TopGear.com Awards 2024
Multiple Cars in One Studio
For decades, Top Gear has been a major part of the UK's automotive television landscape, bringing cars, motoring and entertainment to audiences around the world.
For the 2024 Top Gear Awards, the production team needed a studio capable of accommodating a collection of vehicles together in one controlled environment. Kinetics Studios provided the scale and accessibility required, allowing the Top Gear team to bring multiple cars into the Infinity Cove and capture them as part of the awards production.
With 368 square metres of seamless shooting space and a double-height studio environment, Infinity Cove provides the scale needed for large automotive productions.
Big Studio Space for Big Productions
Automotive productions can quickly become complicated when several vehicles need to be photographed or filmed at the same time.
Studio size is an important consideration, but so is access. Kinetics Studios has direct vehicular access into Infinity Cove via a large loading bay, allowing vehicles to be driven directly into the studio rather than requiring complicated lifting or loading arrangements.
For the Top Gear Awards, this meant the production team could bring the cars into the studio efficiently and position them together within the same controlled environment.
Having enough room for multiple vehicles also gives the creative team greater freedom when considering camera positions, lighting and composition.
A Large-Scale Automotive Production Environment
Infinity Cove is one of Kinetics Studios' largest production spaces, measuring 23 metres wide, 16 metres long and more than 6 metres high, with 2,208 cubic metres of production space.
The U-shaped cove provides a seamless background without visible corners, helping keep the focus firmly on the vehicles.
For automotive productions featuring multiple cars, this creates a clean and controlled environment where vehicles can be positioned together for group shots, individual shots and wider compositions.
The space is designed around productions that require more room than a traditional photography or filming studio can provide.
Why Studio Access Matters for Automotive Productions
Getting vehicles onto a studio floor is not always straightforward. Larger cars, specialist vehicles and multiple-car productions require suitable access from the moment they arrive on site.
At Kinetics Studios, Infinity Cove has been designed with this in mind. Direct vehicle access allows cars and larger production elements to enter the studio directly, while the scale of the space provides room for positioning vehicles and working around them.
This makes the studio suitable for automotive advertising, photography, video production, television work and other productions where vehicles form a central part of the creative.
More Than Just Space for Cars
A successful automotive production needs more than a large studio floor.
Infinity Cove also provides a dedicated client lounge, production office, meeting space, refreshments and shower facilities, giving production teams areas to work, meet and take breaks throughout the day.
The production office overlooks the studio floor and provides Wi-Fi, ethernet connectivity and workspace, allowing production activity to continue alongside filming.
For larger productions, keeping these facilities within the same location can help teams work more efficiently throughout the shoot.
The Result of using Infinity Cove
The Top Gear Awards 2024 production demonstrated the importance of having a studio that can accommodate multiple vehicles while still providing the creative and technical control expected from a professional production environment.
By bringing the cars together inside Kinetics Studios' Infinity Cove, Top Gear had the space, direct vehicle access and controlled lighting environment needed to capture the vehicles as part of the awards production.
The project is a strong example of how Kinetics Studios can support large-scale automotive productions where traditional studio spaces simply cannot provide the required capacity.
Automotive Production at Kinetics Studios
From television productions and automotive advertising to photography, branded content and film, Kinetics Studios provides large-scale studio environments designed around professional production requirements.
Infinity Cove combines a 2,208 cubic metre production space, direct vehicle access and SPECTRA lighting, creating a flexible environment for automotive projects that require significant space and precise lighting control.
With multiple studios available on one site, Kinetics can also support productions requiring different environments throughout the same project.
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