When to Book the Whole Building: A Buyout Guide

Most bookings need one room. A buyout is for the days that do not, and it is easy to file it as a luxury upgrade right up until the brief arrives that cannot be shot any other way.

What a buyout actually is

The building for the day, with nobody else in it: Studio A, Studio B, the podcast room, the music studio, the workshop, the kitchen, the dressing room and the parking. It starts from £1,500 a day. The DJ room is the one room that sits outside a buyout — it is booked separately, and we will hold it alongside if you ask.

A buyout is not a discount bundle of the rooms you would have booked anyway. It is a different kind of day: nothing waits on a room to free up, and nobody outside your production walks past your set.

The maths, done honestly

Add up a full day in each of the five buyout rooms at the published rates: Studio A at £620, Studio B at £420, the podcast room at £320, the music studio at £150 dry, the workshop at £240. That is £1,750 for five bookings that still would not keep a stranger out of the corridor. At its £1,500 starting price the buyout already undercuts the total, and it is the only way to buy the part no per-room rate sells: exclusivity. The per-hour arithmetic for each room is in what studio hire costs in London.

Room by room, a full day everywhere costs £1,750 and the building still is not yours. The buyout starts at £1,500 and it is.

Who actually needs it

• Multi-set campaign days: a car in Studio A, a colour set in Studio B and a product table in the workshop, with nothing struck between setups.
• Productions that need total privacy: an unannounced release, a product that has not launched, or a client who does not want another crew down the corridor.
• Talent with security requirements. A closed set is a practical need for some bookings, and a shared building cannot promise one.
• Brand content sprints built to leave with a season of material across stills, video and audio in one day.
• Festival and label days: multiple acts, multiple sessions, and acts waiting in a dressing room and a client lounge instead of a corridor.

What changes on the day

Kit stays built between setups instead of being struck for the next booking behind you. Talent moves between set, prep room and lounge without crossing anyone else's shoot. A production office runs in the workshop while the floor shoots in Studio A. And nobody is watching the clock against someone else's call time, because the schedule is yours alone.

How to book one

Enquire for a buyout date. The whole building has to actually be free on the day, so tell us the date and what you are bringing, and you will get a straight answer on whether it can be yours.