Planning · 28 September 2026 · 6 min
Space, power and ceiling height: what a 360 booth needs from your venue
Everything your venue coordinator will ask, on one page, so you can forward it instead of relaying it. These are our numbers; most operators are within a foot or two.
The short version
| Footprint | 10 × 10 ft minimum, 12 × 12 ft preferred |
| Overhead clearance | 8 ft, clear of chandeliers and low beams |
| Power | One dedicated 20A circuit within 50 ft |
| Surface | Level and solid — no soft grass, no sand, no slope |
| Load-in | 90 minutes before guests, service entrance |
| Strike | 45 minutes after the contracted end |
Why the footprint is bigger than the platform
The platform itself is about a metre across — a tempered-glass deck on a steel drum. The number your venue needs is not the platform — it is the circle the camera arm sweeps, plus the lighting stands outside that circle, plus somewhere for the next group to stand while the current one is shooting.
Ten by ten works. Twelve by twelve is better, because it gives the attendant room to pose people and keeps the queue out of a service aisle. If the only space available is eight by eight, we will tell you — it physically fits and it will feel cramped all night, and you deserve to know that before you book, not after.
Overhead clearance is the one that catches people out
Eight feet, clear. The arm travels above head height, and ballrooms are full of things that hang: chandeliers, pipe and drape, uplighting on stands, floral installations over the dance floor. The common failure is a room that technically has 14-foot ceilings but has a chandelier hanging to seven feet exactly where the booth was going.
Walk the room with your planner and look up, not just down.
Power, in plain terms
One dedicated 20-amp circuit, within about 50 feet. Dedicated matters more than the amperage: a booth sharing a circuit with a catering warmer or the DJ’s amplifier will trip it at the worst possible moment.
Historic venues — the mansions and clubs that are the most beautiful rooms in Los Angeles — were wired long before anyone imagined this. If the house circuit will not carry it, we bring our own distribution and a silent battery supply. Tell us the venue at booking and we will find out before the day.
Outdoors: yes, with conditions
- Level and solid. A terrace, a loggia, a tented deck, a flat patio. Not a lawn — the platform sinks and will not stay level, and nobody looks good on a tilted floor.
- Under cover. The platform and the electronics cannot be rained on. A tent counts; an optimistic weather forecast does not.
- Wind. Above about 15 mph, the lighting stands become a safety problem. We will have a plan with you before the day for where the booth moves if the wind picks up.
- Light. It still needs to be dark-ish to look like anything. Outdoors, that means after sunset — a booth running at 4pm in full sun produces clips that could have been shot on a phone.
Where to put it in the room
Near the dance floor, not on it. Visible from the bar, because the queue forms where people are already standing. Out of the sightline of the stage, so the line never competes with a speech. And not immediately beside the DJ, where the two attendants end up shouting over each other all night.
The best position is usually the corner nearest the dance floor with its back to a wall — the wall gives the lighting something to work against, and it keeps guests from wandering through the back of the shot.
What we send your venue
As soon as a date is confirmed: a scaled footprint diagram, the power draw, the crew call times, our certificate of insurance naming the property as additional insured, and a strike plan. Your coordinator should never have to ask us for any of it.