Twenty years of making things in a very old building

The building

The barn was built to store grain. The bones of that job are still visible: the timber frame, the height, the volume. Those same qualities turn out to be exactly what a film studio needs. The roof is tall enough for a 4.5m lighting grid. The floor is big enough for vehicles. The walls are far enough apart to build whole rooms inside.

The timeline

The studio opened in 2005 and has run continuously since. The multi-camera podcast suite was added in 2020, when business podcasting moved from novelty to normal. The rain rig arrived in 2025, one of very few in the South of England. Each addition followed the same logic: what do the people who shoot here keep asking for?

The work

Crews have recreated a cottage interior here for a national broadcaster. A materials manufacturer commissioned an underground well, built and shot on site. An international spill-response organisation filmed an aircraft delivery system explainer with us. Music videos, fashion editorials, cooking shows and several hundred podcast episodes fill the gaps between.

Most of what gets shot here stays private. A few clients are happy to be named, and these are the ones whose sites and shows we also build and run.

Ask when you visit and we will happily talk through the jobs we cannot put on a page.

The people

Granary Digital is run by James Jones, with a network of trusted freelance crew who work the building week in, week out: directors, camera operators, gaffers, sound recordists, editors and an in-house set construction team. The same faces come back because the building is good to work in and the kit is looked after. You can book that crew for your own production.

Where we are

The Old Grainstore, Adsdean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 9DN. Ten minutes from Chichester and Havant stations, twenty from Portsmouth, ninety from London off-peak by road. Fifteen parking spaces on site.