Crew filming outdoors with a gimbal rig at golden hour

Video production · Scottsdale, Arizona

Video Production for Scottsdale Brands

Scottsdale brands live in the luxury lane, and luxury is where Influence Studios has receipts. The team that shot Lamborghini's Huracan Tecnica campaign in West Hollywood and 4K Rolls-Royce features produces automotive content, resort films and high-end brand campaigns for Scottsdale businesses.

~30 min from Old Town Scottsdale via Loop 101

Why Scottsdale

Local knowledge. National-grade craft.

From Old Town to Silverleaf, crews film on location, or bring the production west to the Glendale stage when the shot calls for a 30x10 ft LED wall or a seamless cyclorama instead of a location that will not hold still.

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The Airpark and auction season

The Scottsdale Airpark packs exotic dealers, jet hangars and showrooms into a few square miles, and WestWorld turns January into auction week. Rolling footage, hangar sets, and controlled beauty passes on the cyc for cars that should never be shot on asphalt. Lamborghini, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce are already on the reel.

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Where the frontage is the pitch

Golf and water carry a listing at McCormick Ranch and Gainey Ranch, privacy and stone carry it at DC Ranch and Silverleaf. Twilight architectural sets, aerials along the fairway line, and amenity films for the resorts on the Scottsdale Waterfront.

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Old Town to Fashion Square

Gallery blocks, patio season and the luxury retail run at Scottsdale Fashion Square, plus the gala and activation calendar that keeps WestWorld busy from the auctions through the Arabian Horse Show. Coverage cut and delivered while the room is still talking about it.

Areas we shoot in Scottsdale

On your street, not just in your city.

Crews work these Scottsdale neighbourhoods and corridors regularly, so call sheets, parking and permits are a known quantity before the shoot day.

  • Old Town Scottsdale
  • the Scottsdale Airpark
  • McCormick Ranch
  • Gainey Ranch
  • Grayhawk
  • DC Ranch and Silverleaf
  • the Scottsdale Quarter corridor

Locations worth building a shot around

  • Old Town Scottsdale
  • Taliesin West
  • WestWorld of Scottsdale
  • the Scottsdale Waterfront and Soleri Bridge
  • Scottsdale Fashion Square
  • Pinnacle Peak and the McDowell Sonoran Preserve

Photography in Scottsdale

Luxury stills: property, resort and exotic inventory

Scottsdale photography is mostly about surfaces that have to read expensive. Twilight architectural sets for Silverleaf and Paradise Valley listings, aerials over golf frontage, suite and amenity coverage for resorts, and cocktail and plating stills for Old Town rooms. Vehicles go the other direction: cars roll onto the 2,000+ sq ft cyclorama for seamless beauty passes, or in front of the 30x10 ft LED wall when the brief wants a canyon road behind the car and nobody wants to close one. Stills and motion are art-directed together, so the print ad and the spot look like the same campaign.


Shoot on location here, or bring it to the Glendale portrait studio: five standing sets including a motorised six-colour seamless wall, a Victorian book wall and a 150 sq ft grass wall, from $49/hr.

See the portrait studio
Cinema camera rig on a production stage at Influence Studios in Glendale

The studio anchors it

The stage behind every Scottsdale shoot.

When the location won’t cooperate (heat, light, noise), production moves to our 10,000 sq ft Glendale facility: a 30 ft LED volume wall, a 2,000+ sq ft cyclorama stage, a podcast suite, and standing sets. Every space books by the hour, online.

Good to know

Scottsdale questions, answered.

Yes, and the schedule is the hard part, not the camera. WestWorld in January runs on a docket, so the window on any single car is short and it moves without warning, and floor access runs on the auction house's credentials rather than ours. What works: shoot the car properly before the hauler leaves, rollers plus a controlled beauty pass, then treat the lane and the hammer as coverage instead of as the campaign. Book it in the fall. By the first week of January every crew, grip truck and hotel room in this city is spoken for.

It is a house specialty. National automotive campaigns, rolling footage, studio beauty work on the cyc wall and 4K review films, for marques including Lamborghini, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce. Paint is unforgiving, so lighting and grade get the time they need instead of the time that is left over.

Small footprint, short window, and a plan that respects paying guests. Housekeeping schedules and check-out gaps decide the call sheet, crews work with battery lighting instead of running cable through a corridor, and guests never end up in frame without a release. Anything the property genuinely will not allow gets rebuilt: the interior on the LED volume wall, the vehicle on the cyc, and nobody negotiates for a shot that can simply be made.

Put Scottsdale on screen.

Tell us the project type, budget, and timeline. A producer calls back within one business day.