If your Florida video production involves still or moving images of food, you’ve got a tough project on your hands. Photographing or filming food is a specialty unto itself and takes a true talent to create images that make your viewers’ or customers’ mouths water.

Have you ever gone to a small, family-owned restaurant and looked over a menu of dishes obviously photographed by the cook’s nephew? The difference between an amateur and a professional photo or video shoot can mean the difference in a restaurant’s success. That’s why you’ll never see an unappetizing image of a food item in a highly successful eatery’s media and advertising materials.

If you are tasked with a project that involves still or moving images of food, Digital Video Arts can help create a look that’ll leave you thrilled with your work and hungry for dinner. Our in-house food stylists and other film/video professionals are specially trained in the art and science (believe us – it takes both) of food styling and related set design, lighting, photography and videography. We create beautiful culinary images for print, television and online media for restaurants, grocery stores, chefs, cook book publishers food packaging companies and others.

Florida video productions involving food are right at home in our 15,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Jacksonville. Our studio includes a full prep kitchen and our primary food stylist Gloria Norton is not only a longtime Florida video production professional, she’s an award-winning cook as well.

For a look at our food styling experience visit DVA’s online portfolio. If it leaves you hungry for more information on our food styling and Florida video production services, contact us online or toll free at 888-340-1010.

They say everyone’s got a movie in them. Digital Video Arts, a Florida video production company with a top-notch staff of film professionals, offers script-to-screen services to help you launch or further your filmmaking career. Our Florida video production, film production and recording studio specialists boast decades of experience in all aspects of film and video production, from shooting to scripting to musical scoring and even food styling.

Our portfolio features multiple types of film and video productions including local PSAs and political messages, high-end commercials for top national and international companies, sports and feature programs and segments for national television networks, corporate and promotional videos and feature-length documentaries. Each of our highly specialized staff brings years of experience in film production and video production in Florida and across the nation.

Once you’ve got the idea for your film, you’ll want to get it onto paper in script form. If you’re new to film production, you might be surprised at the sheer number of elements that go into drafting a professional script. Our experienced and highly creative scriptwriters know just how to craft a script in a way that effectively tells your story or conveys your message and meets all the industry expectations. They’ve penned scripts for commercials and PSAs for television and radio, corporate and promotional videos, long-form videos and documentaries. Our team of incredible storytellers will collaborate with you fully research your subject matter and collaborate with you to create a script that exceeds your expectations.

Along with your script, our Florida film production specialists also can create accompanying materials including story boards and other illustrations and musical scores and soundtracks. And when you’re ready to get the cameras rolling, we can take your project all the way through production to post-production to packaging for distribution. Each staff member at DVA’s Jacksonville video production studios is an artistic storyteller with a specialized technical ability.

If you’ve got a film or documentary film idea in mind, call DVA today and let us help you get on your way to filmmaking success. Our Florida video production facility has all you’ll need for a top-notch project. Contact us at 888-340-1010 or via our online email form.

The entry.

The front facade.

Our 24-seat, High Definition screening room.

One of our art galleries.

The cafe, screening room and bistro kitchen.

One of our edit suites.

One of our audio suites.

One of our graphics suites.

The machine core.

Here’s a 4 image stitch of the new cafe. This really shows off the size, color, and feel of the space.

The hall to the left is the edge of the post-production wing showing one of the galleries. The dark room in the middle is the screening room. The hall to the right is toward the sales and production offices.

With the completion of our new facility Digital Video Arts’ construction blog is being transformed into Digital Video Arts projectPOSTS. We will post media from projects we work on including the final pieces, behind the scenes walk throughs, detailed discussions and deeper insights into the creative magic that happens at DVA.

As always we welcome you comments, ideas and suggestions with regard to how we can provide a better quality, more innovative, creatively progressive and simply incredible experience at Digital Video Arts.

We hope you enjoy the transformation and have as much fun reading our future posts as we have producing them.

I have started taking shots of the finished facility and this is the first of many to come. It is a composite of three images all stitched together by hand. Over 2 hours of post-production to create this image.

Today was the first shoot in our new studio for Jacksonville-based advertising agency On-Ideas. Under the leadership of Vern Weiss and Mike Woeppel, we were shooting the weekly retail inserts for Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket chain.

Cinematographer Andre Labous sets up a shot.

Andre and Jason fine tune the lighting.

Gloria Norton dresses the shot with some finishing touches.

Heather adds the secret ingredient… love.

Monday was Digital Video Arts’ first day of operation.

Business partners Britt McTammany, Clark Fivek, and Tony Haines pose for the camera.

The first edit in the new building was for long time client and friend Linda Shannon Miller for Washington Hospital.

Here are shots of the last several days of moving and getting the new facility wired, equipped and ready for business.

Bobbi, Britt & Clark talk moving logistics.

Stuart (Bobbi’s son) Britt, Chris, Clark and Bobbi install the temporary DVA sign.

Suddath brings the first of 5 truck loads of furniture and equipment.

Bill and Tony plan the machine core.

The tape library is packed and waits to be moved.

Chris, Matt, Bob and Bill work at a frantic pace to get the machine core up and operational.

Since Thursday we have been moving into our new facility. It has been chaos… while mostly controlled… it has been quite exciting. We have lots of pictures but the 12-16 hours days have made it difficult to find time to post them.

As of this post we are completely moved out of our old facility and into the new digs. Now we are currently in the process of setting up all our suites for sessions on Monday morning. Currently both graphics rooms, one audio suite and one edit suite are up and running and the rest will be online by Sunday night.

It is a very exciting time and the new Digital Video Arts will be a great place to work, play and be creative in. Please stay tuned for pictures and additional updates as we complete our move-in.

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