Everyday Magic
In addition to our multi-segment episodes, Everyday Magic is a series that highlights a place, process, or person in a focused, visual way. Shorter videos, often without narration or explanation, let captivating visuals foster interest and curiosity at a pace tailored to our viewers.
Skills
Sit with potters, painters, bakers, landscapers, physical therapists, shoe repairers, golfers, dog groomers, and so many more to get a glimpse into where they focus their efforts.
Institutions
Watch the wide range of things it takes to run busy restaurants, auto repair shops, bowling alleys, grocery stores, museums, and so many more places around the world.
Factories
Get an unhurried view of some of the machines that produce the things we interact with everyday. Follow the process from start to finish, savoring each step along the way.
Embroidery Machines.
We visited Branded Fresh to see the massive embroidery shop in action. Watch how a hat gets sewn with a custom logo by huge, precise machines.
Cake Donuts
We visited Strange Donuts in St. Louis to see how some simple ingredients get mixed and dropped into oil before getting covered in sprinkles and icing.
Throwing Pottery
We visited Garrity Tools in St. Louis to watch Laura throw some pots using clay on a potter’s wheel. She used some wooden tools to create unique patterns on the pieces.
BBQ Restaurant
Salt+Smoke let us crash their Ballpark Village location and see all the people and processes that make your lunch happen. Dishwashing, Food Prep, Orders, Cleaning, see everything it takes to run a restaurant.
Giant Jungle Gym
We got to play at Go Play! A giant, indoor playground in Chesterfield, MO. With slides, ball pits, foam pits, trampolines, zip lines, climbing walls, bikes, and more, we had a full afternoon of exploration.
Making Pretzels
Pretzel Boys welcomed us and showed us the machines that mix the dough, the conveyor belt that rolls the dough, and the people that twist the pretzels before dipping and baking!
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Our Goals for the Viewer
Spark curiosity for a child by bringing them somewhere they might not get to see regularly.
Present at a pace which lets a child truly connect with what’s happening and understand what they’re seeing.
Explore some of the things that exist around our communities that we might not stop and think about often.
The Filming Process
Our goal is to be nimble and efficient, to produce a variety of episodes for our viewers.
Using a simple kit and one or two camera ops, we aim to complete all filming in around two hours.
For each episode, we need a location release, and appearance releases for anyone featured.
We want YOUR input to shape this series together.
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