About

PreViz.Studio is Morgan Spadone.

The work is video village and live production: building the systems that let a director, an agency, and a client all see the same thing at the same time, and running them quietly enough that nobody has to think about them.

Portrait of Morgan Spadone in black tie.

How the work gets done

Boring, in the way you want it to be.

Philosophy
Power to output to source. Most on-set failures are found by walking the chain in order rather than guessing at the middle of it.
Preparation
Packages are built, powered, and run before they leave. Cables come labeled. It doesn’t make a problem impossible– it means the predictable ones are already behind us before the truck is loaded.
On the day
In constant contact with the AD, the director, the producer, and the keys– tracking the shot list, watching continuity, and knowing what the next setup needs before it is called. The cart stays quiet. The conversation doesn’t.
Communication
Straight answers early, including the unwelcome ones: what a location will actually support, and what the fallback is when it won’t. The work comes back when the last producer would take the call again.

Background

Sets first, systems second.

PreViz.Studio grew out of years on commercial, film, television, and music video sets– long enough to know what a production actually needs from video assist, and what it merely tolerates.

The same discipline carries into live streaming. A keynote, a concert, a match– each has the same problem as a shoot day: a lot of people depending on a technical chain that only gets noticed when it breaks. The answer in every one of those rooms is preparation, redundancy, and someone paying attention.

Morgan Spadone at a video-assist cart on a night exterior set.
Morgan Spadone working at a video-assist position on a commercial production.