Isn't this every producers dream? No more studio costs, no more waiting for time in an edit suite, and being your own boss in your own studio!!
Anatomy of a TV Studio
All studios have one thing in common, they all produce videos/films. You can divide the studio up into the 3 main areas of film-making.
Pre-Production
You have to have offices to meet clients and discuss the projects. Offices for researchers to research, writers to write and producers to sit back and drink lots of coffee!
Production
For your indoor scenes you need a place to film. A nice large studio to hang lights on, plug cameras and mics in and a control room to oversee everything.
Post Production
Once everything is 'in the can' you need a place to watch the rushes and of course an edit suite to piece it all together. A sound studio for audio dubbing work and a tape vault for looking after your miles of tapes would be good also.
But if you are working on a shoestring budget, how can you create all of this? Well, first of all discard areas you do not need and merge areas together. For example, the studio control room could also house your edit suite (not as daft as it sounds-I watched a crew in the gallery at Sky TV editing on the VTRs in the control room becouse all the edit suites were in use), and how large a studio do you need anyway?