Silvertown Studios has announced the opening of its new Royal Docks 6,000 sq. ft studio location.
Silvertown Studios was born out of the pandemic, when its team’s other enterprise, London Audio Visual – which supplies LED Wall & AV solutions for rental and installations for corporate and brand activation events and companies – was put on pause, as the event industry was one of the first industries to close and last industries to reopen. During discussions about ensuring their continued survival, one of the team mentioned how The Mandalorian was filmed using virtual production – and so Silvertown Studios came to be.
The three company directors converted one of the business’s railway arches in Elephant and Castle into a film studio, ready to use as a dry hire space and as a technology-backed virtual production studio. The team has since completed many traditional and virtual productions and livestreams from this site, but upon reaching the other side of the pandemic, a rebrand and larger studio space was required.
The newest and larger studio, Royal Docks, is a sound-treated and blackout 6,000 sq. ft space. The venue is multi-use, suitable for TV and film productions, live streaming, virtual productions and rehearsals. The studio is available for dry hire or with specialist LED volume and a dedicated team for virtual production or full production services. The studio is equipped with a media control room, breakout room, changing rooms/make-up rooms and canteen area. The 3mx4m entrance allows a truck delivering any production materials sufficient access to the studio, also makes it a versatile space to shoot with one or multiple vehicles in the studio. This offering is aimed at clients with medium to large productions and those looking to enter into the world of virtual production.
Silvertown Studios’ Elephant & Castle location is a 1,400 sq. ft studio space, with modular configuration allowing their clients to choose where they would like to position their breakout room, make-up and changing facilities and control desk based on the individual shooting requirements. With a kitchenette and plenty of local eateries, this studio offers a versatile space suitable for car shoots, music videos, photoshoots to name a few as a blackout, sound treated space with lighting grid in place.
Both studios locations are well designed to serve productions needing a blackout studios, sound stage, live streaming, virtual production stage and hybrid events with the Royal Docks (E16) studio suitable for rehearsals too.
“Being from an event and technology background, we understand what is required to bring our clients’ vision to life,” said the brand’s spokesperson. “Silvertown Studios offer high quality spaces to be used as is or together with our high-quality LED technology and production team. We produce exceptional quality virtual productions and are also extremely proud to state that Silvertown Studios is carbon neutral. This is an important factor to us and we continue to work on ensuring that sustainability is always at the top of our agenda.”
