PRODUCTION & COLLABORATION / RAYOFLA
A person. A place. An idea that stays with you. Rayofla develops those beginnings into videos, interviews, written stories, podcasts, and longer projects. I’m Ray Brown, founder and creative lead. You work directly with me, from understanding the purpose to shaping what we make.
Discuss A Production →01 / ORIGINAL PROJECTS
02 / COMMISSIONS
03 / COLLABORATORS
04 / WRITTEN STORIES
05 / AUDIO & INTERVIEWS
06 / PUBLISHING
07 / DOCUMENTARY
THE WORK WE CAN MAKE
Some work begins with a subject I want to explore. Some begins with a commission. Each needs a purpose, the right people, and a clear idea of where the finished work belongs.
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Magyar Minute, conversations on Budapest.fm, and the developing WAR documentary each come from a different part of my curiosity. I’m interested in collaborators who can help develop the story, make the work, and understand where it could go.
Explore Selected Work →02
For businesses, institutions, destinations, and publications, I can shape a production around what you want people to understand: a filmed conversation, a short business story, a written feature, a podcast, or several formats planned together.
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The longer-term ambition is to give more local talent the conditions to do good work: somewhere to develop ideas, the right people around a production, and a credible plan for bringing the result to an audience.
04
An article can give a subject room that a short video cannot. Research, interviews, and context help people understand the person, place, or idea behind the introduction.
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Some subjects deserve a longer conversation. We can develop an interview, an episode, or a series around the people involved and the audience you want to reach.
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I build AI-assisted workflows around the work: transcripts, captions, language versions, web stories, and social releases. RayCore, the engine behind Magyar Minute, is one working example. My production experience directs how these pieces fit together, with creative and editorial decisions kept in human hands.
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My father, Harold Brown, preserved an unseen record of the life around WAR. I want to develop that archive into an independent feature documentary with experienced creative collaborators and appropriate funding.
HOW WE BEGIN
We agree the audience, creative approach, deliverables, timing, and use of the work before production begins.
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Share the subject, audience, purpose, timing, and any material you already have. A finished brief is welcome. A clear beginning is enough.
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We discuss the approach, scope, budget, collaborators, and finished formats. Credits, rights, review stages, delivery, and publishing responsibilities are settled before production.
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The work follows the agreed brief, with room for the discoveries that make a story worth telling. We keep the finished formats and intended audience in view throughout.
WORKING TOGETHER
I welcome introductions from filmmakers, writers, photographers, musicians, and other creatives with relevant work to share. A collaboration begins with a particular project and an honest conversation about what each person brings.
Publication on a Rayofla property is discussed separately, with editorial suitability and usage rights agreed. Sponsored work is identified clearly, and payment does not buy an independent editorial recommendation.
START A PROJECT
Tell me what interests you, what you want the work to achieve, and why now. For a collaboration, share a link to your work and the role you would like to explore.