Los Angeles · Est. 2016
Cinematography withintent.
A full-service production house — commercials, music videos, film, and aerial. We shoot, direct, and finish the image end to end.
Selected Work
The reel, in full.
Commercials, music videos, brand films and promos — produced, directed and finished by Optic Studios.
The Studio
A cinematographer’sproduction house.
Los Angeles · Est. 2016
Optic Studios is a Los Angeles production house founded by cinematographer Rio Allen — a director of photography with fourteen years behind the camera and a member of IATSE Local 600.
We build the image from the inside out: concept, photography, direction and finish, kept under one roof. The result is work that looks deliberate because it is — every frame lit, blocked and graded with intent. Commercials, music videos, brand films, narrative and aerial.
What We Do
Full-service, in-house.
Commercials & Brand Films
Spots and brand stories — concept, board, shoot and finish. Built to sell and built to last.
Music Videos
Performance and narrative for artists and labels. Look development, direction and color in-house.
Narrative & Film
Short-form and festival work. Cinematography that serves the story, not the other way around.
Aerial & Drone
Licensed aerial cinematography — scale, movement and reveals that ground footage can't reach.
Ways to Work Together
Start with a day.
One door, and a practice that grows from it. Most brands begin with a single film and build from there.
The One-Day Film
One shoot day, shaped end to end — a hero brand film and the campaign of cuts that follows, delivered in about ten days. The front door.
From $12,500
The Campaign
Multi-day, multiple locations, talent and aerial when the story asks for it. Scoped to the work, finished to a single look.
By project
The Retainer
An ongoing cadence of films and cuts — a steady body of work, the studio on call for the brands we build with.
From $8,000 / month
We take on a limited number of films each season. Tell us what you’re making, and we’ll tell you what the day can do.
Start a project
Let’s make somethingworth watching.
Tell us about the shoot — brand, artist, timeline. We’ll bring the camera, the crew and the craft.
Prefer email? opticstudiosla@gmail.com