New Sound Studios to Open at Mosfilm

29-04-2008

New Sound Studios to Open at Mosfilm

By Anna Franklin

Mosfilm Cinema Concern is set to expand its world-class Sound Studios complex this June with the opening of a newly reconstructed building housing four new state-of-the art sound studios.

The new studios are a unique acoustic project developed by English acoustic architect Andy Munro and will offer a Dolby Premier-class large mixing studio, foley studio and two studios of ProTools system digital edition making the new facility one of the best and most modern in Europe.
The project is just one part of an ongoing, multi-million dollar investment programme carried out over the past 10 years that has made Mosfilm Cinema Concern’s Sound Studios both the largest and the best equipped sound studios in Russia and one of the best in Europe.
The Mosfilm Sound Studios are presently housed in a modern four storey building covering 6000 square meters. This includes 12 studios which provide a full range of sound facilities: music recording, dialogue recording studios, foley, electronic synthesis and soundtrack restoration. Mosfilm also offers a number of sound libraries of foley and music, Pro Tools operating rooms, Dolby final mixing, mixing for DVD and TV in all formats as well as three music recording studios and a mastering studio for recording music of all formats and genres.
Formerly many Russian producers preferred to edit or mix the material shot by Russian companies abroad. But today Mosfilm’s Sound Studio offers producers all the latest equipment found in any European film studio as well as operators who are first class professional specialists.
Mosfilm’s music studio became one of the best in Europe after a large-scale modernization overseen by the famous English acoustic architect Mr. Roger D’Arcy.
Mosfilm’s mixing studios became the first studios in the world to be granted a Dolby-Premier certificate from Dolby Laboratories in 2006. Mosfilm is especially proud of this achievement. The certification procedure included particularly stringent testing of studio acoustics, compliance with monitoring standards (both for sound and picture), the analysis of equipment stock and quality of its installation, the testing of the accuracy of synchronization systems as well as the examination of the competence of operating personnel.
In December 2007 Mosfilm finished a major modernization of its electronic synthesis, foley and soundtrack recording facilities. This was prompted by the growing demand for creating specific sound effects for new movies. It is not exaggerating to say that Mosfilm is the only modern sound effects facility in Russia. All this is the result of a complex modernization of Mosfilm’s technical capabilities that has been a priority business development direction for the studios for the past 10 years.

Recently the volume of production at Mosfilm has grown significantly as a result of both the boom in the film production business in Russia and Mosfilm’s own expanding and increasingly competitive technical facilities. The Sound Studios barely keeps pace with demand from all the existing projects and the foley studio which is unique in Russia with its technical and acoustic capabilities is constantly fully booked.

Mosfilm also carries out the work for distribution of foreign films in Russia, with dubbing, rerecording and prints all made using Mosfilm’s facilities. Thanks to Mosfilm the Russian audience has seen such popular films as There Will Be Blood, Juno and No Country for Old Men with high quality Russian dubbing and prints. This highlights the achievements of both the studios’ professional specialists and its modern equipment.