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  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Versatile 1800 Sq Ft Studio Space in Westlake Village",
  "description": "Discover the brand new 805 Studios, a versatile 1800 square foot studio located in Westlake Village. This space features a full kitchen that can serve as an effective working set piece, providing functionality for various projects. The studio is enhanced with beautiful walnut wood flooring throughout and numerous front windows, offering a daylight studio option. Additionally, the windows can be blacked out, making the studio suitable for standard photography needs.\n\nAmenities include air conditioning and heating, high-speed internet, a hair and makeup area, a client lounge, a green screen, and seamless paper backdrops. For those looking to elevate their production, both strobe and video lighting rental packages are available. The studio is equipped with essential facilities including a security system, stock room, counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, sound and video equipment, electricity, parking, and an elevator. Experience the convenience and flexibility of 805 Studios for your next project.",
  "tldr": "805 Studios is a 167 sqm (1,800 sq ft) daylight studio for rent in Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, finished in walnut wood flooring with a full run of front windows that black out on demand. The space is move-in ready and vetted by Fashion Week Venues as a content studio and brand shoot location. Best For Strongest fit for lookbook and e-commerce photo shoots, video production and branded content days, and collection preview or buyer appointment days using the fitting rooms and garment racks. Also available to hire for small retail activations and pop-up shop trading, and for creative workshops of up to roughly 170 people across the floor. Standout Features Full working kitchen usable as a live set piece rather than back of house, plus blackout-capable front windows that switch the room between natural daylight and controlled studio lighting. Also includes a dedicated hair and makeup area, a separate client lounge, green screen and seamless paper backdrops, fitting rooms with garment racks and a stock room, and strobe or video lighting packages available as an add-on rental with on-site parking and elevator access. Location Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, positioned for car and van access from the 101 corridor with roughly 20 to 25 minutes drive to Calabasas and 40 to 50 minutes to central Los Angeles; nearest regional rail is Moorpark Metrolink at around 20 minutes by car. The immediate street is low-density and quiet commercial, which makes kerbside unload straightforward for crews arriving with rails, lighting and set build. Availability Day rate is USD 660 with a one day minimum, so you can book by the day or book by the week for multi-day production blocks. Book two to three weeks ahead for standard shoot dates and four to six weeks ahead for February and September market and campaign season, when Los Angeles area studios of this size fill fastest. How to Book Send your dates and brief and we confirm availability within 24 hours, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, crew and staffing, and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf, so request availability now to hold your production dates.",
  "activationIdeas": "Strong fit for high volume e-commerce days because the seamless paper backdrops, green screen and blackout-capable front windows give you one repeatable lighting condition from call time to wrap. Brands running catalogue shoots in spaces like this typically set up a single shooting bay against paper, a steaming and styling station beside the garment racks, and use the fitting rooms for fast changes while the stock room holds sealed inventory. Two models plus a four to five person crew work comfortably across 167 sqm. Editorial and Campaign Photo Shoot Works well as an editorial shoot location because the walnut wood flooring and run of front windows read as a real interior on camera rather than a blank studio box. The daylight side carries morning and midday coverage, and blacking out the windows lets you move to strobe for controlled looks in the afternoon without changing location. The full kitchen doubles as a working set piece, and the dedicated hair and makeup area plus client lounge keep talent and clients out of frame. Video Production Credible video stage for brand films and social cutdowns, mainly because the windows black out fully and the basement level position keeps ambient street noise low for dialogue and interview audio. The green screen handles keyed inserts, on-site sound and video equipment covers baseline needs, and strobe or video lighting packages rent in when you need more control. Parking and elevator access mean grip carts and lighting flightcases load in without a long carry, and our team can coordinate production and build for set dressing. Content Creation Day A practical choice for multi-asset content days because you can build three separate looks inside one 167 sqm footprint without redressing between them. In practice the kitchen becomes a lifestyle set, the walnut floor and window wall carry daylight portrait content, and the paper backdrop area handles clean product and packshot frames. Ten to fifteen crew and talent is a comfortable working number here, and you can model cost per asset in the budget calculator before locking dates. SS/AW Seasonal Showroom Functions as a working showroom rental with almost no build required, because the garment racks, fitting rooms, counters and stock room are already in place. Most brands lay out six to ten rails along one wall, keep the client lounge as the sit-down area for line reviews, and use the kitchen as back of house for catering. At this size expect a comfortable single-brand or two-brand collection preview rather than a multi-label market floor, and add display pieces through furniture rental. Buyer Appointments Suits appointment-led wholesale selling because the client lounge, fitting rooms and rail capacity let you run a full buyer preview without hiring separate meeting space. What makes this work for wholesale appointments specifically is on-site parking, which matters for buyers driving in from Los Angeles and the wider 101 corridor. Realistically the layout supports two concurrent appointments plus one team member working the rails, so book back to back rather than attempting a walk-in market format. Sample Sale and Temporary Retail Operationally ready for a short-term commercial sale because counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, a stock room, security system and CCTV are already installed. The honest constraint is footfall: this is a low-density commercial street, so treat it as a list-driven or ticketed sample sale space powered by your own CRM and paid social rather than passing trade. Parking absorbs queueing, and 40 to 60 shoppers inside at once is a workable ceiling with three to four staff from our retail staffing team. Influencer Event Works for creator and influencer days because the space gives guests reasons to shoot in three different corners, which is what drives content volume from an event like this. The kitchen supports live demo or food styling moments, the daylight window wall handles the majority of phone capture, and the lounge gives a seated interview or podcast corner. Keep numbers around 60 to 80 standing rather than pushing higher, since fitting rooms and the single entry point set the practical flow limit. Creative Workshop or Masterclass Genuinely suited to hands-on workshops and masterclasses because the full kitchen is a working set piece rather than back of house, which opens up beauty, food, styling and craft formats in the same room. Seated at tables the floor takes 30 to 40 participants with clear sightlines to a demo counter, and high-speed wifi plus the on-site sound and video equipment covers livestream or hybrid delivery. Air conditioning and heating make longer half-day sessions comfortable year round.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This 167 sqm studio suits a brand with a 4 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 8 years of trading, and an existing DTC or wholesale base that shoots content on a monthly or seasonal cycle. That is the profile that gets the most from this space in our experience, because 1,800 sq ft is enough to run a shooting bay, a hair and makeup area, fitting rooms and a client lounge simultaneously without a crew of eight tripping over each other, and the on-site parking plus elevator means a founder-led team can load rails and lighting cases without a production manager to coordinate access. Brands at this stage typically find that the one day minimum lets them book single lookbook days rather than committing to a lease. Where we see mismatches is with two groups: solo founders shooting flatlays who will underuse the footprint and the lighting infrastructure, and large houses running a 40 person campaign crew with talent holding, catering and set build in parallel, who will feel the basement floor level and the single main room as a constraint by mid-morning. Aesthetic Fit Warm, natural, California lifestyle aesthetics work here with almost no intervention. The walnut wood flooring and the run of front windows give you soft daylight over a warm-toned base, which flatters activewear, swim, surf, denim, knitwear, resortwear, wellness and home goods, and the full working kitchen is a genuine set piece for food, supplement, homeware and lifestyle content rather than a back of house afterthought. Brands with an earthy, editorial or documentary visual language will find the room already speaks their dialect. What does not work is high-gloss luxury minimalism, cold gallery-white brand worlds, or anything that needs a raw industrial concrete shell, because the walnut floor reads warm in every frame and fighting it means laying floor and building walls. Blackout capability, green screen and seamless paper cover you for controlled studio looks, and if your identity genuinely needs a hard architectural set our production and build team will tell you honestly whether the spend is justified in a room this size. Best Use Cases First choice is lookbook and e-commerce photography, because the daylight windows, blackout option, seamless paper, fitting rooms, garment racks and stock room cover a full shooting day end to end. Second is video production and branded content, supported by sound and video equipment, video lighting packages and a room deep enough to keep camera back from subject. Third is collection preview and wholesale appointment days, where the client lounge, private basement level and counters let you sit a buyer down away from the shooting floor. Fourth is a content studio day for social and influencer output, since multiple set zones including the kitchen give a team several distinct backdrops in one booking. Fifth is a creative workshop or masterclass, workable with furniture rental to reconfigure the floor. Sixth is a private sample sale or invite-only retail activation, viable with fitting rooms and counters already in place but only with an audience driven entirely by email and paid social, as there is no passing footfall at this address. Budget Signal This sits in the accessible middle of the Los Angeles area studio market and well below comparable equipped studios in the Arts District, Culver City or the Fairfax corridor, where the same square footage with lighting infrastructure commands a meaningfully higher day rate before you add parking and permit friction. What you are paying for here is inclusion rather than address: hair and makeup area, client lounge, fitting rooms, stock room, green screen, seamless backdrops, sound and video equipment, on-site parking and elevator access are already in the room, so a brand is not stacking rental line items the way it would in a bare white-box space. Against a hotel event room you gain production capability and lose prestige; against a co-working venue you gain light control and privacy; against a shared pop-up format you gain full-day exclusivity and no neighbouring brand competing for attention. Run the numbers through our budget calculator before you compare it against a central Los Angeles booking, because the crew travel time is the real cost variable, not the rate.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Commercial photographers, e-commerce production teams, and direct-to-consumer apparel brands are the working population of this pocket of Westlake Village, and they are here because the business parks off Lindero Canyon Road, Agoura Road, and Via Colinas were built for exactly this kind of quiet, high-throughput creative work. Within a short drive you have post houses and edit suites clustered around the Agoura Road corridor, a run of independent design and branding agencies servicing the Conejo Valley's consumer goods companies, and a steady supply of activewear, swim, surf, and lifestyle labels headquartered between Westlake and Newbury Park who shoot catalogue and campaign content on a monthly cycle. The Promenade at Westlake and the Westlake Village Civic Arts Plaza area anchor the more public-facing side of the neighbourhood, while the studio, sample, and stockroom activity happens behind unmarked doors in the low-rise commercial blocks. In our experience placing brands in this part of Ventura County, the ecosystem is production-led rather than retail-led, and teams looking at spaces in New York for a comparable footprint are usually surprised by how much square footage and crew comfort the same budget buys here. Cost per square foot and total control over the shoot day are the two reasons brands choose Westlake Village over the saturated Los Angeles studio zones, and the tradeoff is genuinely worth naming. Downtown Arts District, Frogtown, Culver City, and the Fairfax and Melrose corridor all carry higher day rates, tighter parking, permit friction, and the constant risk of a neighbouring production competing for kerb space. Here you get on-site parking, elevator access, a loading approach a van can actually reach, and no queue for the freight lift. The 101 puts Calabasas twenty to twenty five minutes away and central Los Angeles at forty to fifty, which is workable for a talent call time of nine but genuinely painful if you are asking editors or buyers to come out from the Westside at four in the afternoon. That is the honest tradeoff. What Westlake Village does not give you is cultural adjacency, so if your press day depends on stylists and journalists treating the visit as part of a wider circuit of appointments, this is the wrong postcode. If your day is a controlled brand shoot location, a lookbook block, or an invite-only buyer appointment venue where guests are driving anyway, the maths works. Our venue sourcing team runs this comparison for clients weekly. Arriving here feels like arriving at an office park, and that is largely the point. The immediate block is low-rise commercial with landscaped verges, generous kerb, and neighbours who are accountants, medical practices, and light industrial tenants rather than footfall businesses. Mornings bring a short commuter surge between eight and nine, then the street settles into near silence until lunch, which is when crews walk out for coffee and the pace briefly picks up again. Afternoons are quiet enough that you can unload rails, seamless rolls, and lighting cases at three in the afternoon without competing with anyone. The basement studio level means no street-facing window presence, but it also means total light control and a genuinely private client lounge experience, which is what we consistently hear brand teams value most when they bring a founder or a key account buyer on site. The honest note: this neighbourhood is not suited to walk-in temporary retail, spontaneous discovery, or any pop-up shop model that depends on passing pedestrians, and a sample sale here needs its own audience driven entirely by email and paid social. Use the ROI estimator before committing to a retail-format booking at this address.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is this space available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes, 805 Studios is available for pop-up shops and temporary retail on a short-term rental basis, and the fit-out already leans that way. The 1,800 sq ft floor comes with counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and a stock room, which are the four things most brands otherwise have to build from scratch in a raw Los Angeles area studio. Because the space sits in a low-density commercial pocket of Westlake Village rather than on a high-footfall retail street, brands running pop-up shop formats here typically treat it as an appointment-led or invite-led activation supported by local paid media rather than a walk-in trading floor. If your goal is pure passing footfall, tell us in your brief and we will pull comparable options when you browse all spaces"
    },
    {
      "question": "What does Fashion Week Venues handle on my behalf for this booking?",
      "answer": "We handle the full path from enquiry to load-out, so your team only manages the brand side. At this address specifically we manage the availability hold and contract with the studio owner, the temporary use agreement wording, any Thousand Oaks or Ventura County permissions relating to signage and retail use, lighting and equipment package add-ons, furniture, staffing and load-in scheduling into the elevator. We also brief the crew on the blackout window setup and the kitchen set piece so your first hour on site is not spent working out how the room behaves. There is no charge until confirmed, and you can review how our process works"
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate and is there a minimum booking?",
      "answer": "The day rate is USD 660 with a one day minimum, so you can book by the day for a single shoot or block consecutive days for a longer production. Multi-day and multi-week bookings are quoted on request and we negotiate the rate directly with the owner on your behalf, which usually produces better terms than a straight per-day multiplication. Lighting rental packages, staffing and any fit-out sit outside the base rate and are priced against your brief. If you want to model total spend before enquiring, our budget calculator"
    },
    {
      "question": "How much lead time do I need to book this studio?",
      "answer": "Two to three weeks is comfortable for a standard shoot date, and four to six weeks is safer for February and September campaign and market season. In our experience handling bookings at studios of this size in the greater Los Angeles area, February and September are when brands shooting for market fill the calendar first, and single days get taken quickly. Because the minimum is one day, cancellations do open up short-notice windows, so it is always worth asking even for next week. Send your dates and we reply within 24h with a firm yes or no on availability."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can the studio be used as both a daylight and a blackout studio?",
      "answer": "Yes, and this is the main practical reason brands hire this space. The run of front windows gives you genuine natural daylight across the walnut wood flooring for softer editorial and e-commerce work, and the same windows black out on demand when you need full control for strobe or video lighting. That means a single day rental can cover a daylight morning block and a controlled afternoon block without moving locations, which is where most of the cost saving sits. Green screen and seamless paper backdrops are on site as well, so you can move between three distinct looks inside the 167 sqm floor."
    },
    {
      "question": "What lighting and AV equipment is included or available?",
      "answer": "Sound and video equipment and base lighting are included with the rental, and strobe or video lighting packages are available as a separate add-on. Brands running video production in this type of space typically find the included kit fine for interviews and simple product motion, then add a strobe package for stills days where you need consistent output against the seamless paper. Tell us the shot list in your brief and we will size the package rather than over-specifying it, which is the most common way budgets leak on a shoot day. High-speed internet, wifi and full power are in place for live retouching, tethering or streaming."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is the space suitable for a showroom or buyer appointments?",
      "answer": "Yes, it works well as a temporary fashion showroom because the appointment-side infrastructure is already installed. You get fitting rooms, garment racks, counters, a stock room for backup sizes and a separate client lounge, which means buyers and press can be received in one zone while sampling and steaming happen in another. The 1,800 sq ft floor holds a collection preview comfortably without feeling crowded, and the daylight windows matter when buyers are assessing fabric and colour accurately. On-site parking is a genuine advantage for a Westlake Village showroom rental, since buyers in Ventura County will almost all arrive by car."
    },
    {
      "question": "How does the full kitchen work for productions?",
      "answer": "The kitchen is a working, fully functional set piece rather than a hidden back of house galley, so you can shoot in it as well as cook in it. That makes the space useful for lifestyle, food-adjacent and homeware content where you need a credible domestic kitchen without hiring a separate house location for a second day. It also serves the practical function of crew catering and craft services on longer shoot days, which keeps your team on site rather than driving out to the 101. Brands booking this studio for content creation days frequently use the kitchen for both purposes across the same rental."
    },
    {
      "question": "What loading, elevator and parking access is there?",
      "answer": "There is on-site parking and elevator access to the studio, which sits at basement level. Kerbside unload on this street in Westlake Village is straightforward because the immediate area is quiet, low-density commercial rather than congested retail, so crews arriving with rails, flight cases and lighting are not fighting for a bay. The elevator means garment rails and set build do not need to be carried down stairs, but you should confirm oversized item dimensions with us before the day if you are bringing large flats or a vehicle onto set. We schedule load-in and load-out windows as part of the booking so your crew is not overlapping with anyone else."
    },
    {
      "question": "How many people can the space hold for a workshop or event?",
      "answer": "The occupancy estimate across the 167 sqm floor is around 170 people, which covers a standing brand presentation, a press day or a creative workshop with room for a set at one end. For seated workshop formats with tables you should plan on a much lower working number, and we will lay out a realistic floor plan against your format before you book. Air conditioning and heating are installed, which matters more than people expect for a full room in a basement-level studio during a Southern California summer. Furniture is on site and additional pieces can be added through our furniture rental"
    },
    {
      "question": "Do I need a permit to run a retail activation or shoot here?",
      "answer": "For an interior photo shoot or video production inside a licensed studio you generally will not need a City of Thousand Oaks film permit, but selling product, exterior signage, amplified sound or any street-facing element usually does trigger a permission. Retail activations are normally documented through a licence to occupy or a temporary use agreement with the owner rather than a commercial lease, which is what keeps a short-term rental of this length workable. We confirm the exact requirement against your specific format before you sign anything, because the trigger in Ventura County is what you are doing rather than how long you are there. Our permit guide"
    },
    {
      "question": "Where exactly is the studio and how far is it from Los Angeles?",
      "answer": "805 Studios is in Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, in Ventura County, positioned for easy car and van access off the 101 corridor. Calabasas is roughly 20 to 25 minutes by car and central Los Angeles is around 40 to 50 minutes depending on traffic, with the nearest regional rail at Moorpark Metrolink about 20 minutes away. This is a drive-to location, so brands hire it when the priority is a controlled, quiet production environment with parking rather than city-centre footfall. Crews and talent based in the Valley or Malibu often reach it faster than a downtown studio."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is there a hair and makeup area and a client lounge?",
      "answer": "Yes, both are dedicated zones rather than corners of the main floor. The hair and makeup area lets talent prep without blocking the set, and the separate client lounge means brand stakeholders, agency or press can sit somewhere comfortable while shooting continues. In our experience handling bookings for shoot days, having these two rooms separated is what allows a single-day schedule to actually finish on time, because prep and approvals run in parallel with the set. Combined with the fitting rooms and stock room, the studio is genuinely move-in ready for a full production day."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can Fashion Week Venues provide staff and build for my activation?",
      "answer": "Yes, we provide staffing, build and design support alongside the space so you are not coordinating three suppliers yourself. For a retail activation here that typically means brand-trained hosts, a point of sale setup, signage and any set or shelving build sized to the 1,800 sq ft floor and installed via the elevator. For shoot and video days it more often means crew, lighting technicians and on-site production management. You can add retail staffing"
    },
    {
      "question": "How do I enquire and what happens next?",
      "answer": "Send us your dates, format and headcount and we will confirm availability at 805 Studios and reply within 24h. From there you receive a written quote covering the day rate, any lighting or furniture add-ons, staffing and permit handling, and nothing is charged until the booking is confirmed. Once you accept, we issue the temporary use agreement, collect the deposit, and schedule load-in, install and load-out around your production plan. If you are still comparing options, request availability on this space and one or two alternatives at the same time and we will run them side by side for you."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "$660 / day. Weekly and press-preview rates are quoted on request."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is staging, branding and fit-out permitted?",
      "answer": "Yes. Fashion Week Venues runs the full production build — signage, fixtures, lighting, sound, catering and staffing — subject to venue rules. Include your fit-out brief in the inquiry."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is included?",
      "answer": "Included on-site: Internet, Air Conditioning, Security System, Stock Room, Counters, Fitting Rooms, Garment Rack, Lighting."
    },
    {
      "question": "How far in advance should we book?",
      "answer": "Fashion week windows book 6–10 weeks out. Off-season activations can be secured in 2–3 weeks."
    }
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