Know More About What New York Sound Stages Can Offer

By George Harris


Designed after New York sound stages, a new Hollywood-style sound stage has opened in Palm Springs. It is the largest in Florida and is equal to facilities in which the movies Incredible Hulk and Jurassic Park III as well as the television shows Two and a Half Men and Desperate Housewives were shot. The G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting is a charter high school and dwelling of the brand new sound stage.

The facility's footprint spans 14,000 square feet and its grid is 35 feet above the floor. It has a smoke evacuation system that clears in two minutes for fire scenes, as well as quick-release drains for rain and water scenes. Its powerful air-conditioning system turns on and off on command. Also it converts into a 1,150-seat theatre for live shows. If that were not enough to lure movie and tv producers to the campus, there is absolutely no charge to rent the facility and also the school offers free labour. That's because the school, the only 1 of this type having a movie studio on campus, gives value to the hands-on experience its students gain by working together with industry experts. It sets them head and shoulders above other children because they have real-world training. The studio won't accommodate every moviemaker, though, given that productions and guests' conduct must be suitable for a school environment.

The brand new facility is a great improvement over the school's previous sound stage, which wasn't air-conditioned or sound-proof. It will bring in bigger productions in terms of dollars, size as well as capacity. That plays into the school's other mission of building up the local film industry so that it can employ its graduate students. The 1st production to be filmed at the brand new sound stage was a music video. The video was backed up by the school's foundation, which is raising funds to get more productions to the school. Future clients are car commercial and Recreating a Legend, a brand new television reality show. There is nothing better in South Florida. There is nothing like it that is built to be what it is, not something retrofitted. It's just the the best.

Few sound stages are being constructed in today's economic climate. G-Star's facility as well as recently passed state tax incentives for moviemakers should give Palm Beach County an advantage in wooing film business. However, Palm Beach County is a long way behind film hubs including L. A. and The Big Apple or even lesser magnets with lower costs and much better tax incentives. The region lacks the facilities, work force as well as variety of locales to entice big-budget filmmakers. G-Star's graduates usually don't remain in Palm Beach County because there are not adequate jobs there.

New York sound stages were adopted by most local production companies and generate their money on infomercials, commercials as well as corporate videos. A few consider G-Star's $5 million facility unfair competition because it is paid for with citizen money and does not charge filmmakers. The very last huge sound stage to attempt to succeed in Palm Beach County was Palm Beach Ocean Studios in West Palm Beach. G-Star's facility will probably attract independent moviemakers who do not have a lot of money. Nevertheless, it's a start. It is best for the children, and it will help bring a few movies there that might not have come there otherwise.




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