Go right and enter Sound Stage 1 (you meet the director's assistant Sophie outside). When the lead actor storms off, follow him to his trailer and then go get him some coffee (you will need two small cups of different types, one from each shop, to mix them together)
Once you are in the studio, just walk left from Sound Stage 1 and the gate to the street will be open to come and go.
It is to the far right on Sunrise Street.
When you are anywhere inside the studio, drive back to Sound Stage 1 and walk left to exit onto Sunrise Street. The gate is now open.
To leave the studio, you have to drive back to Sound Stage 1. Then you can walk left to exit through the gate. Once you are in the studio, you can come and go as you like.
You can't open the gate from outside. You have to get the camera, get film from the man at the Wax Museum, and climb up to take photos on the balcony next to the studio. When you fall inside, you can open the gate from inside and it stays open.
The deserted studio was the old Grand Majestic Studios. The Warren sisters who own it show up in the Bonus Quest and want you to leave.
You get the camera from the gossip magazine guy, Harvey Scoops, who is standing near the closed studio at the far right of the island (Sunrise Street).
There is no guide. Once you are on the studio lot, you will see the director, Carson Willis, or his assistant Sofia, or both, at the various sound stages.
There are no keys on Back Lot island.
if you guys are listening make a lot of commets about monster high so we can get the island back on poptropica people.
Go into the talent agency. The owner will suggest you meet Harvey Scoops, who is to the far right near the closed studio.
It is on the block to the right of Main Street, along with the movie studio. It is decorative and has huge stone lions out front.