How to Make Wade Papenfus Bigger Than the Hunt
We are glad you’re into the concept, Wade. Bringing it to life is the easy part, because the heavy-hitting action footage already exists. Here is how the strategy works and exactly how we’d execute it.
You are making high quality videos that are genuinely entertaining to watch. But because every expedition takes so much effort, it can be weeks or months before anything new goes up. As long as you are always hunting for the next big thing, you remain the bottleneck for your channel’s growth.
Right now you are putting a decent amount of short-form out across social from those hunts. That keeps things active, but it isn’t a solution. Without a strategy to keep the long-form moving, and long-form is worth far more than Shorts, the channel’s real growth stalls.
The fix for both problems is the same. Build a strategy where the recording itself takes far less out of you, like direct to camera, backed by a clear pre-production structure. That is what makes the finished video feel like a brand new story instead of a re-upload.
- 1We pitch the conceptsWe go through your archive and pitch concepts that repurpose your previous videos, exactly like the Last Meal pitch, then send them over for review.
- 2We build the brief and scriptWe take your feedback and dial in the creative brief and the script for each new video.
- 3You record direct to cameraYou record the direct to camera portion from the script. Every project comes with clear direction, so you know exactly what to say, how to frame the shots, and what energy to bring.
- 4We take it from thereOnce the talking head segments are done, we take over completely. We clean up the raw takes, integrate the hunts, and handle the entire edit to build the new story.
- 5You review, we finishWe upload the first cut to Frame.io, you leave feedback directly on the video, we execute the revisions, and you get the polished version once it all feels right.
