Film / TV / Media Crew - Technical, employment opportunities and ranting

Urgently looking for two trainee sparks and a focus puller for a self-funded 16mm short film this weekend in south London. Expenses paid.

If anyone is interested or has some contacts who might, please shout!

Any FS7 owner ops (seem to be asking this question every month based on the last page!) around on the 20th of this month in London?

Might just buy a second-hand body and have done with.

Also, any audio engineer sorts here? Who could do a decent mix of a few talking heads from different sources and some music? Simple but want it done well. Ideally tomorrow or Fri. Remote.

Hey! if you still need someone, I can do that for you.

PM’d you.

@MCamb do you work in post?

yes :)

cool, same here. you based in soho?

looking for good location sound recordists, with own kit, anyone use any or anyone on here one, let me know and we can discuss rates.

Filipe Pinheiro is superb. Worked with him on features, commercials, corporates and he smashes it every time.

http://www.soundonchannel.com/

Not a Fs7 owner but I'm a Fs700/7Q owner if that fits the bill.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14033311/

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:) Cheers though.

Same thing again then.

Until very recently I was! I’m freelancing at the moment so doing bits here and there. When film work comes in it usually means a solid 6-8 months in one place though.

Does the company you work for only do audio post or does it cover more aspects of post production?

We do full post, I’m in the sound dept and we have grading / vfx and graphics in house.

Anyone know anything about PSE tests/harding etc?

Just had a super fast turnaround project fail PSE on upload to broadcaster and it needs to be delivered to them today.

It's a 30 second animation and the scenes are bright blocks of colour cutting/swiping from one to the other.

I'm hoping it's just some luminance brightness issues that can be resolved at a push of a button but if it's some re-animation I guess we're kinda fucked. It past QC on Honeycomb but Clearcast is flagging the PSE.

I can PM a link to anyone with brains.

not sure if right thread but does anyone know of a mixing room that one can hire (with no engineer / producer attached) ?

Would pref have 5.1 surround capability- for audio post editing and mixing. tia!

Don't know how up to date these are and whether they all offer dry hire but here's a copy/paste from our spreadsheet:

Grand Central Sound Studios
51-53 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7JT

• 44 20 7 306 5600 gcbookings [at] gcrs.com
  
  

Jungle Sound Studios
143-145 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8WB

• 44 207 734 2000 bookings [at] junglestudios.co.uk
  
  

Lipsync Post
Screen House, 123 Wardour Street, London, W1F 0JW

+44 20 7534 9123 enquiries [at] lipsyncpost.co.uk

750mph
20 Golden Square, London, W1F 9JL

• 44 20 7 534 9999 maryann.dcruz [at] 750mph.com
  
  

Wave Sound Studios
32 Great Pulteney Street, London, W1F 9NW
+44 207 439 8080 info [at] wavestudios.co.uk

Angell Sound
Top Floor, Film House, 142 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8ZU

+44 20 7478 7777 info [at] angellsound.co.uk

Envy Post
50A Rathbone Pl, London, W1T 1JW
+44 20 7908 4600 shortformproducers [at] envypost.co.uk

Clearcut Sound Studios
8-12 Broadwick Street, London W1F 8HW
+44 20 7437 5225 bookings [at] clearcutsound.com

Factory Studios
54-55 Margaret Street, London W1W 8SH

+44 207 580 5810 lou [at] factory.uk.com

Soho Square Studios
33 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QU
+44 20 7494 3000 Tom [at] sohosquarestudios.com info [at] sohosquarestudios.com

Gramercy Park Studios
25 Great Pulteney Street, London, W1F 9LT
+44 20 8081 9000 Richard.donaghue [at] gps-ldn.com

UNIT
50 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7JS

• 44 20 7494 5700 Kevin.docherty [at] unit.tv
  
  

Halo
25 Noel Street, London,
W1F 8GX
+44 207 292 8000 film [at] halopost.com david.turner [at] halopost.com

SNK Studios
T: +44 (0)20 7387 0050
A: Midford Place, 114-115 Tottenham Court Rd, London, W1T 5AH
http://www.snkstudios.co.uk

^ They all have 5.1 (and dolby licensing etc)

been out the post production game for a few years but may have to be back in London soon, is every one using Adobe prem now or is Avid still king. I need to get my head round file delivery. I kind of miss it but not the shitty Clients, some were amazing others not so much.

Avid is still king.
But Adobe is everywhere because it's cheap.

I work almost exclusively in online content - mini docs, brand films, event coverage etc. I'm using Premiere. But I've used the Adobe suite since I cut BMX videos with a cracked version as a spotty teen.

Out of the people I know they are largely using Premiere, some using Final Cut Pro. It depends largely on where the finished product is going. I think Avid is still the preserve of television/ film work. However I know Adobe are trying to shoehorn there way into large scale feature film post houses.

Almost exclusively AVID here in broadcast. I’m yet to be forced to learn Premiere.

Premiere is definitely creeping into film, especially lower budget productions. Wouldn’t say it’s the norm though.

It's pretty painless tbh, the level to which you can customise your workspace and keyboard layout is probably the best thing about premiere, I was thrown on a job about 4 years ago without ever using it before, I just spent an hour mirroring my Avid set up and was cutting without problem. I work in short form (50/50 TVC's and web only ads) and most agencies I work with use adobe CC. If you work on longer form which requires multi editor and shared project environments I wouldn't worry about having to use premiere anytime soon as it's complete dog shit for that.