Hey i’m sean!
I’m subleasing space on my ROAR website for my portfolio.
ROAR is my organization for dads - which is the role (“daddy”) I care most about - and I’m currently in production of my first feature-length doc called “Silly Cannonballs.” You can sniff around that project if you click the logo above.
To snoop on what I’ve been up to since 2022, and to see some of the HOF work (in my own mind), you can scroll down OR hit the accordion and jump the shark to the sections you want to see (psst. they say don’t ever jump the shark).
If you want to know my creative process, there’s a picture of it right below this intro.
Hope you enjoy!
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I was in-house here for the last 2ish years. There’s a longer story if you wanna read it.
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This is my bread and butter. I’ve been in video production for 15+ years.
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I really enjoy shooting photos, it’s not my main squeeze, but when the opportunity comes I don’t . . . SHUTTER! (I’ll see myself out.)
COLORADO HOME REALTY
(“CHR” if you’re naughty)
BRAND/CREATIVE DIRECTION + VIDEO + PHOTO + DESIGN + WEB DESIGN + COPY + CAMPAIGN + CARPENTRY + OFFICE COMEDY
ROLE
CREATIVE MANAGER (*cough DIRECTOR)
WHEN
AUG ‘23 - AUG ‘25
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I was hired in the “Creative Manager/Director” role to refresh CHR’s brand and image through almost every creative discipline there is.
CHR sold to another RE company in Aug ‘25.
A highlight of what we accomplished:
Total brand-refresh - updated logo + identity, new brand guidelines, style + imagery, voice
Overhaul of physical + digital agent and consumer resources
Web design - lead creative and design (UX and style) of new company website, agency collaboration
CHR’s first ever CTV campaign + many, many, many Video/Photo/Graphic Design assets for campaign
Lead copy + story for recruiting newsletter during the last month of CHR driving an 8-17X click rate and a jump in opens by 15-40 points (30-100% relative open rate increase)
Creative Direction consultation for sister-brand Modern Mortgage refresh (style, tone, voice, imagery)
Various video productions/campaigns for consumers + industry + internal including live-stream event production
Onboarding for new + existing agents: Headshot/portrait combo for every agent + optional bio video
Built a studio in our office for agents to utilize for their own content needs, consulted + outfitted film/photo gear
Special philanthropy project for “Connors K9 Paws” with full video production + photo package (this was really fun)
DIRECTOR
BRAND STORY DIRECTION + VIDEO PRODUCTION
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My passion is directing and story-exploring/developing/discovering/telling.
What lights me right up is diving as deep into the emotional undercurrent of brands and people, and crafting a film that gives a platform for that narrative to breathe.
My heart is rooted in “deep calling to deep at the roar of your waterfalls” - which, yeah it’s a verse in the Bible, but it’s also my testament that what I want to pull from a story isn’t surface value.
Every project I direct is approached with a full heart, an unshakeable desire to dig for the deepest truths, and an unwavering dedication to the filmmaking/storytelling craft.
I’m far from the best, but I think these productions below represent some of that drive.
PHOTOGRAPHER
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I don’t want to be a commercial photographer. This is an art that I hold dear to my heart, and the word “content” has bullied a lot of this practice.
I use photography to serve, and sometimes that means on set. But, I like off-set work the most.
I LOVE portraiture. It’s the closest to directing that I can get to without directing. Diving into someone’s personality and identity, capturing that through lighting and posing and location. Great portraiture is an entire film.
I’m most inspired by fine art composition, and that discipline in the street realm. I’ll spend an hour standing in a single spot framed to a certain comp and wait for the perfect subject in that perfect spot, and that’s zero time wasted for me.
Product photography can blur some of those lines for me when I’m able to compose a scene. I love styling, I’m inspired by great stylists, and I try to employ form and structure as often as I’m able.
PRODUCT + PORTRAIT + PERSONAL
