• Visual Story Consultant
lock your story arc, staging and camera, before endless revisions burn your budget.
15 years of layout on Dune: Part Two, Furiosa, Fast X, Game of Thrones + teaching.
Now I help indie directors, film-school grads and students stop wasting months on revisions.
Where you're stuck
You spend weeks tweaking your previs… and nobody really gets it.
I've watched this exact movie play out on 50+ projects. It's not your talent. It's the trenches nobody warned you about.
01
Endless previs tweaks nobody understands
02
Pacing that feels off and you can't pin why
03
Camera work that fights the emotion
04
Revisions piling up
05
Missed festivals, skeptical investors
06
Burning nights and weekends while the budget melts
How we work together
Three ways to escape revision hell.
Pick the one that matches where you are.
Founding-client rate — First 7 projects
Trading a lower price for permission to build case studies
Layout Tune-Up
Unblock one stuck sequence.
€390
€290
/ one-time
2 sequences maximum
What you get
For who
Indie creators • Internal studio artists trying to move into Layout • Students hitting a wall on one key sequence
Previs Roadmap
Lock your core visual story.
€1090
€790
4 weeks
What you get
For who
Indie filmmakers with a short, webseries pilot, or feature pre-prod who need big-picture clarity before full production.
Story Navigator
Your weekly pre-prod second brain.
€1390
€990
/ month
Minimum 2 months
What you get
For who
Indie directors in active pre-production • Small crews juggling nights/weekends who can't afford narrative chaos.
What I do: story arc, shot staging, camera language, pacing... the creative decisions.
What I don't: execute or produce your shots for you. I make the calls land; your team (or you) builds them.
Receipts
15 years on screens you've already watched.
Less talk, more screen. Here's the work.
Workshops for schools
I teach the next generation what the trenches actually taught me.
Guest instructor at ARTFX Lille. I run layout and visual narration workshops for 4th- and 5th-year students.
No theory. Real fixes. Students leave with clearer pacing, stronger camera logic, and the confidence to defend their vision.
"Greg demonstrated excellent teaching skills. He supported every group with a positive and supportive approach, adapting easily to a wide variety of film styles. He helped students overcome staging challenges while fully respecting their creative vision."
FV
Frederic Vico
Head of 3D Animation — ARTFX Lille
"I can easily recommend Greg as a Layout instructor and colleague. He stands out for his understanding of the overall production workflow and deadlines, as well as his ability to write stories and bring them to life visually."
TS
Thomas Spony
CG Supervisor — ARTFX Lille
Case Studies
Real results. No fluff.
Before / After
From Action to Story-Driven Emotional Battle: Camera Logic Fixed
Guided Layout Workshop: Setup → Conflict → Resolution exercise
Strong staging instincts, but the camera wasn't serving the story. Composition felt random, cuts didn't build. You watch the action without feeling the stakes.
Same eye, now driven by the story. Pacing builds, transitions smooth out, each cut lands the emotion. A scattered fight became purposeful cinematic storytelling.
CREDIT: Olha-Mariia Yurchuk
Want this on your project?
Why Me
My Unfair Edge.
I respect your unique vision. I almost burned out twice trying to impose mine on other people's films. Never again. My job is to make your story land harder, not turn it into mine.
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Big-studio cinematic eye
15 years on Dune, Furiosa, Fast X, GOT. I know what reads on screen and what gets cut in the edit.
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Battle-tested on the ground
Paris, Montreal, Sydney. 50+ projects. I've made every mistake already, so you don't have to.
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Empathetic, never dictatorial
I don't tell you 'do it this way.' I show you multiple viable paths and help you pick the one that's truly yours.
Questions
Things people
actually ask.
How long does the support take?
It depends on the offer. The Layout Tune-Up is a single 60–90 min intensive session, with actionable fixes delivered in 48–72h and a week of follow-up support. The Previs Roadmap runs 3–4 weeks, with a 3-hour kick-off plus weekly 90-min sessions. The Story Navigator is a monthly engagement with a 2-month minimum, so we have enough runway to actually move the needle.
Is this only for professionals or also for students?
Both. I work with indie directors and small studios in active pre-production, and with ARTFX / e-artsup students and graduates preparing thesis films or their first commissioned work. Student rates are available, just ask during the diagnostic call.
Do you do technical layout work or only narrative/story guidance?
My focus here is visual narration and story clarity, not executing your shots. I help you make the right creative and camera decisions so your team (or you) can lay out with intent. If you need hands-on layout production specifically, we can talk about it separately.
I’m based outside France, does this work?
Absolutely. Sessions run on Zoom or Google Meet, and I adjust to your timezone within reason.
How do we start?
Book the free 20-min Diagnostic. We look at where you're stuck, I tell you honestly whether I can help, and if yes, we pick the offer that fits. No hard sell. If it's not a match, I'll point you somewhere better.
— Last Call —
Ready to escape revision hell and make your story land?
20 minutes. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about what's blocking your film and whether I'm the right person to help.