ScopeMedia StudiosBook

Hire · SE5 9HW, South London · from £40 · open 7 days

Stills and motion, one set-up.

The hybrid content day is now the normal day: the campaign stills, the fifteen-second cut and the vertical hook all taken from the same set-up before anyone touches a light. Both coves do it — Studio A at scale on seamless white, Studio B in colour with clean sound — and the podcast room records the audio piece in the same building. A buyout puts a brand sprint under one roof with nobody else in the building.

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Studio A seen head-on: a white infinity cove framed between black blackout curtains, grey studio floor

The rooms for it

Studio A during a live shoot, seen wide across the white infinity cove with softboxes either side
Studio A1,200 sq ft of white drive-in infinity cove with full blackout curtains: the stills and the motion share one seamless white, at a scale that takes a car or a set build, with load-in at ground level through the roller door.From £160Check Studio A availability
Studio B dressed with a pink sofa on the white cyclorama under a fresnel light
Studio BA colour-washable cyclorama with an adjustable backdrop system in a sound-treated, blackout-capable room within a room. Shoot the stills, roll the motion with sound, then review both in the dedicated edit and playback area before the next look.From £120Check Studio B availability
The podcast room: four microphone booms around bouclé seating, under an arc lamp
Podcast RoomAcoustically treated and camera-ready, with professional microphones and audio interfaces in the room, at a flat £40 an hour — the audio or sit-down piece that rounds out a content day without buying a half day.From £40Check Podcast Room availability

In the building with every booking

  • Kitchen
  • Dressing and prep room
  • Client lounge
  • High-speed Wi-Fi
  • Parking

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.

Anything not listed — ceiling heights, cove dimensions, power, capacities — is on request rather than guessed at. Ask us and you will get an exact answer.

How it works

  1. 01Write the shot list by set-up, not by formatGroup everything that shares a background and a light, then take the stills, the 16:9 and the 9:16 from each before anything moves. That is the whole economy of a hybrid day.
  2. 02Book the rooms, or the buildingStudio 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 podcast room is a flat £40 an hour. A whole-building buyout is £1,500 a day for a brand sprint — Studio A, Studio B, the podcast room, the music studio, the workshop, the kitchen, the dressing room and the parking, with nobody else on site. The DJ room sits outside it.
  3. 03Quote the lights once for bothLights are charged separately from the room rate in these rooms — please enquire about our lights and tell us you are shooting stills and motion from the same rig, so the quote covers both.
  4. 04Review before you strikeStudio B's edit and playback area is there to check the frames and the cut against each other while the set is still standing; the workshop's ten iMacs take the edit when it needs seats.

Straight answers

What does photo & video studio hire london cost at Scope?
Studio A starts at £160. Studio B starts at £120. Podcast Room starts at £40. Set-up and pack-down are inside your booked time.
Can we shoot photos and video in the same studio on the same day?
Yes, and from the same set-up. Both coves black out, so the light you built for the stills is the light the motion is shot in; Studio B adds sound treatment for anything spoken, and Studio A adds 1,200 sq ft and a drive-in cove for scale.
Which cove suits a hybrid photo and video shoot?
Studio A for seamless white at scale, vehicles and set builds. Studio B for colour, several looks in a day, and any piece with dialogue in it. They are in one building, so a day can use both.
Can we review the stills and the footage on set?
Yes. Studio B has a dedicated edit and playback area, there is high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the building, and the workshop room's ten iMac workstations take an edit day of their own at £120 for a half day.
Can a brand take the whole building for a content sprint?
Yes. A whole-building buyout is £1,500 a day: Studio A, Studio B, the podcast room, the music studio, the workshop, the kitchen, the dressing room and the parking, with nobody else on site. The DJ room is the one room outside a buyout and is booked separately at £75 an hour with a four-hour minimum.
Is it cheaper to book one hybrid day than a photo day and a video day?
Usually, because the rooms sell by the block and the set-up is built once. A full day in Studio B is £420 and in Studio A £620, against two half days at £220 or £320 each — the saving is modest on the room and large on the crew and the rig. Lights are charged separately — please enquire about our lights.

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