You want a number. Fair enough. At Skytheory, a space-only rental of our RiNo studio runs $525 for a half-day and $899 for a full day. A fully serviced All-In shoot runs $2,450 for a half-day and $3,450 for a full day.
But price isn't really the question. The question underneath it is simpler: do you need the room, or do you need the room and everyone who makes a shoot happen inside it? Answer that, and the cost stops being a mystery.
A studio shoot is made of two things: a space and a production. The space is fixed. The 24-by-30-foot pre-lit cyclorama, the green screen, the lighting grid, the private greenroom — that's the same whether you're a one-person crew or a full team.
The production is the variable. A director of photography, a 6K camera package, lighting design, audio, makeup, the upload of your footage before you leave — those are the line items that move the number. When someone quotes you a wildly different price than someone else, this is almost always why. You're comparing a room to a room-plus-a-crew.
If you have your own crew and gear, you just need a great room to point them at. That's space-only: $525 for five hours, $899 for ten.
You get the pre-lit cyclorama, the grid, and the greenroom, ready to work. This is the right call when you're an established production company, a photographer with a kit, or a team that already knows exactly what it's doing. You're renting certainty — a proven space that won't fight you.
Most people who need "a studio" actually need a shoot. That's what All-In is for. A half-day is $2,450; a full day is $3,450.
That price brings a DP, a 6K camera, professional lighting and audio, makeup, and your footage uploaded before you walk out — 50GB on a half-day, 100GB plus lunch on a full day. There's craft service either way. You show up with your talent and your idea; you leave with finished-quality footage and nobody to chase.
This is the priority for a reason. When you add up what it costs to assemble a crew, rent a camera, hire an operator, and coordinate it all yourself, a single, honest All-In number is usually the calmer and cheaper path — and it's the one where professionalism is guaranteed, not gambled. If broadcast-clean sound matters to your project, that's part of what you're buying — here's why studio audio is different.
A half-day is five hours; a full day is ten. Half-days suit tight, focused work: a talking-head, a product spot, a batch of social clips. If you have multiple setups, wardrobe changes, or a green-screen sequence that needs care, the full day pays for itself by removing the clock from the room.
If you're weighing green screen against the cyclorama for your look, that choice affects your day more than your budget — we break it down here.
We've run this studio in Denver's RiNo Arts District since well before it was the obvious place to shoot. Fifteen-plus years, an Emmy on the shelf, and a Top 1% standing on Peerspace — that history is baked into the rate. You're not paying for square footage. You're paying for a room that solves your equation.
The prices here are real and published — no games. But your shoot is specific, and the best way to know what it costs is to tell us what you're making. Book a shoot or get a quote at skytheory.com, and we'll give you a straight answer.
