Beach with Cliffs Set

The Beach with Cliffs set is a hidden cove you would normally need a boat to reach. Pale sand and pebbles run down to still, clear water, bleached driftwood lies where the tide left it, and sheer white cliffs climb straight out of the sea. Across the water, mountains sit on the horizon under a bright sky.

A beach film set with sea cliffs, sand and driftwood

Walk the shoreline and the cove keeps giving you places to put the camera. There is a small sea cave at the foot of the cliff, an overhang of rock you can shoot from underneath, and a tiny stone chapel with a cross on its roof, standing alone on the sand. Shoot it wide for the scale of the cliffs, or come in close on your actors at the water’s edge. From above, the whole beach is one small crescent of sand tucked under the rock.

What the cove plays

It is the island where your castaway washes up, the secret beach two people find on vacation, the chapel at the end of a pilgrimage and the cove where the smugglers come ashore. It works for a survival story, a romance, a travel host wrap or a commercial that wants sun, stone and clear blue water behind the product. Real sand, driftwood, rocks and props can sit in the foreground where your cast works, and they blend with the virtual cove in camera.

No boat, no tide table

A real cove like this means a remote location, a boat for the crew, a tide table and a weather day in the budget. Here it is a virtual standing set that loads in seconds at our Burbank and Albuquerque studios, with lighting and audio packages and the virtual system operator who runs the set included.

Pair it with the Beach Parking Lot set for the arrival, the Nordic Coast set for a colder shoreline or the Seaside Town set for the village up the road. For a series or feature, see how film studio rental works.