Click the ovals to see my stuff.
DAMIAN Dayton* DOESN’T DO
DEMO REELS
*That’s me, I’m Damian Dayton, and it’s not that I am “above” demo reels per se. It’s that they only show off one or two sides of filmmaking. Mostly cinematography and editing, which are perhaps my weakest personal skills. I like to think I excel at results and storytelling (and Dad jokes) and also rambling on. I am also just as uncomfortably talking about myself in the third person, but I DO like alliteration a lot.
DAMIAN DAYTON
MAKES STUFF
WHAT IF?
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-Yeah, but...
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WHAT IF? ✦ -Yeah, but... ✦
PORTFOLIO
I’ve made all kinds of stuff. Mostly I make messes. But you can look through my portfolio above. I have made TV shows, Documentaries, Commercials (SO many commercials). Personal stuff, musical stuff, religious stuff, silly stuff, but I like to make stuff that I have never seen before, and I like to make stuff with other people. Usually I am WRITING, sometimes I am DIRECTING, I have even been accused of PRODUCING from time to time. Once in a while you can find me EDITING, but I am expensive, and not good at it.
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Damian started making movies as a kid. He made stuff in High School, he made stuff in College, but he got his first REAL Production job on the set of a reality show when the head producer quit. The reality show, then a travel show, then a kids show, and he was hooked.
After 20 years of Filmmaking, Damian transitioned into marketing, marketing films, marketing jewelry, marketing pillows and finding new ways and new screens and new platforms for stories.
Damian has spent the last decade making more than commerical he’s been building a digital agency that has played a key role in the 8-figure growth of dozens of companies. Building an agency means making more than videos, making new filmmakers, directors, editors, producers and programs that help people progress.
But he doesn’t just like making stuff, he likes making stuff that makes you feel a certain kind of way, stuff that makes you want to do a thing (or not do a thing) or, at the very least, think about a thing.
Don’t make “CONTENT”
MAKE “STUFF that MATTERS”
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STRATEGY / WRITING / PRE-PRODUCTION
NEW!
“WITHOUT A PLAN, THERE IS NO ATTACK, WITH NO ATTACK, THERE CAN BE NO VICTORY.”
Whatever you make you must have a purpose, even if its purpose is to be ART or learn. Before you brainstorm a solution you must brainstorm the problem. Whether I am making documentaries, commericals, short films, or children’s television, a clear sense of purpose either helps you focus on the goal, or adjust the story or respond to what you are documenting to create what you intend to create.
There is always a gap between what we intend to do, and what we have clearly done. Pre-production helps you narrow that gap.
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MAKE IT MATTER
THE SECRET TO LIFE IS TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND DO IT ON PURPOSE.
Whatever you do, make it matter. I know I make silly stuff, but I take my silliness very serious. I move with purpose and help my clients, my team, my crew and my employees focus on one goal and work on it until it is the best thing that it can be.
ANY JOB WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING WELL.
IT ALL BEGINS WITH AN IDEA
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IT ALL BEGINS WITH AN IDEA ✦
It’s all a matter of perspective.
Where you are coming from matters as much as your subject. You are always telling at least two stories.
IT ALL BEGINS WITH AN IDEA
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IT ALL BEGINS WITH AN IDEA ✦
