Bravo Studios

I love Bravo Studios. In my experience it’s the best green screen studio in Manhattan for productions with a limited budget. I’ve recommended them to a few production companies I work with and everyone has been really happy with their experience. It’s not a place to go if you’re looking for a lot of fancy decorum of some of the big name studios — and the stages aren’t huge so don’t expect to be able to do group shots or have lost of movement. But for shots with two or three people you can still have full head-​to-​toe compositions on a 50 mm lens and not have to hug the back wall. And while their lighting gear isn’t shiny and new it’s pretty extensive and I’ve not ever needed to bring in 3^rd party equipment to properly light a scene.
So, if you’re in need of a quality studio for your video shoot and can’t afford the big studios I don’t know of a better place than Bravo.

We have worked with Bravo many times over the past 6+ years and have always felt that their customer service was a bit lacking. Their original main space (on W 27^th), however, is one of the stronger options in Manhattan and the convenience tends to outweigh the lack of professionalism of the studio staff.
On this particular occasion, however, Tim at Bravo decided he was going to pull the old «bait n’ switch» telling us the studio that we had on hold (W. 28^th) was available to scout. Once we arrived, not only was there a production in the studio which prevented us from being about to look at it, he informed us that he had given the studio away even though we had the studio on first hold. Booking etiquette requires that if another party wants to book the studio they have to «challenge». Tim never informed us of a challenge he just gave the studio away and tried to get us to book his W 27^th studio (which we internally had already determined didn’t work for our shooting purposes.)
Obviously this impacts a production negatively. We had brought our team and DP to the studio for the scout so this cost the production money. It’s a deceptive practice and should be heavily discouraged.
Again the W 27^th space is solid and convenient but the studio and booking staff at Bravo are traditionally unprofessional and even, in this case, under-​handed.
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I met David from Bravo Studios who gave me a quick tour of the new space. It looks amazing and David Title also really knows his stuff. I’m not in the video world but I’d highly recommend working with him and the Studio. They do small pieces for web home pages, which by the way is a great way to drive traffic to your site, to renting a studio space for a crew to come into to use.