How big is your studio?

Filming has come a long way in the last few years. Back then, it was deemed to get a decent picture, you needed to hire out some grand palace of a studio, costing hundreds per day/hour/minute! But, things have changed.

During the last year, I’ve hired a studio twice. Every other shoot has been on location in a client’s office, warehouse or broom cupboard (literally!). With the mobility of technology, backdrops and other brilliant inventions, we travel up and down the country every week with our mobile studio.

Having the use of a studio, is no doubt, brilliant. There are positives and negatives with everything, and I think the biggest challenge I’ve found filming in studios, is the natural reverb you get, usually because of high ceilings and open spaces. This obviously causes hurdles to jump over if filming interviews/talking heads etc. The best factor is the space there usually is, the flexibility in terms of lighting and not being restricted.

The beauty of being mobile like us, is you can be setup in a relatively small space, within 30 minutes, ready to film. The results are just as good as filming in a larger studio, its uncanny.

Filming at you’re own premises will save you costs and time; two factors that you should consider next time you commission that corporate video.

Here’s a video we shot in a dining room. Note, the video is heavily compressed, so quality has been reduced.