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Mamphego Phasha Studios
04Disciplines

Eight ways of looking.

We do not produce deliverables. We work within disciplines — each with its own demands, its own relationship to time and truth, its own way of serving the people it is made for.

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Documentary

A documentary begins long before the camera arrives.

Research, patience, and the willingness to sit with a subject until we understand the frame through which they see the world. Subjects are collaborators, not case studies. Each project is a piece of history in formation.

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Broadcast

Something happening, once, in time.

Multi-camera, live-mixed, switched in real time — for national platforms, cultural organisations and live events. The infrastructure exists to serve a human moment: a performance, a ceremony, an announcement.

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Commercial Film

Small films that happen to serve a brand.

Thirty seconds or two minutes, observed, precise and human, and held to the same standard as everything else we make. The best commercial is the one the audience does not want to skip.

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Photography

A photograph stops the world mid-sentence.

Portraiture, documentary, editorial and cultural coverage, made with attention to light, composition and the emotional temperature of a scene. A photograph is not a still from a film. It is its own argument.

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Post Production

The edit is where a story learns what it is.

Editing, colour, sound and finishing in DaVinci Resolve. Selecting, discarding, juxtaposing, pacing. Not a finishing step, but the second and most important time a story is written.

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Creative Development

A structured conversation before a single frame.

For organisations with a clear brief and for those with only an instinct. We research, write and concept, creating the conditions in which a great brief becomes possible. We are creative partners, not consultants.

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Live Production

What should this feel like to be in?

Launches, summits, festivals and milestones: cameras, sound, lighting and streaming, directed so the people in the room are participants, not an audience. The production serves their experience first.

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Motion Design

Movement as language, never decoration.

Titles, identities and explanatory sequences designed with restraint. Clear, purposeful, never excessive. Used wherever visual movement is the most honest way to carry an idea.

In the work

Some stories are waiting to be made.

Location

Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa