Jason Calhounknown in certain circles as Walt

The studio · formerly So Long Saturn

Video and AI for the industries most people overlook.

This studio used to be called So Long Saturn. These days it's my name on the door. I make cinematic brand films, documentary series and YouTube channels for ranching, trucking, dealers and the trades, and I build the AI systems that let a small studio keep up with a lot of footage.

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What I make

Most brands I talk to are sitting on years of footage: walkarounds, customer stories, a service manager who's weirdly good on camera. Folders are where good ideas go to quietly become ghosts, so a lot of my work starts by digging through what you already have and finding the video worth making first.

  • Brand films and documentary series. Long-form stories with real people in them, cut to make somebody feel something before they buy.
  • YouTube channels. Strategy, packaging (titles, thumbnails, the whole fuss) and editing that keeps people watching.
  • Shorts and ads cut from footage you already own.
  • AI systems for your content. A catalog of your library, an idea engine that reads your footage and customer comments, and a room where your team can see what's in the works.

Receipts

8K → 350KYouTube subscribers in one year at BuildWitt. I was a lead on the team: the edit style, the process and the packaging.
243Kviews on TigerTough's BACKBONE launch film. Their brand videos had been drawing about a hundred.
$3M+raised in REX's pre-seed round, with the investor films and ads I made in the pitch.
20 yrsshooting, editing, directing and producing, from Fortune 500 companies to a pile of companies you've never heard of.

Selected films

TigerTough · BACKBONE launch film

The first film in a documentary series for a seat-cover company whose customers drive trucks for a living. 243K views, and the episodes after it kept going.

BuildWitt · The biggest construction project on the East Coast

From my year on the BuildWitt team (2022), when the channel went from about 8,000 subscribers to 350,000. This one has 1.78M views.

On the desk right now

Who I'm making things for this fall.

  • A Peterbilt dealer in California. A series of films about the people who keep trucks on the road, plus the AI tools their team uses to review and approve cuts.
  • Riomax. Rancher reviews, podcast episodes and shorts for a cattle supplement company, cut from interviews with the people who use it.
  • TigerTough. Shorts, ads and the BACKBONE series for the seat-cover company.
  • TrybeUp. Launch marketing and video for a men's growth app.
  • REX. Brand and creative as Chief Creative Officer.

Credits

Tesla Facebook R+Co MasterClass AWS Coca-Cola Adidas Intel BuildWitt Vicarius Curology

Plus the feature documentary 500 Feet Ahead (on Amazon Prime), several award-winning documentaries I edited, and an interview I shot with Louis Zamperini near the end of his life that was licensed for the publicity tour and home release of Unbroken.

Awards

  • Best Editing, Nice Filmmaker Festival, 2018
  • Best Picture, Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston, 2016
  • Winner, Accolade Global Film Competition, 2015
  • Editing Excellence, Videography Awards, 2014
  • Official Selection, San Diego International Film Festival, 2014

How it starts

  • 1. Book thirty minutes. Tell me what you sell, who buys it, and what you've already got on a drive somewhere.
  • 2. I dig in. Your footage, your comments and reviews, what's performed and what quietly died. That's where the first idea usually is.
  • 3. You get a plan you can see. The first video I'd make, why, and what it takes. If it's a fit, we go. If it isn't, the idea is yours to keep.

Got a drive full of footage and a story nobody's told yet?

Grab a time and tell me about it. Thirty minutes, no deck, and I'll leave ya alone if it's not a fit.

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