Video Arts Studios is a full service creative communications and production facility with offices and studios in Fargo, North Dakota offering production for advertising agencies and their clients, corporations and television networks. Video Arts Studios produces television and radio commercials, original music, corporate videos, television shows, websites, and events, for a regional/national client based in a wide variety of industries.
Video Arts Studios offers top-to-bottom creative production. Our services begin by assisting our clients with pre-production creative conceptualizing, script writing and storyboarding. Then Video Arts Studios can provide talent casting, location scouting, and videography production. From there, Video Arts Studios offers full post-production services including video editing, sound design, original music, graphic design, and animation.
Video Arts Studios, a subsidiary of Absolute Marketing Group, is a full service advertising agency that also operates two additional production companies: Graffiti Studios, for music artist recording and mixing, and Hired Gums, a talent voice-over recording service.
Absolute Marketing Group, is a full service advertising agency that also operates three subsidiary production companies:
- Video Arts Studios, full service creative video production
- Hired Gums, talent voice-over recording service
- Graffiti Studios, music artist recording and mixing
Upper Midwest Emmy Awards
Film Festival Awards
Telly Awards
American Advertising Awards
Graffiti Music Studios, the audio production and music recording facilities at Video Arts Studios, is a tapeless, digital environment designed by world-renowned New York designer, John Storyk. All studios are equipped with digital workstations, and sport a full-compliment of microphones, keyboards and samplers. Regional and national artists as well as corporations have utilized Graffiti Studios for recording and original music production.
Hired Gums is the vocal arm of Video Arts, offering the finest voice-over talent pool in the region. There are no renewals or royalties, the session is a straight buyout for you to use in any market for as long as you like. Hired Gums engineers have been recording and producing voice over sessions for over 25 years, serving a variety of clients throughout the country including Discovery Health Channel, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Bobcat and Subway.
Marty Halgrimson
Director of Photography & Sound Designer
Marty is an award winning videographer who oversees all Video Arts Studios’ filming/shooting. He is also a sound designer and talented musician, who composes original music for Video arts Studios’ clients.
Karlee Phillips
Production Manager
Karlee is responsible for estimating project budgets. Karlee also oversees the scheduling of production and post production, ensuring that projects are completed by designated deadlines.
Jim Kirwan
Writer / Producer
Jim is an award winning writer/ producer/ director of both short form and long form video and animated productions. Jim is also a talented an accomplished animation and storyboard artist.
Scott Tostenrud
Video Editor / 3D Animator
Scott is Video Arts Studios’ primary editor who boasts years of editing experience in both traditional and special effects editing. Scott is a master of green screen composite techniques as well as an accomplished 3D animation designer.
Dustin Gire
Digital Designer / Animator
Dustin is Video Arts Studios’ primary digital artist/animator. Dustin is an experienced and incredibly versatile artist, whose extraordinary talent for drawing is complimented by a command of an impressive array of digital design and animation software programs.
John Shae
Audio Engineer & Tech Specialist
John is Video Arts Studios’ Audio Engineer responsible for capturing audio for in-studio and on-location shooting and recording sessions. John is a talented musician and sound designer. with years of experience in all aspects of audio recording and post production.
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1440 4th Ave N
Fargo, North Dakota 58102
Office: 701.232.3393