Headrush Media

head rush Media — film, design and campaigns from Pretoria

Film, design and campaigns. One studio.

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Culture Club — dessert under dry-ice smoke Red Alfa Romeo 4C panned at speed Boxer mid-punch against neon bag lighting DWSSC match play in front of a full touchline

The idea that leaves the brief should be the one that reaches the audience.

Most of the time it is not. It gets handed to a production house, then an agency, then a media buyer, and each one sands a corner off. We kept all three in the same room so nothing gets lost in the handover.

Culture Club — chef plating a course

Production, brand design and marketing under one roof.

Brands we have shot for:

Culture Club, MetaLab, Luxity, Discovery, Ford Performance, Messe Frankfurt, RocoMamas and Bakehouse.

Selected work

ONO brunch flat-lay with coffee and fresh plates
ONO branded coffee cup beside a salad bowl

ONO

Client — Food & hospitality

Menu stills, flat-lays and in-store coverage, built to a template the team keeps posting between visits.

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Athlete lit in neon in a MetaLab gym shoot
MetaLab supplement tub held up against LED lighting

MetaLab

Client — Fitness

A supplement brand shot as a training campaign rather than a product catalogue.

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Porsche 911 GT3 RS parked against Dubai architecture at dusk
Close detail of a Porsche GT3 RS rear wing and red centre-lock wheel

Circuit & road

Ongoing — Motorsport

Festival of Motoring, historic racing, superbikes and road cars — Pretoria to Dubai.

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Player striking the ball at a DWSSC match
Two players contesting the ball on the wing

DWSSC

Client — Sport

Season-long match coverage, turned around fast enough to post the same day.

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The range 14 frames

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What we do

Production

  • Brand films
  • Social-first video
  • Event & live coverage
  • Product & lifestyle photography
  • Motion graphics & titles
  • Editing, sound & grade

Brand films, social-first edits, event and live coverage, photography and motion. Planned, shot and cut in-house.

Brand & design

  • Identity & logo systems
  • Art direction
  • Campaign key art
  • Social templates
  • Print & large format
  • Web design

Identity systems, campaign art, social templates and the layouts everything else gets built on. The part most production houses outsource.

Marketing

  • Paid social campaigns
  • Search & SEO
  • Content strategy
  • Email & CRM flows
  • Landing pages
  • Performance reporting

Paid media, content strategy and reporting that says what happened and what to do next, not just what the dashboard did.

How it runs

Overhead view of a chef's table service in progress

Brief

We ask the awkward questions early, while they are still cheap. Audience, outcome, budget, deadline — written down before anyone picks up a camera.

Luxity — apparel under studio lighting

Direction

Concept, look and a production schedule, presented as something you can actually approve rather than a mood board and good intentions.

Culture Club — plated courses lined up on the pass

Make

Shoot, design, edit, build. Review points are set in advance so nothing lands as a surprise in the final week.

Festival of Motoring — historic prototype and crew on the grid

Release & measure

Delivered in every format the platform actually wants, then tracked — so the next round starts from evidence instead of opinion.

Got something worth making properly?

Tell us what you are building and what it needs to do. We come back with an approach and a number.