The director is at the heart of every production, working to ensure that everyone and everything involved in a project come together under the single vision they provide. Over the years we have found this requires equal measures of raw creativity, translation and coffee!

Translation? Well... communication on any production is executed by a complex shorthand between different disciplines and groups - from marketing gurus to darling actors to the camera crew - so making sure that everyone works with the same understanding is crucial. We achieve this by involving Chris Layhe in all of our productions. His rise as a director was achieved the old fashioned way, by developing skills as a DP, cinematographer, editor, animator, scriptwriter and even an agency creative... so he not only heavily influences the international feel of our programs, he speaks all the languages too - streamlining the principal creative roles by working as both director and editor.


Chris Layhe Associates, Inc. is a video production company that has been producing award winning video programs for business and broadcast for over twenty five years. We are an independent company dedicated to producing high quality and cost effective marketing, advertising, communications, education, PR and broadcast documentary programs.

Santa Cruz, on the San Francisco Bay, California is our home, but our project work has taken us around the world to get the right footage, and so as well as our San Francisco base we have a presence in Tampa Bay and London to facilitate this.

Our services include video production including project management, concept and script writing, directing, design, single and multi-camera video shooting HDCam on Sony HDW-F900 and Sony HDW-700A Cameras, DVCPro50 on Panasonic AJ-SDX900 and HDV on Sony HVR1U videography, sound, lighting and gaffer services, 2D and 3D animation and digital compositing, video editing and post-production Final Cut Pro HD and Avid digital video editing on HDCam, DVCProHD, DVCPro50, Betacam SP, graphics creation and sound design and audio production, and DVD authoring Scenarist interactive DVD or CD-ROM production, encoding and video compression for DVD, CD, or Web.

Chris Layhe Associates Inc. : award winning corporate and broadcast video production. San Francisco. Tampa Bay. London...
design. write. shoot. animate. edit. author. direct. produce