ScopeMedia StudiosBook

Film and video production · SE5 9HW, South London · open 7 days

A small stage,
the whole building.

Scope is not a sound stage, and this page will not pretend otherwise. It is a 4,000 sq ft production building in Camberwell with a 1,200 sq ft drive-in cove room that blacks out, a sound-treated room for dialogue, a vocal booth for the voiceover and a twenty-seat room for the production office — and one production can take all of it for the day.

What it is for

Commercials of the size most brands actually make: a product, a presenter, a pack shot and a handful of set-ups in a day. Interviews and talking heads where the sound has to be usable the first time. Short-film interiors that were never going to exist on location. Music videos, fashion film, corporate video, green screen, set builds. Studio A gives those jobs scale, seamless white and darkness on demand; Studio B gives them a quiet room and a cove that takes colour.

What it is not: a large-format stage with a lighting grid, a build that needs a scissor-lift, or a production that needs more than one big room at once. If the treatment needs those, we will say so before you book — a wasted recce helps nobody. The guide to sound stages is the honest version of that conversation.

In every room but one, lights are charged separately from the room rate, so please enquire about our lights and we will quote for what your shoot needs. The exception is the DJ room, where the professional film lighting is rigged in the room and included in the rate.

Which room does which part

The jobThe roomWhy
Set builds, vehicles, seamless whiteStudio A1,200 sq ft, white drive-in infinity cove, full blackout curtains, ground-level load-in.
Dialogue, interviews, sync soundStudio BRoom-within-a-room, sound treated; blackout capable; colour-washable cyclorama; edit and playback area.
Voiceover, ADR, scoreMusic StudioTreated vocal booth, large-diaphragm condenser, nearfield studio monitors. Dry hire or with an engineer.
Seated conversation on cameraPodcast RoomAcoustically treated, camera-ready, professional microphones and audio interfaces. Flat £40 an hour.
Production office, casting, editWorkshopUp to 20 participants, 10 imacs. Half day £120.
Filmed DJ setsDJ RoomHand-built concrete booth, club-standard kit and film lighting included. £75 an hour, 4-hour minimum (£300). Outside a buyout.
A closed setWhole BuildingFive rooms, the kitchen, the dressing room and the parking. Nobody else in the building. from £1,500 per day.

Every number is on the rate card. Ceiling heights, cove dimensions, power and capacities are on request — ask and you will get the exact figure, never a guess.

Hire by the job

The studios

A full lighting crew working in Studio A with five softboxes, an overhead silk and a DIT table
Behind the scenes in Studio A: a presenter on a blue floor mat lit by an LED panel and a poly bounce
A gimbal operator filming a subject against a painted blue flat in Studio A
Studio B dressed for a shoot: a pink two-seater sofa on the cyclorama under a peach light wash
Studio B under neutral white light showing the curved cove and the wall-mounted backdrop roll bar
Studio A seen head-on: a white infinity cove framed between black blackout curtains, grey studio floor
The doorway into Studio A, light spilling across the threshold
A walk through the building

How a production day runs here

  1. 01Send the treatment, the boards or the scriptIt tells us whether one room does it, whether you want two, or whether you should take the building — and whether we are the wrong size for it, which we will say.
  2. 02Book the blockStudio A and Studio B sell in 2 hour, half day and full day blocks, from £120. The podcast room is a flat £40 an hour, the music studio from £80, the workshop from £120. Set-up and pack-down sit inside the booked time.
  3. 03Quote the lights and the kitLights are charged separately in every room but the DJ room — please enquire about our lights. Tell us what you are bringing and what you want supplied and we will confirm it in writing, because no kit list is published.
  4. 04Load in from the yardParking is on site, load-in to Studio A is at ground level through the roller door, and the kitchen, dressing room and client lounge are in the building.
  5. 05Review on site, finish in the boothStudio B's edit and playback area for the take, the workshop's ten iMacs for the selects, and the music studio's vocal booth for the voiceover or the ADR — the same day or after the edit.

Film and video guides

Written for the producer doing the planning, from the glossary up. Where a guide names a room, a price or a policy, it is the one on the rate card.

Delivering a Short Film to Festivals: A Technical ChecklistWhat a festival's programmers and projectionists need once your short film is selected: masters, frame rate, audio, subtitles, textless, slate and DCP.Film Production Glossary: Studio Hire Terms ExplainedNinety-five film production terms — cove, blackout, key light, log, sync sound, ADR, buyout — defined plainly, with what each means for a shoot at Scope.Studio Hire for a TV Commercial: A Producer's ChecklistA producer's checklist for booking a studio for a TV advert: set-ups versus block length, the pack shot, dialogue, the client, VO, load-in and lights.How to Budget a Studio Shoot in LondonHow to budget a studio shoot in London: the room, lights, crew, kit, talent, art department, insurance and post, with worked examples from published rates.Filming a Corporate Video in a Studio: Interviews, Training and Internal CommsFilming a corporate video in a studio: leadership messages, expert interviews, training modules and internal comms, with a quiet room and sign-off on set.Documentary Interviews in a Studio: When to Leave the Location BehindDocumentary interviews in a studio: matching contributors shot weeks apart, eyeline, backdrops, sound in a room within a room, B-roll and releases.Multi-camera Interview Set-ups in a StudioMulti-camera interview set-ups in a studio: one, two or three cameras, matching lenses, the 180-degree line, lighting two angles, lav and boom, timecode.Sound for Video in a Studio: Sync, Wild Tracks and ADRSound for video in a studio: sync sound in a treated room, planning dialogue around an untreated one, wild tracks, room tone, ADR and voiceover in the booth.Green Screen or White Cove: Which Should You Book?Green screen or white cove: when seamless white does the job natively, when a key is worth the post cost, and how to run both set-ups in one blackout room.What Is a Sound Stage, and When Don't You Need One?What a sound stage is, what it costs a production in scale, the short list of jobs that need one and the long list that do not, and what a small stage offers.Set Building in a Hire Studio: Flats, Props and the StrikeSet building in a hire studio: the footprint against the cove, flats, pre-building off site, the build and strike inside the booked time, protecting the cove.How to Film a DJ Set in a StudioHow to film a DJ set in a studio: cameras placed around a booth that does not move, audio taken clean off the mixer, and light that still reads an hour in.How to Film an Interview in a Studio: Sound First, Then Everything ElseHow to film an interview in a studio: sound first, then soft light that holds all day, a second camera on the right side of the line and a schedule that fits.How to Light a Green Screen in a Studio: Getting a Clean KeyHow to light a green screen in a studio for a clean key: one even value on the screen, distance to kill spill, a room that blacks out and a key checked on set.Casting Calls and Edit Days: Using the WorkshopTwenty seats, ten iMacs and a door that closes: how the workshop room runs a casting call, an edit day or a production office — £120 a half day.Building a Set for a Photo or Film ShootHow to build a set for a photo or film shoot in a hire studio: build only what the lens sees, brace every flat, and plan the strike before the build.Shooting a Short Film or Commercial in a StudioShooting a short film or commercial in a studio: what blackout, a sound-treated room and set-build floor fix that location cannot, and how to schedule the day.How to Shoot a Music Video in a StudioHow to shoot a music video in a studio: pick the room by the treatment, light the artist out of black, run playback properly and book the hours the looks need.

Before you book

Is Scope a film studio?
Yes, a small one. Studio A is a 1,200 sq ft room with a white drive-in infinity cove and full blackout curtains; Studio B is a sound-treated room within a room with a colour-washable cove and an edit and playback area; the music studio has a treated vocal booth; the workshop room runs as a production office and edit suite. It is not a sound stage and has no lighting grid.
What does a film day at Scope cost?
Studio A is £160 for two hours, £320 for a half day and £620 for a full day. Studio B is £120, £220 and £420. The whole building is from £1,500 per day, excluding the DJ room. Set-up and pack-down are inside the booked time, and lights are charged separately — please enquire about our lights.
Which room records sound?
Studio B, built as a room within a room and sound treated, is where dialogue and interviews are recorded as sync. Studio A is not sound treated — it is the room for scale, blackout and the drive-in cove. ADR, voiceover and wild lines go into the music studio's treated vocal booth, dry or with an engineer.
How does a crew load in?
Parking is on site in the yard in front of the unit and load-in to Studio A is at ground level through the roller door from the yard. Door dimensions, ceiling heights, cove dimensions and power are on request rather than published, so send the biggest piece and the rig and you will get exact figures before you book.
Can a production take the whole building?
Yes. A whole-building buyout is from £1,500 per day and covers Studio A, Studio B, Podcast room, Music studio, Workshop room, with the kitchen, the dressing room and the parking, and nobody else on site. The DJ room sits outside it and is booked separately.
Do you supply cameras, lights or crew?
The booking is the room. Lights are charged separately in every room but the DJ room, where the film lighting is rigged and included — please enquire about our lights and we will quote. We have not published an in-house kit list, so tell us what you are bringing and what you want supplied and we will confirm it in writing.

More in the full FAQ, and every room in detail on the spaces page.

Send the treatment.

We will tell you which room, what it costs and — if it is the honest answer — that we are not the right studio for it.

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