Total Studio Reel

An opening has one job: to make the room sit up before anyone says a word. The lights go down, the screen takes over, and you get about thirty seconds to say who’s about to speak.

So when Iván Coello Carranza from Total Studio called us a week before LADFEST 2026, the ask was simple: an opening that walks in the way Total does. Demanding, ambitious, a little imposing.

Total build brands, not edits, so we took on the whole piece. The brief asked for a minute. We agreed on thirty seconds, because a calm pace isn’t Total. We cut it to the music in three moves: a bold start, one short breath, and a fast, hard finish. Hand-made motion in After Effects, a touch of AI for the 3D shots, and most of the five days spent in the timeline.

It opened Total Studio’s talk at LADFEST 2026 in Lima. Afterwards, the team told us it was exactly the opening they wanted.