YOUR SPACE
Moving Forwards In a Country Retreat...
Fox hunting may have been outlawed but you still can’t beat
a shoot in the country, according to studio owner Paul Dixon.
Paul spent months on the scent of sound stage. Now we have two
a spacious rural photo-studio drive-in studios for hire, both with
environment and gave up the coves and overhead lighting rigs.”
chase when he tracked down Kent He added: “Courtyard Studios was
Downs-based Courtyard Studios - developed primarily out of our own
now one of the region’s leading hire production needs for stills and
studio facilities for stills, video and video, but an ever increasing
TV. number of people asked us if they
could hire our facilities. Today our
Nestling in the grounds of a main focus is on offering facilities
Georgian country house just off the and services to photographers and
M20 near Maidstone, in a TV/video production companies.”
designated area of natural beauty,
the 5,500 sq ft premises is also “As the photography and video
home to Apache Lighting – which production industries have evolved
offers imagists the county’s most recently there are substantial
expansive selection of stills and financial advantages to hiring
TV/film lighting hire, including a facilities and kit, rather than being
wide range of Bowens’ flash burdened with the overheads of
equipment. ownership.
Clients are free to choose from our
Paul told Litebook: “We wanted to large selection of equipment, get
offer clients an out of town service, technical and creative support and
from a location with good counsel and enjoy first class
communication links to London, facilities as and when they are
yet in a peaceful and creative needed.”
environment. We converted what
was formerly just a building shell Paul has been using Bowens
into the main studio in 1998, and equipment for over 25 years;
we have just finished further “Primarily because of its ease of
redeveloping studio B into a small use, versatility and reliability.”
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