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I'm Deon Llewellyn, the filmmaker behind ShotXLlew. Sports. Music. Events. Portraits. Every project gets the same thing: a camera in my hand and everything I've got.
From Lynchburg high school gyms to HBCU homecomings to official music video releases — this is Virginia culture on camera. EC Glass. VUL. Heritage High School. J Henry. The community is the client list.
This isn't content creation. It's documentary work. It's making sure the people who grind hardest have something real to show for it.
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EC Glass didn't need highlights. They needed their story told. A championship-caliber program, a gym that gets loud, and a fanbase that doesn't just show up. They show out. The Hilltoppers are setting the standard and it needed to look like it.
Full season coverage from opening night through the state championship run. Court-side positioning, real crowd energy, and the detail shots that make a recap feel like a documentary: the Wilson ball, the championship banners, the Ram outside the gym. Every edit is paced around the pressure of the game, not just the highlights.
Players shared it. Parents saved it. Coaches sent it to recruits. The community felt seen. Everything runs through the Ave and now it's all on record.
Book sports coverage →Homecoming at VUL is not just a football game. It's a whole day: the culture, the alumni coming back, the energy that only an HBCU homecoming carries. The game is part of the story. Not the whole story.
Coverage ran across both worlds: competition on the field and celebration off it. The edit moves between the two intentionally. Nothing gets rushed past, nothing gets left out. If you were there, you feel it when you watch it back. If you weren't, you wish you had been.
A complete document of the day. The kind of recap that builds tradition, something the program can point to year after year.
Book event coverage →J Henry had one of the feel-good records of the year and needed a visual worthy of it. Field party. Live energy. Special guests. The video had to pull people in like they were already there.
Shot it like a live event, not a set. Natural light, real reactions, line dancing that nobody choreographed for the camera. It just happened and we caught it. The edit lands on the beat. The grade keeps the warmth of the afternoon without washing it out. The "Dir. by ShotXLlew" credit sits in the frame because it was earned.
Official video dropped on YouTube. The community showed up immediately. When the visual actually matches how the record feels, people remember exactly where they were the first time they watched it.
Book a music video →Graduation happens once. Kaelen needed portraits that captured who she actually is, not just someone standing in a cap and gown. The energy, the pride, and everything she put in to get to that moment all had to be in the frame.
The best portrait work happens when someone forgets the camera is there. That takes time, movement, and finding light that flatters the person in front of you, not rushing through a shot list. The full gallery is delivered on Pixieset: high resolution, downloadable, easy to share, and built to last.
A gallery the family actually uses. Portraits worth printing, not just posting.
Book a portrait session →Jimmy Too Swimmy didn't want another perform-to-camera trap video. He wanted a concept — a storyline that flips the whole "trapper" narrative on its head. Instead of moving product, he's trapping his own clothing brand out of a local sneaker store. The video had to carry that double meaning the whole way through without ever spelling it out.
We built two worlds that had to read as one. The performance scenes live in classic trap spots — out front of the store, posted up by the trunk — so the energy hits instantly familiar. The storyline runs underneath it: Jimmy texts the plug, slips to the backroom to re-up, then serves a customer straight out the trunk. Every re-up is merch. Every serve is the brand. Lil Swim — Jimmy's son — pulls double duty as the guest feature and the plug holding all the merchandise, so the family and the message are both in frame. The cut moves between story and performance on the beat, and the grade holds that dark uptown vibe the record lives in from the first frame to the last.
Released on YouTube — and the trailer alone pulled 3K+ views in under 24 hours before the video even dropped. When a concept actually says something, people don't just watch it. They wait for it.
Book a music video →Not sure what you need yet? Drop it here and I'll get back to you. If you already know what you want, hit Book a Call and we'll get straight to it.
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