Studio, Soundstage or Shooting on Location?

It’s quite tough choosing a location for a video interview or livestream company meeting, but there are a few good ways to determine if it’s time to get out of the conference room and into a studio or sound stage. Our clients often book a conference room for a video shoot or utilize their own office, since it’s convenient to reserve a space. While it’s nice to already have a spot, most conference rooms make terrible studios. No amount of a backdrops, lights, or blacking out the windows and doors can make a conference room into a great sound stage or studio space.

We recommend looking around the office for a quiet, nearby, yet out of the way location to shoot the video, possibly with a pretty backdrop. Your company spends a great deal on rent for an office with a view, why not utilize it?

In reality, many office spaces are noisey, tight spaces and lack the proper lighting available to get that perfect picture you brought the production team in to get. And let’s all be honest, having a video production crew come through your office in the middle of the work day isn’t entirely practical for company productivity.

Perhaps it’s time for a sound stage or production studio?

Company Interviews in a Controlled Environment

Imagine a high-level executive on camera with a sensitive message, in this case the studio is for you. Access to a studio can be controlled, and we can limit exposure to the executive who might feel sensitive if he or she flubs lines or if confidentiality is a must. We recommend a studio setting for people who are being interviewed for the first time since you can spend more time putting them at ease.

A recurring theme to these thoughts is control. The studio space allows for more control over all the audio and visual elements for the captured content. Unlike an office space or conference center, sound stages and studios like those Repertoire operates, is that they don’t have conflicting exterior light and sound elements.

No need to worry about changing daylight, turning off office lights or refrigerators and AC muddling up your audio records. A sound stage protects you from outside A/V elements.

Time & Budget for Your Live Stream

Production and crew cost money, if there is a way to reduce labor hours and gear rental days, it makes sense to do so. A studio space might just be the way to go about this. With gear already in place and crew already familiar, a company live stream, that in office required a day of setup prior to show, now occurs on one day thus reducing labor and equipment costs for you.

Some of this cost may be offset by studio rental costs, but the addition of not having office space disrupted multiple times a quarter just might make it all worth it. Simpler logistics means less headaches, plus saves time and money in the scheduling process.

Live Stream & Set Creativity

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What are we looking for in overall style and vision for your interview or live stream event? What is envisioned for your production strongly motivated by the location you’re shooting in. Office spaces can tend to be a bit dry and lack design flexibility. The difference between a CEO’s message coming off warm vs authoritarian can be the difference in backdrop.

Studio spaces and sound stages have the benefit of being incredibly flexible when it comes to design. In many cases, starting off as a white cyc, shorthand for cyclorama. This space is essentially a blank canvas that has the capability to be a clean borderless white backdrop or built out into a living room or office study.

There are obvious costs that come into building out a faux living room, but the flexibility and customization is often worth it.

Studios & Sound Stages in Summary

Studios and Sound Stages have plenty of benefits; cost, audio and video control, time, energy, headaches security and more. There are hundreds of scenarios where a studio space can be beneficial to you and your company, more than we can list here. Reach out to Repertoire Productions, we’ve worked in hundreds of studio spaces across the nation and are always happy to give advice and insight, whether in our studio or another.