We’re Mondo…
…a Vermont video production company with 15 years of experience creating videos, photos and visual campaigns for brands across America. From creative concept and strategy to post-production and distribution, Mondo specializes in working with marketing agencies and marketing professionals to bring your message to the world.
What sets us apart?
We’re extremely nimble. From the moment you call us with your video idea, we’re ready for action. We can usually be on site shooting within 2 weeks of the first call, and we can turn around an edit in another 2 weeks. Whether we’re flying across the country or shooting near home in Vermont, our agile video and photo team is designed to be mobile and efficient without sacrificing quality.
If you’re in marketing, we’re your people. We’ve been producing videos and campaigns for marketing agencies and marketing professionals since 2010. So we have the utmost respect for your audience, your clients and your budget.
Our Team
Luke Q. Stafford
FOUNDER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Luke’s love for video started with an 8th grade class project to produce his own version of the Greek myth “Theseus.” His love for Vermont began on a snowboarding trip to Stratton as a kid. In 2010 he founded Mondo in Brattleboro. In the subsequent years he would add digital marketing to Mondo’s service mix, allowing the company to take on bigger projects that mixed video production with social media, advertising and website development projects. In 2019, Mondo pivoted to once again focus solely on video production. Luke works closely with clients during pre-production, including strategy, concepting, and scripting. Luke lives just outside Brattleboro with his wife and two daughters.
Shane McFalls
VIDEOGRAPHER & ART DIRECTOR
Shane is Head Videographer and Art Director at Mondo Mediaworks. He is Mondo’s principal onsite shooter and oversees all shooting, editing, motion graphics, color correction and audio mixing. Shane’s video career got started as a teenager with a camcorder, making videos of his friends skiing in central New York. He would go on to produce award-winning ski-movies while traveling around the globe. He currently lives at the top of a mountain with his wife, children, cat and chickens.
Josh Steele
PHOTOGRAPHER
Josh Steele is Mondo’s Vermont-based photographer. From portraits, to landscapes, to candids, to product photography, Josh is Mondo’s go-to guy behind a still camera. He often collaborates with Mondo’s videographers to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and capture still photos while on video shoots. Josh is an avid outdoor adventurer, spending his free time hunting with his dog, Yaz, fishing, or photographing wildlife. He also restores vintage motorcycles to award-winning status in his backyard garage/shop. He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont with his partner and dogs.
History
If we’re going way back…
1986
Luke’s parents bring home a Panasonic PV-210D camcorder to record family moments. Later, Luke and his best friend will use it to produce their first video.
...it all started when Luke’s parents purchased a VHS camcorder in the late 1980s. Luke immediately became fascinated with the concept of recording live action and then playing it back for an audience. In the eighth grade Luke and his best friend, Pat, convinced their English teacher to let them make a reimagined version of the Greek myth, “Theseus.” They got an A, but more importantly they had a blast.
2002’ish
To make ski videos, Shane borrows his first “real” camera from a friend. It had a broken viewfinder, so he relied on a super wide fisheye lens to ensure his subjects were in frame.
Luke took all the film and video classes available at his college, just as film was moving aside to let digital video take over. Eventually, he found himself in the marketing department at a Vermont ski resort, where he met and teamed up with Shane. YouTube and Facebook were just beginning to become household names, and online video was about to explode. Luke and Shane spent an entire ski season making high-energy (sometimes ridiculous, if we’re being honest) marketing videos for the resort. Although the two videographers didn’t yet know it, the Mondo seed had been planted.
2008
Luke and Shane meet for the first time while working together at a ski resort. Armed with a hand-me-down Canon Optura miniDV camera, they begin producing marketing videos for web and social media.
It was 2010. With the ski season over, Luke realized he could start his own video production business and “see if this YouTube thing lives up to the hype.” Shane would spend the next several years travelling the world with a pair of skis and a camera bag, making videos for a ski brand. Back in Vermont, Luke secured his first gigs making videos for local Vermont organizations like Vermont Performance Lab and Grafton Village Cheese Company, armed with a simple Flip cam. By this time Facebook and YouTube were growing exponentially, so Luke added social media management to his services, hired his first employee, and started building a marketing agency to boot. By now, Mondo was able to afford more professional camera gear, including DSLR cameras, lavalier microphones and a lighting kit.
More and more clients signed on for Mondo’s services, which now included website development, digital advertising, SEO, email marketing and social media management.
2011
With more and more clients signing on for productions, Luke upgrades Mondo’s primary camera to a Canon 60D.
Mondo’s video quality improved dramatically over the next few years. By 2015, Shane decided he’d had enough of “van life,” and Luke convinced him to return to Vermont and take over Mondo’s video production services. Other marketing agencies in the region began hiring the agency to produce everything from television commercials to corporate videos to quirky social media content. Mondo’s video department continued to grow steadily, and in 2018 the decision was made to wind down marketing services and focus on what Mondo always did best: video.
These days, Mondo works closely with marketing agencies in New England and beyond, serving as their video production partner. Mondo also works directly with in-house marketing professionals in industries like manufacturing, education, travel and tourism, food and beverage production, nonprofits and hospitality.
While they’ve upgraded their equipment several times since that first Flip cam, the core principle has remained the same: make great videos, and maybe even have some fun while doing it.
Nowadays
A quiver of Sony cameras — FX6, FS5, FX30, a1 still camera — serve Mondo’s go-anywhere, do-anything production needs.
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