The company
About SkipShot Studio
More than twenty years behind the camera in Atlanta. One van, one standard, and client relationships that outlast most marriages.
David's story
David Robertson started the way most DPs do: carrying cases, watching how the good crews ran a set, and noticing that the difference between a smooth 6am call and a chaotic one was never the camera. It was the checklist. The gear that was tested the night before. The producer who got a call sheet that actually answered their questions.
He built the company around that: a 1-ton van carrying a full cinema camera, grip, lighting, and sound package, prepped the same way for every job, 60 to 80 shoot days a year. Producers hired him once for the footage and kept hiring him for the certainty. The result is the number we lead with everywhere: our average client relationship is over ten years old.
Along the way the van has worked sets for networks, brands, and story-driven shops (including Epic and Great Big Story), and the same rule held on all of them: be the crew nobody has to worry about.
About the name
For twenty-plus years this company was Robertson Production. In 2026 it became SkipShot Studio. Same van, same crew, same guy reviewing every hero cut; the new name is for what comes next. A company named after one man's calendar can only grow as far as that calendar, and we built this one to outlast it. The Robertson Standard keeps David's name because the method is his. SkipShot Studio is the company that runs it.
The Robertson Standard
For more than twenty years, clients hired the way David runs a set. Now it's written down.
The Robertson Standard is the documented method behind every SkipShot Studio day:
The same gear spec
Every package is built from the same spec sheet (camera, grip, lighting, sound), prepped and tested before load-in, every time.
The same checklists
Pre-shoot, on-set, and wrap checklists that don't live in anyone's head. The 200 things that go wrong before lunch get handled because they're on a list, not because someone remembered.
The same delivery standard
Footage organized, labeled, and handed off the same way on every job, whether it's going to your editor or ours.
It applies whether David is holding the camera or directing from the monitor. That's the point of writing a method down: the standard is the product. David reviews every hero deliverable that leaves the building.
Why it matters to you
A method you can read is a promise you can check. When you book SkipShot Studio (a day-hire, an Engine month, a white-label job), you're booking the Standard, with David's name on it.