About · Dana Holloway & the Studio

The Beacon Media Co. studio, cameras and gear in low light

The story

Footage that finally felt like the night.

Beacon Media Co. started in 2014 when Dana Holloway — a documentary editor who'd grown tired of footage that never quite captured the feeling of the night — started shooting Maine weddings on weekends. The films looked different: cinematic, patient, scored like a short documentary instead of a slideshow.

Word traveled. Couples told planners, planners told venues, and the weekend habit became a studio. Twelve years and six hundred events later, Beacon is a full production house on Commercial Street — but Dana still grades every film that goes out the door.

The throughline hasn't changed: shoot it like a film, deliver it like professionals, and make something the client will still want to watch in ten years.

Inside Beacon

The crew, the gear, the room.

A small, senior team that's worked together long enough to read each other across a loud, dark room.

The crew

A core team of cinematographers, a dedicated event photographer, a live-switch operator, and editors — most of whom have worked together for years. On bigger jobs we scale up with trusted shooters who know our look, so the footage always cuts together cleanly.

The gear

6K cinema cameras and fast cine primes, gimbals and sliders, a Part 107 drone, a multicam switching kit, wireless and lavalier audio, and broadcast-grade lighting. Everything is maintained, backed up, and packed with redundancy so a single failure never costs you the moment.

The room

A studio and screening room at 55 Commercial St where we grade footage, review cuts with clients on a calibrated screen, and shoot interviews and product pieces against a controlled backdrop. It's part edit suite, part screening room, part shoot stage.

The roots

We're a Portland studio that knows the venues, the light, and the weather. From a Cape Elizabeth bluff at golden hour to a packed downtown theater, we've shot here long enough to know exactly where to stand before the moment happens.