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Constructing and building a film postproduction house .
Our studio is located at Myrens Verksted, Oslo, Norway – a nice and quiet old factory site. In 2023 our lease was discontinued. Our Plans for redecorations had fortunately not yet been set in motion, due to a heavy workflow. A new location was offered us on the same site – building N3 – only 300 meters away from our present location. So a new studio had to be constructed. We changed the name from The Film Factory As to Evil Doghouse Postproduction As.
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The new location had 3 floors 125 m3 each. Google view:
The entrance.
Since we had new film waiting for a final mix, we started with building a new mix-stage. The top floor was the only floor with a suitable layout: One big room 70m2, quite okay for a mid-sized Mix Stage. The other room was 59 m2, which I found to be suitable for technical installations, a kitchen, and an office with a small customers area. This floor is what I will deal with in this thread.
The Top Floor
Here is my first sketch of the floor plan:
This room is where I want to have my mixing theatre. This room is 70 m2 and the height is 4 meters. This is a rendered image based on the floor plan. The person is a standard 180cm man placed for size reference.
This other part will serve as a combined kitchen, customers area and, hopefully, my office. It has a ceiling height of 270 cm, which is quite sufficient.
With plenty of windows, blinds were needed, but my office would get a very nice view:
I started designing in March, using Sweet Home 3D, simply to make it easier to get my ideas through to the landlord for opinions and approvals. He was pleased, and had no objections to my plans.
We started building the top floor in June.
The Mix Stage
Here’s the top floor rendered with the ceiling and some walls made invisible:
We had to get rid of the windows, and insulate the walls , both for outside noice and the neighbours.
Windows are now blocked and walls and floor insulated. Elevated plateaus for spectators are finished.
Things are moving forward. Ceiling with downlights are up, and the casing for the ventilation is done.
We have mounted the projector, and here we are adjusting the placement and angles.
An early rendering of what I wanted my new mix-stage to look like:
With some adjustments it turned out like on this iPhone snapshot:
An early rendering of the workbench and the screen:
And this is what it became:
The choice to have a laminate floor beneath the mixing console wasn’t just about aesthetics – it also facilitated better conditions for chairs with castors, in addition to offering some acoustic benefits. The mix stage was a versatile, thoughtfully designed space, the room looking open and spacious in a rather small room for a mixing stage. It was designed to accommodate a sound technician, a director, a producer, and twelve spectators. Directors and producers have a dedicated workbench with enough room for their laptops, notebooks, water and coffee. They can either work at their bench or sit alongside the technician at the mixing console, ensuring easy collaboration. The mixing console also included a near-field stereo setup, featuring Neumann Berlin speakers plus a 60-inch TV that could be elevated in front of the mixing console. This allowed us to adapt the room to mixing for television and streaming audio.
My workbench as rendered:
The workbench, as it turned out:
At the heart of the Mix Stage there’s a very functional workstation called Nuage. I needed to make a model of it, which took a while. Apart from the rounded sides, this model, like most other models and work prints were all created with SH3D.
The workbench.
The workbench with the Nuage Control Surface:
This is my cinema speaker setup – rendered with a wall and the screen removed. Proper speaker placement and calibration ensured that our listening environment met commercial cinema specifications, providing the best translation to every normal 5.1, and 7.1 configuration. This is an early rendering with the screen frame from our old studio. Later the screen was replaced with a wider one, and the frame extended to fit the distance from wall to wall.
And of course there must be amplifiers and technical equipment to route the sound to the right channels. Normally these things would be hidden from the customers, but I decided to let it all be visible. Some people like to see this sort of things, and sometimes people even ask to see our technical rooms.
Being a composer and a musician, I naturally want to compose film-music in a cinema.
The Kitchen / Office
Building the kItchen / office was poorly documented. The last finish:
The kitchen turned out like this:
As for my office – well, it became a combined office, lunchroom and service / maintenance room. A desk for repairs and soldering cables was of course needed for the entire building process.
In the next thread I will attempt to show how I constructed and built the middle floor.
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Re: Constructing and building a film postproduction house .
Very well done! It really shows how Sweet Home 3D can be helpful in the planning and preparation stage. And of course to show the landlord what you want to do. A plan created with Sweet Home 3D goes a long way!
I really like the Sweet Home 3D design and renderings compared to the real life results. A great presentation, thank you!
At the heart of the Mix Stage there’s a very functional workstation called Nuage. I needed to make a model of it, which took a while. Apart from the rounded sides, this model, like most other models and work prints were all created with SH3D.
I tend to use Blender for anything rounded although in most cases the base is created with Sweet Home 3D. You could have created the rounded part in Sweet Home 3D too: use a wall for the rounding as if the part is standing on its side. Export, import, tilt and you have your rounding. That is what I would have done but I would have edited the exported part in Blender anyway: to remove all invisible and unnecessary faces (reduce size) and to smooth the rounded surface.
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Re: Constructing and building a film postproduction house .
Bravo Xiste. Etonnant travail que vous avez réalisé avec Sweet Home, à tel point que pour certaines de vos images, j'ai du mal à faire la distinction entre une vraie photo et une image SWH3 correspondante.
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Re: Constructing and building a film postproduction house .
Thank you, yes Sweet Home 3D is a perfect program for making quick presentations. Blender is very nice, but making these rounded sides takes 5 mins with extrusion in Photoshop, and I'm lazy! For really perfectly rounded objects, I use Blender or preferably Verto Studio 3d. I always use SH3D for assembly though, and being able to put light in small buttons is a great feature I really appreciate. I just wish there was a way to zoom in a lot more. I end up making my models 5 times normal size, and then downscaling when finished.
