Chocolate Studios
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About Chocolate Studios
Chocolate Studios is an Australian creative advertising agency and production studio combining brand strategy, creative development and commercial production. Based in Melbourne with a Brisbane presence, it works across film, television, photography, audio, design and digital communications for commercial brands, industrial businesses and public-sector organisations.
Its work connects campaign ideas with the practical disciplines needed to produce and deliver them. Strategy and account management sit alongside filmmakers, designers, editors, animators and audio specialists, supporting projects from initial concept through finished campaign assets. This integrated approach spans brand identity, television commercials, social content, outdoor advertising and digital experiences.
Creative and production capabilities
The studio develops both moving-image and still-image campaigns. Its production resources include film stages, photography cycloramas, editing and grading suites, and audio recording and mixing facilities. These support commercial shoots, product storytelling, voice recording, sound design and post-production. Motion graphics, animation and visual effects extend its capabilities beyond live-action production, while graphic and digital design connect campaign content with wider brand communications. Studio and audio suite hire are also offered.
Its client work covers retail and hardware, appliances and residential living, food and beverage, travel, automotive products and manufacturing. Government, emergency services and workplace safety communications form another part of its portfolio. Assignments range from brand films and product campaigns to integrated advertising, visual identities and launch creative, combining storytelling with design and technical production.
Company development
The company’s history includes incorporation in 1992 and subsequent corporate name changes before adoption of its current legal name in 2010. Across that period, the business developed from a broadcast facility into an agency with creative and production disciplines working together. It describes an operating history of more than 30 years. Today, its offering brings advertising development, content creation and post-production into a single business serving clients across Australasia.
More about Chocolate Studios
Leadership and musical background
Founder and Managing Director Dave Ellis is a commercial filmmaker, brand strategist and composer. The research connects his musical background with the studio’s practice of conceiving and recording original commercial scores, jingles and sonic identities in-house.
Operating approach
The company describes an end-to-end model intended to eliminate third-party outsourcing, keeping responsibility for creative ideas and their execution within the same team. Its stated philosophy is “Where Ideas survive production.”
Long-term collaboration
The report describes the Bunnings Warehouse relationship as spanning multiple decades of brand storytelling and community campaigns.
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Where Chocolate Studios is based
- 236–240 York Street, South Melbourne, VIC 3205, AustraliaSouth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
South Melbourne office
HeadquartersOverall headquarters and production facility with film stages, photography cycloramas, audio recording facilities and editing suites.
- Suite 22, Level 22, 307 Queen Street, Brisbane City, QLD 4000, AustraliaBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane office
Regional creative and client management branch serving Queensland corporate and agency clients.
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne office
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