants to be on camera, we're not the right studio.
I was building a startup and didn't want to spend $10K on videos that would still look like everyone else's. I'd made short-form myself, so I knew what it actually cost to produce. There was nothing in between cheap and generic, so I built the system I wanted to buy.
Every video we make runs through it. The format library keeps getting bigger, which means every project starts from more evidence than the last one.
I also trained as a voice actor in Tokyo and worked professionally. Most of that training is learning how delivery, pacing and timing decide whether a line lands. That's what the shot list encodes, which is why it tells you how to say it, not just what to say.
Haruka Takamori · Founder
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