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Post, which debuted in August, has its teams working remotely across grading, VFX and audio, and has already worked with clients such as Volvo, Pepsi and H&M. “Remote working allows us to scale up and harness the best talent from all over the world, it also allows us to be efficient with our resources,” says co- founder Gareth Brannan. He says the “pandemic has changed everything
in the industry,” forcing both clients and post professionals to find new ways to work and interact. “It was no surprise to us that the technology would hold up, it was the human element that needed to catch up. It didn’t take long for people to adapt and realise that you can work to the highest level without the big office space.” That said, Brannan believes human contact is
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Expectation’s In My Skin was posted at Splice
Top right: Optomen’s Tyson Fury: The Gypsy King with post at Envy
important, and is the reason why Rascal Post has showrooms in London, Bristol and Stockholm which are available when needed. “These rooms are not only a great space to showcase your work but double up, as fully functioning grade and sound studio to ensure our team has the best tools available to work at the highest standards.”
GOING IT ALONE Others have struck out on their own after losing their jobs during the pandemic. Lee Willis did just this after being made redundant from his full time post at Silk Sound in Soho last year. He has since set up his own studio Remote Audio Post – complete with Dolby Atmos - from his home in Haywards Heath, where he works largely on trailers, commercials and promos. Willis says that even before the pandemic, remote
post production was “becoming the new normal.” He too accepts, however, that the future is a hybrid one. Even when planning the studio, he says he always wanted to offer a service that could support higher end studios in town. “I envisage this mix of high spec remote working and the collaboration with high end facilities as a professional, cost-effective workflow for audio post production.”
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Willis adds: “With relationships already forged
with a couple of studios in town, I’ll be looking forward to client attended sessions when required.” Another new remote post house to offer a hybrid
model is Author Productions, which founder and senior colourist Rebecca Goodeve describes as a “collective of really talented freelance individuals who are specialised in their field.” The talent is spread across multiple time zones – the UK, US, Canada and Netherlands - allowing Author to deliver projects that have the tightest of deadlines, says Goodeve. Goodeve also has a physical office in Leigh-
on-Sea, which opened three and a half years ago, which has a Mac Pro, FSI CM250 monitor and new Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel to grade with. For audio, she teams with Vaudeville Sound in a relationship that works both ways: “If anyone comes to us and needs audio doing as well, I’ll pass them over to them and vice versa.” She says it was a massive risk opening up the
studio as she wasn’t sure clients would come and visit. But Leigh-on-Sea is only 40 minutes from Fenchurch Street and she was surprised at how frequently clients came down before the pandemic. “It’s so lovely here in the summer that most of the time I’d see the client in the morning, then they’d disappear for the rest of the day because they were off exploring the town. ‘It’s like being on holiday,’ is the most frequent comment.” If anything the pandemic has proved how
adaptable the post production industry is. All say that remote working will become part of the workflow of the future, but few think the post house itself will disappear anytime soon. “Flexibility is the real thing that is going to come out of this pandemic for the post industry,” says Roundtable’s Ben Coulson. “We’re very optimistic at Splice that not only
has the industry survived, but it’s also learnt and it’s thriving in some respects,” adds Splice’s Richard Folley. “The TV industry is incredibly resourceful – we don’t take no for an answer. We find ways to make things happen.”
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