SVAD Productions
SVAD Productions is a multi-disciplinary creative agency.
Southern's student creatives work under professional producers, project managers, and creative directors who ensure a focused, transparent process and a finished product designed to meet your goals.
What we do
Animation & Motion GraphicsExplainer Videos | Animated Infographics | Event Openers | Custom Motion Graphics
Portfolio
Faith at Work: Woodstock, Ontario
The North American Division of SDA commissioned a docu-series to highlight the human impact of their Pentecost 2025 gospel proclamation initiative. We told the story of how an unknown local church built bridges in their community... by planting a garden. We also designed graphics for the series.
Southern Adventist University Anthem
This narrative TV spot follows one student's life-changing journey at Southern — showcasing the school's campus, culture, and long-running legacy of missional education.
ACE Academy Anthem
ACE Academy needed a brand video that could speak directly to the pressures K-12 leaders face and remind them they're not alone. We crafted their first-ever brand piece — a message of solidarity and support built to resonate with educational leaders across the Adventist school system.
EdTalks Event Trailer
ACE Academy was organizing a TED Talk-style event at an conference for educators, and they wanted to position themselves as a fresh, future-focused voice in the education space. We created a bold, energizing event promo to match.
My Southern Story: Trevor Cain
We partnered with Southern's marketing team to highlight student stories across a variety of academic departments on campus.
U3: Uncertainty of Making a Feature Film
Produced in partnership with the North American Division of SDA, U3 provides an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the production of Southern Adventist University's third majority-student feature film project, "All the Wrong Ingredients," produced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Giving Day Promo
Southern's annual Giving Day fundraiser needed a video that showed donors the real-world impact of their gifts. We built a lighthearted narrative piece that drove engagement on the day it mattered most.
Why work with us?
- You're a forward-thinking leader who values high-craft, audience-focused visual storytelling.
- You want a creative partner to help you rethink how to represent your organization visually.
- You're covering too much with too few people and lack dedicated video production or design capacity.
- You've got a product, campaign, or initiative to highlight.
- You want to invest in the next generation of creatives without forfeiting strong creative direction and a reliable process.
Our Process
Although the particulars vary across projects, we employ the same basic, proven process across all our work.
We start with a conversation. In a brief, no-cost discovery meeting, we discuss what you're trying to accomplish, why now, who needs to see this, who the stakeholders are, and whether it makes sense for us to work together. If so, we'll suggest next steps and craft a proposal.
After signing a formal agreement, we enter the creative development process. Depending on the project, this can mean a script or interview plan for a film, storyboards for an animation, or audience research and early concepts for a design project.
Once the plan has been approved by all parties, our hybrid professional-student teams bring your approved script, storyboards, or design concepts to life using industry-leading equipment and software. On film shoots, we handle scheduling, locations, production paperwork, and all other logistics.
You'll review project progress and provide feedback and approval at scheduled checkpoints, whether that means cuts of a film or animation or drafts of a design. We review every version before you see it and incorporate your feedback into subsequent versions.
We'll send you final files in the formats you need, ready for distribution. Afterward, we'll meet briefly to review what worked and what we can do better next time.
FAQs
How does your process differ from project to project?
That said, almost everything we create contains and builds upon the general process outlined above. If you have any questions regarding our processes for specific project types, please contact us.
How do you price projects?
How long do projects usually take to complete?
That said, we're sometimes able to accommodate rush jobs, especially during summer break. If you have any questions regarding timeline feasibility for your specific project, please reach out to us.
Are you available on evenings and weekends?
Can I just hire a student?
However, both these arrangements are highly dependent on specific circumstances, and most clients have found that the professional creative direction and quality control our agency provides is a worthy investment.
Where can I ask additional questions?
Connect with us!
We'd love to learn more about your project.
Contact
Brock Hall, 2nd Floor
Collegedale, TN 37315