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The Perfect
Sandwich

The Student Section · Austin Edition

To the teams at GQ Sports, Netflix, and Style Heros Produced: thank you for bringing The Student Section to Austin and for trusting us with this one.

Honestly, it only took being a Netflix subscriber for 15 years and a GQ subscriber for 4 for them to finally pay me.

— Jacob Perkins, Hen's Bread Productions

Shoot dateSun, Oct 4, 2026
LocationRadius Butcher, Austin
Window3 hours of filming
On cameraRyan Wingo · Chef Charlie · Greg
01 — The Creative

He thinks Radius is his house.

A playful spoof of the celebrity home tour. Ryan gives us the grand tour of Radius Butcher like he lives there, pulling ingredients and chatting up staff who have long since stopped noticing him. Editorial framing, deadpan delivery, and every ingredient treated like a product in an "essentials" video.

Ryan
Anchors the comedy

Talent plays it cool and dry. Completely unfazed. The jump cut is the punchline.

Charlie
Anchors the craft

Builds the Big Game Sammy from scratch. Hero food, macro detail, real technique.

Radius
Anchors the world

The location is the comedic engine. Greg and the staff play it straight around him.

Two cameras, always

Every line gets a wide and a close so the edit can punch in on the jokes.

Symmetry & stillness

Centered, locked-off frames, talent square to lens. Slow, deliberate moves.

Deadpan timing

Let silences sit before a laugh line. Hold on faces longer than feels comfortable.

Natural light, shaped

Preserve Radius's texture. Soft shaping only, nothing that reads as "lit."

"Hey guys, I'm Ryan Wingo. Welcome to the home I call Radius Butcher."

02 — Site Walkthrough

Radius, scanned in 3D.

These are Gaussian splats: 3D scans built from thousands of captured frames that recreate a space with its real light, color, and texture. Unlike a floor plan or a few photos, you can move through the room from any angle. We scan locations so the whole crew can see the space, plan camera paths, and place lights without having been there. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, and we'll walk it together on the call.

Thank you to Radius Butcher for opening your doors and letting us capture the space.

Interior

Tour path, meat case, stations, walk-in

Open full screen ↗
Door reveal → aisleWhere Ryan enters, the backlight we get from the windows, and the gimbal lead path for the walk-and-talk.
Meat case & walk-inSlider run across the glass for "The Collection" and the static wide for "The Cellar."
Build stationsThree boards side by side, overhead rig position, and where the relight happens at 0:55.
Exterior

Arrival, load-in, and staging

Open full screen ↗
Load-inCart route from parking to the door. Our kit rolls in on carts to save time.
Talent arrivalWhere Ryan stages before the door reveal and where the crew holds out of frame.
Base campEquipment staging, battery charging, and a quiet corner for mics and releases.

Tip for the call: if the scan feels small on Zoom, hit "Open full screen" and share that tab.

03 — Crew & Kit

Five people. Everyone cross-covered.

A tight, fast crew built for a three-hour window. Cart-based workflow, pre-built rigs, and every role able to jump in on the next setup.

Jacob Perkins Lead Producer on the ground: runs the floor and the clock, talent coordination, Radius workflow, and day-of production flow. Point of contact for Style Heros.
01

Camera Op — Movement

DJI Ronin 4D
  • Spoof tour walk-and-talk
  • Ingredient pulls & staff beats
  • Taste-test reactions
  • Double tour pass: dialogue, then clean B-roll
02

Camera Op — Frame

Sony FX9 · sticks + slider
  • Locked-off portraits & the tight 85
  • Talking heads between build steps
  • Macro technique inserts, high frame rate
  • Hero cuts in slow motion
03

Script Supervisor

Shot list · slate · clock
  • Tracks shots against the 3-hour plan
  • Continuity across both tour passes
  • Logs takes and best lines for the edit
  • Captures staff names & spellings for text cards
04

Boom Operator

Boom + wireless lavs
  • Lavs on Ryan, Charlie, Greg
  • Clean sound on the knife, sear, and squash
  • Room tone in each zone
  • Manages refrigeration hum
05

Grip

Aputure 600x · amaran · flags
  • Pre-rigs the tour path and stations
  • Soft shaping to preserve Radius's texture
  • Overhead rig for the build
  • Quick relight at 0:55 & flat lay support

Ronin 4D

Movement inside Radius

The spoof tour, ingredient pulls, and comedic beats. Fast, stabilized, no rig changes between stops.

FX9

Interviews, craft, hero

The composed, centered frames. Talking heads, chef technique, macro inserts, and slow-motion hero cuts.

FX6

Overhead anchor

Locked top-down on all three boards for the entire build. Rolls unattended so both operators stay free.

04 — Three-Hour Plan

Every minute has a job.

The crew loads in and sets up ahead of time, so all three hours go to filming. Cameras are built, lights are up, and mics are ready when talent walks in. The tour is shot twice so the edit always has clean coverage.

Pre-call

Crew setup (before the window)

Carts in, light the tour path and stations, rig the overhead, build cameras, stage releases and lavs.

Crew only
0:00–0:55

Cold open & the tour

Talent mic'd on arrival and straight to the door. Pass one with dialogue, pass two clean for B-roll.

Shots 1–8
0:55–1:10

Relight & flat lay

Light flips bright and clean for the build. Style the essentials flat lay.

Reset
1:10–2:25

The build

All three sandwiches in real time. Overhead rolls throughout, inserts and talking heads between steps.

Shots 9–13
2:25–3:00

The finish

Hero cuts, taste test, closing portrait, stills, and pickups.

Shots 14–16
05 — Shot List

Sixteen shots, four acts.

Tap an act to open it.

Cold Open

About 30 seconds · the home-tour spoof, shot with magazine polish
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1

Door reveal

A-cam35mmSlow dolly in

Ryan opens the shop door, centered, soft window light behind. Warm, glossy, overly serious.

"Welcome to my home."
2

Music gag

B-cam85mmLocked off

Home-tour music swells. He looks past the lens at the crew, deadpan. Record scratch, hard cut to silence, hold two beats.

"Wait, y'all brought that music with you?"
3

Title card

Graphics

Black frame, bold white type, cut on a butcher knife thunk.

On screen: The Perfect Sandwich | Austin

The Tour

About 2–3 minutes · each stop ends with an ingredient in his hands
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4

Walk-and-talk

A-camGimbalLeading

Camera backs down the aisle as he talks about "the space." Centered, aisles converging behind.

5

The collection

A-cam sliderB-cam macro

The meat case presented like an art wall. Slow lateral slide across the glass, macro on the marbling.

"This piece I had flown in."On screen: Ingredient No. 1 | The Cut
6

Roommate portraits

B-cam85mmCentered

Quick deadpan portraits of two or three staff, square to lens, each with a name card and a "roommate fact." Real staff names swapped in once cast.

On screen: [Name] | Always eats my leftovers
7

The cellar

A-camWideStatic

The walk-in cooler presented like a wine cellar. Breath visible, completely straight face.

8

Essentials flat lay

B-camOverheadLocked off

Everything dropped on the butcher block. Styled top-down, each ingredient popping on with a text card.

On screen: Bread | Meat | Cheese | Pickles | Sauce

The Build

About 5–8 minutes · light flips bright and clean, three stations
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9

The lineup

A-camWideSymmetrical

Ryan center, Greg and Charlie flanking, arms crossed behind their stations. Name cards for each.

10

Overhead anchor

FX6Top-downLocked off

All three boards in one frame for the whole build. The shot the edit keeps returning to.

11

Technique inserts

B-camMacroHigh frame rate

Knife through the meat, the sear, the sauce, the stack, the squash of the top slice. Clean sound on each.

12

Talking heads

A-cam mediumB-cam tight

Each person explains their pick to lens between steps. Greg on the cut, Charlie on technique, Ryan on why this is his game-day sandwich.

13

Stat cards

Graphics

Tongue-in-cheek numbers layered over the build.

On screen: Layers: 7 | Napkins required: all of them

The Finish

About 1–2 minutes
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14

Hero cut

B-camMacroSlow motion

Each sandwich sliced on dark steel, cross-section straight to lens. Ryan's goes last and gets the longest hold.

15

Taste test

A-cam wideB-cam reactions

They swap bites and argue over the winner. Played in tight jump cuts.

16

Closing portrait

A-cam85mmLocked off

Ryan alone, centered, sandwich in hand, deadpan to lens. One last line, then cut to black.

"Thanks for stopping by my place."
06 — To Lock on This Call

Open items.

Crew call & talent arrival

Confirm crew load-in time with Radius, when the 3-hour filming window starts, and when Ryan arrives.

Opening line

Lock the cold open wording: "Welcome to my home" vs. the full Radius Butcher intro.

Radius during the shoot

Open to customers or closed? Which staff are on shift for the roommate portraits.

Releases

Staff and any customer releases: whose form, and who collects them at load-in.

Food & styling

Who sources and preps ingredients for three builds plus the flat lay and hero cuts.

Stills

Frame grabs from the Ronin 4D and FX9, or dedicated stills of Ryan, Charlie, Greg, and the space.

Audio in the cooler zones

Can any refrigeration be cycled off for dialogue takes, or do we plan around the hum.

Creative deck

Full deck and references from Style Heros to finalize framing and graphics style.

Hen's Bread Productions

Jacob Perkins  ·  jacob@hensbread.com  ·  (512) 893-2709  ·  Austin, TX