VISUAL STORYTELLING
+ sOLO Creative Studio
Visual StorytellING
+sOLO Creative Studio
Visual StorytellING
+Solo Creative
Studio
01
( Selected Works )
02
( About Me )
I believe every brand is so close
to their own extraordinary,
that they've stopped noticing it.
I believe every brand is so close
to their own extraordinary,
that they've stopped noticing it.
I'm Stephen, an art director based in Georgetown, TX, working across Austin in photography, video, and creative direction. I'm the guy behind the camera, and the one directing everything in front of it.
I'm Stephen, an art director based in Georgetown, TX, working across Austin in photography, video, and creative direction. I'm the guy behind the camera, and the one directing everything in front of it.
Most of us are led and fed by everyone else’s ideas until our own become just more noise. Severed Guidance cuts ties with that, so I can find the extraordinary in a brand, a business, an artist,
and turn it into work that makes their audience notice it too.
Most of us are led and fed by everyone else’s ideas until our own become just more noise. Severed Guidance cuts ties with that, so I can find the extraordinary in a brand, a business, an artist,
and turn it into work that makes their audience notice it too.
03
( Services )
Finding your extraordinary
is half the work.
Defining it is the rest.
Photography
Digital when the job calls for it, and film when the moment deserves the weight of it. These aren’t your "get-the-job-done" photos. They’re images you'll want to stand behind and build a year of work around.
Photography
Digital when the job calls for it, and film when the moment deserves the weight of it. These aren’t your "get-the-job-done" photos. They’re images you'll want to stand behind and build a year of work around.
Photography
Digital when the job calls for it, and film when the moment deserves the weight of it. These aren’t your "get-the-job-done" photos. They’re images you'll want to stand behind and build a year of work around.
Videography
What story are you actually trying to tell? Not content made to fill a feed, but brand pieces, short films, and social content people stop for. I handle it start to finish, so nothing gets lost between the idea and the final cut.
Videography
What story are you actually trying to tell? Not content made to fill a feed, but brand pieces, short films, and social content people stop for. I handle it start to finish, so nothing gets lost between the idea and the final cut.
Videography
What story are you actually trying to tell? Not content made to fill a feed, but brand pieces, short films, and social content people stop for. I handle it start to finish, so nothing gets lost between the idea and the final cut.
Creative Direction
Before we get cooking on ideas, let's decide your why. What's the point? I ask the questions others may be too afraid to ask, then come back with the concept, the visual language, the references, and the reason all of it deserves to exist.
Creative Direction
Before we get cooking on ideas, we decide your why. What's the point? I ask the questions others may be too afraid to ask, then come back with the concept, the visual language, the references, and the reason all of it exists.
Creative Direction
Before we get cooking on ideas, let's decide your why. What's the point? I ask the questions others may be too afraid to ask, then come back with the concept, the visual language, the references, and the reason all of it deserves to exist.
04
( Process )
(01)
Discovery
This is where I find out who you are, and where this work wants to live.
(01)
Discovery
This is where I find out who you are, and where this work wants to live.
(02)
Strategy
I take everything I learned, disappear into it, and show you the plan.
(03)
Execution
Every choice gets tested in real light, real time, and real pressure.
(04)
Release
My job isn't finished when it's delivered, but when people notice it.
Let's Define
your extraordinary
Let's Define
your extraordinary
Let's Define Your Extraordinary
Stephen
Gilmore
Severed Guidance © 2026
Stephen
Gilmore
Severed Guidance © 2026
Stephen
Gilmore
Severed Guidance © 2026