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Adelaide Video Production & Corporate Video | Michael Tessari
Commercials & brand films — high-end TVCs, social campaigns and branded content
Big-budget productions get their look from a director and a director of photography working in lockstep. I bring that same partnership to a single role - shaping both the story and the image into one cohesive role so smaller productions in Adelaide can achieve a scale and polish usually reserved for far larger interstate shoots. A cohesive creative vision from first concept to final grade, and genuinely cinematic results whatever the size of the project.
Whether you're a production company or agency needing an experienced DP on your crew, or a business after commercial, corporate or brand video with real production value, I bring feature-film craft to every frame. Cinematography is what separates footage that looks fine from footage that looks expensive — and directing it myself means every shot serves the story and the brief, not just the checklist.
Planning a video production in Adelaide? Get in touch to talk through your project and timeline — or see my commercial cinematography in Adelaide here
About
Michael Tessari is an Adelaide-based filmmaker who has spent the past decade shooting feature films - six of them, including the SXSW-selected Monolith - alongside commercials and video work for South Australian businesses and agencies.
That background changes what your video looks like. The same craft that goes into a cinema release - considered lighting, purposeful framing, colour that holds up on any screen - is applied to every corporate project, whether it's a brand film, a staff story or a full campaign. It's the difference between video that gets watched and video that gets remembered. Tessari works as a one-stop director and shooter for agencies and businesses across Adelaide and South Australia, handling projects end-to-end or slotting into your existing team. His work has earned national industry awards and screened at festivals worldwide, but the approach is the same on every job: understand what you're trying to say, then make it look like it mattered.