How one local production company boasts the same skills— and the same tools—as the best Hollywood studios By Jim Fischer Photos by Sarah Pfeifer
n 2001, Scott Handel bought a camera. In 2021, he bought a virtual production wall, one of approximately 100 in the entire world. So it’s safe to say the local video production pro has expanded his capabilities in the past 20 years. Out of an unassuming former Wonder Bread store just southwest of downtown Gahanna, Handel runs Ohio HD, a production house,
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studio and massive equipment rental operation that makes high-end video content for corporate clients, the medical community, television, visual and performing artists and more. On the day Handel showed me around the space, his team was working on a commercial for Donato’s, specifically a new menu item which may or may not yet be available at the time this story is published. →