At many facilities, when renting a soundstage you will be asked to pay an hourly rate, and then handed a menu of "a la carte items" you will need for your production or event. Options may include a studio manager, lights, sound, equipment, tripods, monitors, teleprompters, expendables, electricity and wifi. In the end, after choosing all the options, it may cost anywhere up to $3,000 per day to use that soundstage.

We like to make things easy for our clients. Our pricing is a flat rate, either half day or full day rates. Our Sound Stage 1 at Sun Studios of Arizona is 2,500 square feet of acoustically treated space, with baffled climate control, two 200-amp 3 phase power stations, a 16' light grid and most of the equipment you need included inside job part 2 in a flat rate. It's a good size space including many things for which other studios charge extra, including a stage manager to help you with every facet of your project.

Green screens are a staple of the digital media industry and are in great demand. They enable the production to record in a stable environment, then add a separately filmed background with ease in post production - basically, pulling your subject out of the real world, and placing them over a digital backdrop. Music videos and video blog (vlog) channels particularly utilize green screens for many of their projects.

Sound stages with green screens can be costly, over and above a regular soundstage, because instead of plain walls, the green screen requires a variety of special lighting to enhance the luminance. Pricing at many studios, again, is piecemeal, with an hourly rate followed by options, including that special lighting (skylights, filters, effects boards and much more), which will add additional costs and may bring your green screen projected total rental up to $3,000 or more for a day of shooting.