BBC Elstree Centre - Stages

From BBC Studios and Post Production website

• Elstree A (Eastenders)
  • Area 5540sq ft / 515sqm
  • Monopole lighting rig
  • Costume and wardrobe areas.
  • Fully digital widescreen vision system
• Elstree B (Eastenders)
  • Area 5540sq ft / 515sq m
  • Monopole lighting rig
  • Costume and wardrobe areas
  • Fully digital widescreen vision system
• Elstree C (Eastenders)
  • Area 6510sq ft / 605sq m
  • Monopole lighting rig
  • Costume and wardrobe areas
  • Fully digital widescreen vision system
• Elstree SG 1 (purpose built for Eastenders)
  • Area 9460sq ft / 879sq m
  • Trussing lighting rig
  • Costume and wardrobe areas.
  • Fully digital widescreen vision system
• Elstree D
  • Area 9000sq ft / 836 sq m wall-to-wall studio space
  • Additional built-in audience seating area (over 300 audience)
  • Fully managed and integrated tapeless studio and post production packages available
  • Excellent connectivity so can easily broadcast live onto any network
  • Production Office (450 sq ft)
  • Sound Suite
  • Lighting galleries
  • Costume and wardrobe areas
  • 11 Dressing Rooms (more available on request)
  • Saturated monopole lighting rig (height 10m) including all resident lamps and distribution
  • Fully digital widescreen vision system
  • Grid (saturated by targets) to enable Virtual Reality production
  • Cyclorama cloth through to allow hidden lighting of the cyc from below, thus an invisible join with the studio floor
  • Three Cyc tracks running 360 degrees with a drop track gap
  • 40ft sq of chroma green Cyc
  • Four cameras (in heavy or lightweight mode) as standard, ten cameras capable as extra
  • FreeSpeak digital radio talkback system (20 users)
  • Booms and radio mics
  • Four VTs
• Elstree E
  • Area 900sq ft / 84 sq m
  • Scaffold lighting grid
  • Can be used as additional studio space with Studio D

Buildings

• Fairbanks Building - occupied in the 1930s by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Neptune House - appears in the BBC drama Holby City as the hospital and in the title sequence of the 1970 series UFO.

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