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tasks, says Dirty Looks, with “a higher ratio of centrally located space being used for front-end client attend suites. Producers, assistants and other team members are more likely to be housed elsewhere.” A post-Covid post house will


see remote offline editing as the norm, says Fifty Fifty and “storage and offline machines will likely move to the cloud. Post houses will give more emphasis to fine cut and finishing sessions. Fine Cut edit suites and viewing rooms will be larger and feel more like the finishing suite environment.” Freefolk too sees a future with


“smaller office space in a central location for team meetings and client sessions.” ITN Post says that “we may be in a world where only sign offs are done in the building and we end up re-configuring as screening rooms.” There will be a “flexible approach


to remote working,” says No.8 with a “central hub for presentations and physical collaborations but with an expanded global creative workforce.” With more offlines done remotely


“that could lead to smaller physical footprints or repurposing of space for more final post suites or screening rooms within the post houses,” says Roundtable. Virtual Post too sees more “remote / flexible offlining, with small state of the art finishing centres in key media areas.” Run VT too says that the next premises they look for “will be an open plan floor instead of a premises with lots of rooms. Hopefully all our rooms will be finishing suites instead of offline.”


BRICKS AND MORTAR All of this, along with the financial hit that all are taking right now, is leading post houses to question the amount of prime city centre floorspace they’ll need in the long term. As Platform says: “companies with a lot of property will be under a lot of pressure.” Because, says Arteus “post houses will struggle to justify high cost city centre property for low rent offline suites.” Glassworks also feels that “floor space and central London rent values will be questioned.” Suite notes that there will be “more streamlined, smaller West End based operations with the majority of offline work being carried out remotely, so reducing need for costly overheads” which will make businesses “more efficient and able to deal with every downward pressure on budgets.” Technicolor similarly says that


while “we still need reference- quality rooms that will remain onsite. We have been moving production technology off premises” and all of this “will slow the need for increasing our real estate footprint in Central London.”


THERE’S NO LIMIT For many, the move to remote working has opened up the possibilities of future expansion without all the attendant costs. Rapid Pictures says that the way is more open now to “increasing revenue without increasing footprint and rent bills with remote


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1 Molinare posted Amazon’s Truth Seekers


2 Evolutions worked on Rare TV’s Ice Airport Alaska


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