Playframe

Playframe

Playframe

A clean, product-like site for a short-form video studio, where the videos bring all the color.

In flight

· Video agency

· 2026

· Web

Playframe project cover: site with a built-in player

The brief

Playframe plans, films and edits TikToks, Reels and Shorts for growing brands on a monthly retainer. They’re eleven people in Los Angeles with 1,180 videos shipped last year. Their site was a dark, cinematic reel page that made them look like a commercial production house, which scared off the DTC founders they actually work with.

Jess wanted a site that feels like a modern product: bright, clear, and honest about what a month with them looks like. “Our clients aren’t buying a film. They’re buying twenty good videos a month and their Fridays back.”

What I did

Three legs, in the order we flew them.

Weeks 1–3

One bold block

Neutral pages in light and dark, one sans, and color in exactly one place per page: a full-bleed cobalt section. The videos supply the rest. That restraint makes a grid of thumbnails look curated instead of loud.

Playframe: One bold block

Weeks 1–3

One bold block

Neutral pages in light and dark, one sans, and color in exactly one place per page: a full-bleed cobalt section. The videos supply the rest. That restraint makes a grid of thumbnails look curated instead of loud.

Playframe: One bold block

Weeks 4–7

A player that plays the real thing

Every piece of work plays in place, in its native 9:16 frame, with sound off by default and captions burned in. Filters split the work by format: UGC ads, founder-led, product and podcast clips. Each project shows the hook it led with and the hold rate it earned.

Playframe: A player that plays the real thing

Weeks 4–7

A player that plays the real thing

Every piece of work plays in place, in its native 9:16 frame, with sound off by default and captions burned in. Filters split the work by format: UGC ads, founder-led, product and podcast clips. Each project shows the hook it led with and the hold rate it earned.

Playframe: A player that plays the real thing

Weeks 8–12

A month on the calendar

The process section is a real calendar: plan in week one, a half-day shoot, edits with a playhead, then posting week. Project pages walk through one client's month, so a founder can picture the time it asks of them. Half a day, plus twenty minutes a week.

Playframe: A month on the calendar

Weeks 8–12

A month on the calendar

The process section is a real calendar: plan in week one, a half-day shoot, edits with a playhead, then posting week. Project pages walk through one client's month, so a founder can picture the time it asks of them. Half a day, plus twenty minutes a week.

Playframe: A month on the calendar

Outcome

Still in flight. The work CMS and the player are live in staging, and the calendar section is in its second round of edits. Launch is planned for the start of December, before Q1 budgets are set.

Past results, not a promise.

After launchPast results
Videos in the work CMSready for launch
Weeks to launchplanned

“For the first time our site looks like the videos we make, not the ones we'd make for a car brand. Mika keeps cutting things, and every cut makes it better.”

Jess Alvarez

Jess Alvarez

Co-founder and creative director, Playframe

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