Vertical micro drama production in LA and Albuquerque
Vertical Drama & Micro Drama Production Studio
The jet, the penthouse, the CEO office and the hospital load on one floor in LA or Albuquerque, so your vertical drama shoots 15 to 25+ pages a day.
- Virtual system operator included
- 250+ sets ready to load
- Built for the 9:16 frame
- You keep the IP and the credit
Browse the set library: 250+ ready-to-load sets →
Or call 818-934-3775 Burbank 818-861-7317 Albuquerque
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Vertical drama and scripted scenes shot here.
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Micro drama sets
The jets, penthouses, offices and hospitals micro dramas are written in.
What's included
Episode volume needs a studio that keeps up.
- Virtual system operator included in every rental, driving the sets in real time
- 250+ ready-to-load sets: private jet, penthouse, CEO office, hospital, restaurant and more
- Zero company moves: every location swaps in on the same floor, the same day
- 15 to 25+ pages a day, against the traditional 5 to 8
- Blocking, lighting and monitoring arranged for 9:16 vertical framing
- Lighting, grip and audio packages already on the floor
- Dressing rooms, makeup, green rooms and production offices
- Cinema cameras available; jib (Burbank) and telescoping crane (Albuquerque); optional camera crew or bring your own
- Sets live on drives, so pickups and a second season reload the exact set, lighting and framing
Productions that have trusted us
The networks, the streamers and the studios have all shot here.
Hart to Heart, Aquaman 2, Inventing Anna, Bosch, The Mummy, Greenland, Deadliest Catch and national spots for T-Mobile, Amazon and Domino's. Full credit list
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Tell us the format and your dates. A producer replies with availability and a quote.
- Included: the studio, 250+ ready-to-load sets, lighting, grip and audio, dressing and green rooms, and the operator who runs the virtual sets
- Two studios, in Burbank, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque shoots qualify for New Mexico’s 30% refundable film credit
- Quoted against your actual shoot, never a rack rate
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Shoot vertical drama faster, without company moves
The vertical drama format, also called micro drama, isn’t traditional television scaled down. It’s a different production math entirely. 80-episode runs, eight-day shoot schedules, 15–25 pages a day, and a single 9:16 point-of-view aspect ratio. The stages that worked for traditional film were never built for that.
Ours were rebuilt for it.
Every location, one stage
The billionaire-romance vertical drama needs roughly the same set of locations every time: a private jet, a penthouse, a CEO office, a hospital room, a city street, occasionally a rooftop or restaurant. Every one of those loads in minutes on our stage.
That means you can shoot the CEO Office scene at 9:00 AM, the Private Jet scene at 11:00 AM, and the Hospital scene after lunch: all without ever leaving the soundstage. No trucks. No travel. No setup delays.
Zero company moves = more pages per day
This is the unlock. Traditional production loses 20–40% of every shoot day to setup, breakdown, and travel between locations. Vertical drama can’t afford that loss and stay on its 8-day clock.
When the entire location list lives on one stage, that 20–40% goes back into shooting. The result: 15–25+ pages a day, every day, with the on-camera quality the format demands.
Built for the 9:16 frame
The lighting, the camera placement, the on-set monitoring. Everything is calibrated to the vertical frame. That sounds like a small thing. It’s not. A horizontal stage retrofit for vertical drama is a slower, more error-prone production than a stage that was designed for it.
The vertical-streaming platforms set a fast, demanding standard for micro-series. We’re built to meet it.
This isn’t a compromise solution. It’s a production multiplier.
The math is straightforward: more pages per day, fewer crew days, no company moves, lower base budget. The same script ships in less time at lower cost. And looks better doing it.
A micro drama production company’s stage partner
Micro drama producers run the tightest math in the industry: 60–100 episodes, an eight-day clock, and a per-minute budget that punishes every company move. That’s exactly the production we built for. Whether your team calls it micro drama, vertical drama, or a vertical micro-series, the stage works the same way. Every location loads in seconds, the crew package is available, and the 9:16 frame is the native format, not an afterthought. Micro drama production companies and vertical-streaming platforms use us as the stage their shows shoot on; you keep the IP, the platform deal, and the credit.
A production partner built for the vertical format
Most vertical-drama production companies and streaming platforms don’t want another vendor competing for their show. They want a stage that makes the schedule possible. That’s what we are. Bring your script, cast, and creative; we provide the patented virtual production stage, where every location is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your cast live, in camera, the optional crew to run it, and 250+ instantly loadable locations, a private jet, a penthouse, a CEO office, a hospital room, so the whole series shoots in one building.
It’s the same pipeline at both stages, Burbank and Albuquerque, so you can shoot wherever your cast, crew base, or incentives point you. New Mexico’s 30% refundable film tax credit applies on the Albuquerque stage.
If you’re producing a vertical drama or micro-series and need to hit an eight-day clock without losing days to company moves, tell us about your series and we’ll scope it against your real schedule and budget: here’s what drives the number.
Sample gallery
A closer look at our vertical drama sets.
A look at vertical drama shot at L.A. & ABQ Castle Studios.
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Questions
Vertical drama studio questions, answered.
- What is vertical drama?
- Vertical drama is a short-form, mobile-first format: serialized micro-series shot vertically for a 9:16 phone screen, usually 60–100 episodes of one to two minutes each, made for vertical-streaming apps. It isn't traditional television scaled down, it's its own production math, with 80-episode runs, eight-day shoot schedules and 15–25 pages a day.
- How do you produce a vertical drama series?
- On a single stage with zero company moves. The billionaire-romance format needs roughly the same locations every time, a private jet, a penthouse, a CEO office, a hospital room, a city street, and every one loads on our stage in minutes. You shoot the CEO office at 9 AM, the jet at 11 AM and the hospital after lunch without ever leaving the soundstage, which is how the 8-day clock stays on schedule.
- How many pages a day can you shoot?
- 15–25+ pages a day, versus the traditional 5–8. Conventional production loses 20–40% of every day to setup, breakdown and travel between locations; when the entire location list lives on one stage, that time goes back into shooting. Which is exactly what the vertical format's fast turnaround demands.
- Is micro drama the same as vertical drama?
- Yes, "micro drama" and "vertical drama" are the same format under different names: short, mobile-first serialized series shot in 9:16 for vertical-streaming apps, typically 60–100 one-to-two-minute episodes. Some teams also call it a vertical micro-series. Whatever you call it, the production approach is identical, and our stage is built for it.
- Do you offer vertical drama production services, or just stage rental?
- Both. The virtual system operator who runs the sets is included in every rental, so you can bring your own crew, or shoot with our turnkey crew and real-time pipeline. Operators, virtual art department, lighting, and 250+ ready-to-load locations. Most vertical-drama production companies and platforms come to us as their stage partner: they bring the script, cast, and creative, and we hand them the floor and the people to run it. You keep your production and your credit; we make the 8-day clock work.
More for vertical and micro-drama producers
- Micro drama production companies guide The companies and the apps that commission them
- Business jet set The private jet a billionaire romance keeps returning to
- The Gallery Penthouse set Where billionaire romance lives
- Hospital sets For the medical drama and the accident episode
- Office and CEO suite sets The corner office, the open-plan floor and the executive suite
- Virtual standing sets The rooms a season keeps coming back to
- How the live composite works Our patented CastleVision method
- New Mexico 30% film tax credit For a season shot in Albuquerque
- Vertical drama reel Micro-series scenes shot here
- Feature Films and Series
- Talk Shows
- Game Shows
- The Burbank studio Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, minutes from the major lots
- The Albuquerque studio Feature films and New Mexico’s 30% refundable credit
- The set library Every set, searchable by room and theme
- Rates and what drives the cost How a production is priced
Tours run by appointment at both studios. Bring the script or the rundown and we will price the shoot against it.
