Video production · Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Video Production for Startups and Festivals
Tempe runs on startups, students and events, and all three are content-hungry in a way the rest of the metro is not. Influence Studios builds social content engines, commercials and event coverage for Tempe brands that need volume without dropping to phone-camera quality: 5,000+ pieces of content ship out of this team every year.
Why Tempe
Local knowledge. National-grade craft.
The Tempe playbook is batch shoot days, podcast production in a sound-treated suite, and a post team close enough to turn a Thursday shoot into Monday's posts.
Six square miles of employers
The Novus Innovation Corridor is still going vertical beside Mountain America Stadium, State Farm fills the towers at Marina Heights on the lake, and ASU Research Park holds down the south end. Launch films, product demos and founder stories built to hold up in front of an investor.
A city that makes more shows than it has rooms for
The 500 sq ft sound-treated podcast suite seats up to six with cameras, lighting and audio already rigged, which is why Mill Avenue founders, university-adjacent creators and Tempe agencies book it in blocks. One sitting yields the episode, the audio master and a month of clips off the back of it.
Four locations without moving the truck
Tempe hands you frames the rest of the metro cannot: Town Lake with a skyline behind it, the Mill Avenue Bridge at dusk, Hayden Butte for the elevated wide, the hard geometry of Tempe Center for the Arts. They sit within a few blocks of each other, which is how a single day covers four looks.
Areas we shoot in Tempe
On your street, not just in your city.
Crews work these Tempe neighbourhoods and corridors regularly, so call sheets, parking and permits are a known quantity before the shoot day.
- the Mill Avenue District
- Maple-Ash
- the Novus Innovation Corridor
- Marina Heights
- Papago Park Center
- the Rio Salado corridor
- Warner Ranch in South Tempe
- The Lakes
Locations worth building a shot around
- Hayden Butte (A Mountain)
- Tempe Town Lake and the Mill Avenue Bridge
- Mountain America Stadium
- Tempe Center for the Arts
- Tempe Beach Park
- Tempe Marketplace
Photography in Tempe
Team photography at hiring speed
Tempe companies hire in cohorts, so their photography has to keep up. A whole engineering or sales team cycles through the motorized six-color seamless in one afternoon, everyone gets matched crops for the about page, and the same lighting setup is repeatable six weeks later for the people who started late. The same booking covers founder portraits, speaker and panel headshots for conference season, and product-in-hand stills for the launch deck. Stills also come out of podcast days: one session in the suite yields the episode video, the audio and a set of guest portraits for the show art.
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
The studio anchors it
The stage behind every Tempe 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
Tempe questions, answered.
It can, and Tempe companies lean on it harder than most, because a startup posting four times a week burns through a quarter of content before the quarter starts. The day gets engineered backwards from the posting calendar: wardrobe changes blocked out, a shot list that banks hooks rather than scenes, two setups running so nobody waits. What comes back is weeks of vertical cuts, already edited, captioned and scheduled, not a folder of raw files and a problem.
It is a permissions question, not a production one. Commercial filming on a university campus is cleared by the university rather than the city, and anything using the marks, the mascot or a shot that implies endorsement needs its own approval, which takes longer than the shoot does. So we plan two versions: the campus scenes we get cleared, and a version built on Mill Avenue, at Town Lake or on the standing sets in Glendale that tells the same story borrowing nothing. Nobody loses a launch date waiting on a signature.
Regularly, and the plan starts with access rather than cameras. The Festival of the Arts closes Mill twice a year, Tempe Beach Park runs its own music calendar, and Ironman turns Rio Salado into a closed course, so credentials, cart access and where an operator may legally stand all get settled weeks out. Influence has covered M3F Music Festival and the Super Bowl LVII activation circuit, so the scale is familiar. Sponsors get their cut while the event is still being talked about.
Put Tempe on screen.
Tell us the project type, budget, and timeline. A producer calls back within one business day.