SURVEY


FACILITIES 50 INTRODUCTION


what, essentially, all post houses whatever their speciality and genre, are doing: “Nearly all of our employees now work some, if not the majority of time, from home. We definitely see much more of this. Remote work has become not only accepted but a necessity due to the pandemic.” The fact is, clients and (hard to


retain) staff both like a hybrid working life , and also demand it. But there are other advantages to post houses too. “At the start of the pandemic


PERCENTAGE OF 55


RESPONDENTS WHO SAID TURNOVER HAD


RISEN FROM THEIR 2020 PERFORMANCE. 30


PERCENT SAID IT WAS


DOWN AND 15 PERCENT SAID IT STAYED THE SAME


we reduced our office footprint dramatically and shifted our machine room into a data center to allow for maximum flexibility,” says BlueBolt. “Our current staff to desk ratio is 2:1 which can easily accommodate a WFH/WFO hybrid.” Put simply an “increase in remote


working means an increase in saleable services without increase in phyiscal footprint,” says TVC Soho. “Remote tools have given the facilities the option to increase capacity without increasing their sq.ft. cost,” says Molinare. And that’s a huge advantage to post houses wherever they’re based. The rise of remote working has


1 Axis Studios’work on Love, Death and Robots Vol II


2 Yellow Moon


worked on the latest Line of Duty


opened up other possibilities too. Talent can now be accessed anywhere in the world for one. “We set up extremely quickly to accommodate remote working, which has facilitated greater collaboration between our global studios and broken down location- based barriers, giving us access to a greater pool of talent,” says MPC. As Cinesite says, remote working


offers the “flexibility to scale up our teams beyond the capacity of our


studios or outside of the cities Cinesite operates in. Productions can be more mobile, establishing visual effects outposts anywhere in the world to maximise tax incentives.” There is a far greater chance of


securing work from clients not based in the UK. “Technology and remote working has opened up the global market more than ever,” says No.8. Yellow Moon too says that “given that a lot of our business comes from overseas we can see huge advantages to continuing certain aspects of that remote workflow.” And for those based outside the capital, there are opportunities. “With the success of cross-site and remote working the industry will continue moving to being less London Centric,” says Axis. The opportunities are there to be


grasped by the UK’s post production industry, as long as it can move fast enough to catch them.


SIX YEARS Of top 10 facilities


2021 01 The Farm 02 Framestore 03 Envy 04 The Mill 05 MPC 06 Evolutions 07 dock10 08 Films at 59 09 Molinare 10 Halo


2019 4 3 5 1 2 6


13 11 7 9


2018 4 2 5 1 3 6


14 10 7 9


2017 4 3 5 1 2 6 - - 6 8


2016 4 3 5 1 2 7 - - 6 9


2015 4 3 5 1 2 9 - - 7


11 nb. Facilities were not ranked in the 2020 survey


NEARLY ALL OUR EMPLOYEES NOW WORK SOME, IF NOT THE


TIME, FROM HOME ILM


MAJORITY OF


1 Winter 2021 F09


2 televisual.com


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