This week while in Hollywood, I was recommended to check out Switch Studios as a possible future filming location for taping cooking shows. Switch Studios is nestled in a neighbourhood nearby the Venice Canals and isn’t your regular kitchen studio.

CEO and Founder Matt Danciger, showed me around the kitchen studio facility which is regularly used for TV commercials as well as QVC and Home Shopping segments. The kitchen studio was designed with celebrity chefs in mind and is fitted out with the latest in Cuisinart equipment, Wolf Gas Ranges, commercial refrigeration units as well as commercial quality utensils.

In terms of lighting, kitchen studio has a great deal of natural light through the two large windows, however Matt pointed out that most production companies backlight the windows or use their own backdrop to create the atmosphere required for the shoot. One of the real advantages of using the kitchen studio at Switch Studios is the ability to use boom cameras as well as overhead cameras on the cat walk directly about the bench for those required in pan shots.

Apart from the professional kitchen studio layout, Switch Studios can be used for all post production with video editing suites as well as a 30-seat THX certified digital screening room. They offer services such as non-linear online and offline video editorial of HD and standard definition (601) video.

If you’re looking for a location for your next kitchen shoot definitely add Switch Studios to your list of possible filming locations.

Switch Studios
316 South Venice Boulevard
Venice, California
www.switch-studios.com

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