fashion show documentary video production agency nyc - Rasised Media Co.
Case study · Behind the Runway - A Raised Media Co. Production

The two days no one in the audience sees.

Behind the Runway, a documentary following the team behind New York Fashion Week, produced by Mylitta Butler and built by Raised Media into a trailer, a brand, and a custom website made to pitch it as a series.

Behind the Runway follows Mylitta Butler, her right hand Becky, and the designers staking everything on one New York Fashion Week runway. Mylitta brought the idea and produced it; we built it into a character-driven documentary with a trailer, a brand, and a custom website built as the pitch itself. We are showing the trailer and holding the film.

01The film
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fashion show documentary video production agency nyc - Rasised Media Co.
Behind the Runway - A Raised Media Co. Production · Fashion
02The brief

Mylitta came to us with an idea. We helped turn it into something bigger.

Behind the Runway started with Mylitta Butler, a fashion industry executive who produces New York Fashion Week and wanted her world on film. We took that idea and built it into a character-driven documentary, following Mylitta, her right hand Becky, and the designers betting everything on one runway, Gennifer, Allie, and Ligardy. From there we carried it past a single film into a trailer, a brand, and a pitch website.

fashion show documentary video production agency nyc - Rasised Media Co.
03The challenge

Turn one person's idea into a series people would watch.

Mylitta had the vision and the access. Our job was to make it feel like television. That meant capturing a real, high-pressure backstage world honestly, drawing real characters out in interviews, and cutting it all so it moves like a reality series with stakes and an arc, then building the brand and the website so the whole thing reads as a finished property.

fashion show documentary video production agency nyc - Rasised Media Co.
04The solution

Eight of us, a full crew, building a reality series out of real life.

We put eight people on it, camera operators, photographers, editors, designers, producers, and audio assistants. We filmed the backstage days and sat the cast down for interviews, then cut the two together so the film builds like a reality series, with characters and an arc rather than a recap. Around the film we designed the identity and the gold lockups, and built a custom website that works as the pitch itself, a scrollable, cinematic deck that puts the trailer, the cast, and the series concept in front of a network the way a flat PDF never could.

fashion show documentary video production agency nyc - Rasised Media Co.
fashion show documentary video production agency nyc - Rasised Media Co.
05The result

A finished documentary, a trailer, and a series ready to pitch.

Behind the Runway stands as a completed 26-minute film with a cut trailer, a pilot-ready format, and a custom website that doubles as the pitch. We are sharing the trailer here and holding the film for screeners. If you are building a concept to take to a network, this is the shape it can take, a finished story and a site built to sell it.

What we shipped
  1. Documentary production
  2. Interviews
  3. Photography
  4. Editing
  5. Trailer
  6. Pitch website
  7. Branding

Thank you to Mylitta for trusting us with her idea, and to Becky and the designers for letting us follow the hardest week of their year.

  • Mylitta ButlerProducer and Fashion Industry Executive
  • Raised Media Co.Video Production Agency
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