About Sayyahi Studio
Sayyahi Studio is the result of a journey that began in 2017 — a path at the meeting point of technology, image and storytelling.
The journey begins with founding the digital-marketing company “Esperlos Web.”
A serious move into cinematography and gradually building the gear.
Mastering editing and post: Premiere, After Effects, DaVinci, Blender and Houdini.
Obtaining a studio license and formally founding Sayyahi Studio.
Continuing in Tehran; nearly nine years of experience across domestic and international projects.
My professional work started in Urmia with founding the digital-marketing company “Esperlos Web.” Working closely with different businesses in those years taught me that an image is valuable only when, beyond being beautiful, it truthfully reflects a brand’s identity and solves a real problem for it.
My interest in cinematography gradually grew from a side pursuit into the core of my career. Along the way I completed the gear a shoot needs and, at the same time, learned editing and post-production more seriously. Premiere and After Effects were the starting point; later, to gain more understanding and control in executing ideas, I moved to DaVinci for color and Blender and Houdini for visual effects and building more complex spaces.
The point of learning these tools was never to add more names to a skills list; I wanted the distance between an idea and its final execution to be as short as possible, so that what forms in the mind undergoes the least unwanted change on the way to production.
My background in computer engineering and programming has also given me a more technical, structured view of projects — from planning and managing production stages to choosing tools and finding solutions to practical challenges. This path eventually led to a studio license and the formal founding of Sayyahi Studio.
Today the work continues in Tehran. Over nearly nine years I’ve had the chance to collaborate on varied domestic projects and several international ones — experiences that each shaped the studio’s current outlook. Still, this website isn’t meant to be an archive of all the past years. We’ve chosen to publish only more recent work that better represents our current path and standard.
The goal of Sayyahi Studio
The purpose of Sayyahi Studio was never simply to make a teaser or hand over a video file. To be seen properly, a business needs a coherent set of services — from logo and visual identity to ideation, cinematography, editing, teaser production and web design.
That’s why, with specialist colleagues across different fields, we’ve tried to offer this path as one integrated whole — so a client doesn’t have to go to a separate provider for each part and re-explain their identity, wishes and goals each time. A coordinated team helps every part of a project, from the first sketch to the final result, share a common language and identity.
Despite the breadth of these services, on this website we focus specifically on cinematography, teaser production and how visual projects are executed — because the moving image is the core of Sayyahi Studio and the field we most want to present in detail.
Our view of AI follows the same approach. We don’t see it as a replacement for human thought and creativity; rather, as a tool that can shorten repetitive processes, allow more ideas to be explored, and help perfect the final execution. Technology is valuable when it serves thought and creativity — not when it takes their place.
For us, every project begins with listening and understanding; it continues with a precise grasp of the need, a suitable plan and careful execution, and ends only when the final result is approved by the client. We’d rather the quality of that path — and its outcome — be the clearest introduction to Sayyahi Studio.
Software & skills
Editing in Premiere and After Effects, cinematic color in DaVinci, and visual effects in Blender and Houdini.
Equipment
Sony full-frame cinema cameras, RGB, continuous and photo-flash lighting, professional microphones, drone, Ronin and stabilizers, and a full set of prime, macro and zoom lenses.
Studio
Sayyahi Studio houses both a photo/video space and a music-production studio.
International experience
Domestic projects and several international ones, including work with Turkey’s AzStar TV and companies in Canada.
Teaching
About a year of teaching logo & visual-identity design as well as cinematography.