The script desk
Two-column scripts in a shared doc — narration on the left, picture on the right. Every line is read aloud against a stopwatch before it reaches you, which is how a ninety-second film stays ninety seconds.
About the studio · Spring, TX
Prospects who arrive already knowing what you sell.
Bellerophon Reels is a small production studio on Pinto Point Place that makes exactly one kind of thing: 60–120 second films that explain B2B software before anyone has to book a call. This page is about how we think — and why the films always come out shorter than you expected.
- Makes
- 60–120 second demos & explainers
- For
- B2B software teams, and nobody else
- Billed
- Once per film, $450–$1,400
- Open
- Mon–Thu 8am–6pm · Fri to 2pm
bel·LAIR·uh·fonnounthe one holding the reins
On the name
A rider, a winged horse, and the bridle that made it listen
Pegasus was never short of power. What he lacked was a direction.
In the old telling, Bellerophon didn’t outrun the winged horse or wrestle it to the ground. He was handed a golden bridle, slipped it on, and turned something extraordinary but unmanageable into something that would carry him where he meant to go.
Most software we meet is in the same condition. Forty features, a roadmap with ambitions, a team that can demo it brilliantly for forty-five minutes — and no reins. Our job is the bridle: a script that decides which way the product flies, and an edit that refuses to let it wander toward the settings page.
It is a slightly grand name for a studio that spends most of its day nudging cursors by four pixels. We kept it because it reminds us what the work is actually for.
How we think
Our convictions, logged as an edit decision list
Every finished edit ends in an EDL — the plain ledger of what was kept, where it sits on the timeline, and why it survived. It seemed only honest to publish our working beliefs the same way.
Locked · v1
| Event | Transition · In → Out | Decision | Why it stays |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Cut00:00:00 → 00:00:06 | Problem before logo | Your logo gets the last ten seconds. The first six belong to the thing your buyer is tired of — stated plainly, in on-screen type. |
| 002 | Dissolve00:00:06 → 00:00:20 | Friction, never mockery | We show the old way with respect. The person watching is very likely still living in that spreadsheet, and nobody buys from a film that laughs at them. |
| 003 | Cut00:00:20 → 00:01:05 | Real speed, then 2× | A workflow earns trust when it’s seen working at its own pace first. Only then do we speed it up — never before. |
| 004 | HoldPre-production | Words before pictures | The script is approved in writing before a single frame moves. A rewrite costs a sentence on Tuesday and a day of animation on Friday. |
| 005 | SuperFull runtime | Captions are the cut | Feeds autoplay on mute. A film without captions is a film with half its script quietly missing, so they ship in every tier. |
| 006 | Freeze00:01:20 → 00:01:30 | One ask, held long | One action and one URL, left on screen long enough for a real person to type it. Two asks is a film that asks for nothing. |
The studio floor
Four stations and a very short hallway
We are small on purpose. Script, capture, motion and notes all happen within earshot of one another, so the line written on Tuesday is still the line being animated on Friday — nothing gets paraphrased between departments, because there aren’t any.
The capture rig
Screen capture at 4K from your staging account, with every cursor move choreographed before we press record. We ask for a sandbox login with believable data — never production credentials, never a real customer’s screen.
The motion bench
Key screens are rebuilt as vector layers, so a 2× zoom stays razor-sharp and next quarter’s redesign becomes a recut rather than a reshoot. Callouts are timed to the voice track, frame by frame.
The review room
A review link where you click the frame and type. Your notes land pinned to the exact moment on the timeline, not buried in a reply-all thread — two full rounds, built into the price.
Brief the studio
Tell us what it does. We’ll tell you how long it should run.
One sentence is enough to start. We reply during studio hours with a runtime plan and a fixed price — $450, $865 or $1,400 — rather than an invitation to a discovery call.
Three briefs we pass on
- The ten-minute webinar, polished whole
We’ll gladly recut it into sixty seconds. Grading all ten minutes isn’t the job we’re good at.
- Consumer & impulse-buy ads
Our instincts are tuned to procurement committees and second meetings, not checkout buttons.
- Live-action crew shoots
No sets, talent or location vans. Screens, illustration and voice — that’s the whole craft.
Everything else in B2B software: send it. Or ring (213) 564-1506.
Reply in studio hours
Where the work happens
Made on Pinto Point Place, Spring, Texas
North of Houston, on a residential street quiet enough to record a scratch voiceover at noon.
Most clients never visit, and that is fine — a kickoff is thirty minutes on a screen share wherever your team happens to be. But if you’re in the Houston area and would rather watch your rough cut on our monitor than on a laptop in an airport, ring ahead and we’ll put a pot of coffee on.
Studio hours
| Mon–Thu | 8am–6pm |
|---|---|
| Friday | 8am–2pm |
| Sat–Sun | Rendering, not answering |