Soho media and post-production community
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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 [edit]
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 [edit]
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 [edit]
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