Soho media and post-production community

Much of the British independent film, television and post-production industry is based around London's Soho area. Many of the people who work in the industry form a village-like community, with the various companies hiring and re-hiring one another's employees, and, like many other villages, having a lively social life based around gossip and the eighty or so pubs in Soho.

Post-production companies in Soho include:

• Ascent Media
• Aspect Film and Video
• Cinesite
• Clear Cut Pictures
• Clearcut Sound
• Double Negative
• ENVY Post Production
• Framestore CFC
• Goldcrest Post-Production
• LOLA VFX
• M2 Television
• The Mill
• Molinare
• Moving Picture Company
• Evolutions Television
• Pepper Post
• Pink Pigeon Ltd
• Prime Focus Group
• Reliance MediaWorks Ltd - worked on the hit film Avatar @ 55 Poland Street, London, W1F 7NN[1]
• Run Productions
• Rushes
• Soho Studios Audio Post
• Smoke and Mirrors
• The Yard
• The Tape Gallery
• UNIT
• VTR plc
• @Voytek
• Wise Buddah

Locations

The above listed "Cinesite" company is near London's Piccadilly Circus, though there is also a non-graphical department based at Pinewood Studios, who for eg- made some of mechanical props for the Harry Potter films, amougst other productions.

"The Mill" is at the western end of Dean Street and is in a white 3-storey building with a purple door. Whereas a rival Co "Framestore-CFC" is just a minutes walk away along the same road, being midway along, on a corner, with a large windowed frontage along its ground-floor.

Also, though not media related, but CGI related, is Sony's PlayStation game creation department of Europe, which is also located in London's Soho, specifically off Golden Square, the latter having a sleeping-giant sculpture that is opposite the front door of SCE. This video-game studio is housed in a large stone-built prestige-looking building with a brass plaque out front. You can see this iconic sculpture with the SCE building behind it in this photo - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Golden_square_1.jpg.

MPC's office location is detailed on the webpage ~ http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=927&Itemid=883.

Other London VFX Companies

As both a name-drop, plus an example of their work, these FX companies all worked on the hit James Bond film Skyfall.

• 'Blind Ltd London' are in central london's zone 2, whereas the above 'SoHo' based companies are in London's zone 1 region ~ http://www.blind-online.com.
• http://www.peerless.co.uk/
• http://www.nvizible.com/sm/about/
• http://www.blue-bolt.com/
• http://baseblack.com/about-2/

See also

• Groucho Club
• Los Angeles media and post-production community