01studio

Studio

A small shop
that runs big.

Mercurian Studios is a Denver production company. Small by design, assembled per project, run like a program.

02how it works
Dave Mercuri adjusting a monitor on a darkened stageon set · video village

How it works

Built per project.

Mercurian Studios isn't a building with a standing payroll. It's a production outfit that assembles the right crew for the job and then runs that crew against a plan — which, for most of the work I take, is exactly the right shape.

What's constant is the discipline: a single build plan, a schedule with margin in it, a budget that's tracked rather than hoped at, and a debrief at the end so the next one costs less. What changes is everyone else, and that's a feature. A comedy web short and a chamber-music capture in Florida do not want the same crew.

Based
Denver, Colorado
Works
Nationally
Structure
Project-assembled crew, producer-led
Formats
Narrative shorts · commercial & brand · live capture · web series
Languages
English / French
03on set

On set

The room where
it goes wrong.

Every frame below is a moment where something was being solved. That's most of what a set is. The plan is what buys you the room to solve it without losing the day.

Camera operator and boom operator setting up on a residential street
Director at video village reviewing the shot list with headphones on
Night exterior fire pit scene with two actors and a crew member at the monitor

On set · The New Neighbors · Denver

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