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Winter 2024

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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S 53 headphones just in case. And it worked! Eventually, we ended up with four combined editing suites. Firstly, it's not as boring as working alone. Secondly, the co-working element reduces procrastination time and you can quickly discuss something without breaking away from the task at hand. Of course, we didn't combine work on trailers or action scenes with quieter ambiences—for that, we had individual editing suites. But in most cases, you get used to working in pairs quite quickly. The studio's layout allowed us to efficiently use the part of the building we rented and, when necessary, rent mixing stages, ADR studios, and Foley studios from Mosfilm. Everything was interconnected in one Avid Nexis network, making material transfer as straightforward as possible. After a few projects, we felt the creative reward of our enterprise. The team was eager to evolve and experiment. They also received a salary (in Russia there is no such practice in post. Everyone works as freelancers and receives a fixed payment for completing a task, regardless of the time spent), so they could worry less about job hunting and focus more on their craft. Of course, this didn't eliminate production deadlines, but thanks to our large team, we amassed a considerable amount of equipment and microphones for recording. It also became much easier to organize field recordings. We purchased additional field recording accessories for attaching microphones to vehicles, stands, cases, and other essential equipment to have a lot of possibilities for recording. In doing this, we immediately determined that everyone at the studio should expand their skills as broadly as possible within the profession to Designing storm scream sound for The Duelist 2016 in Atmosfera premixed in studio MP01, Moscow. Atmosfera © Preparing for massive crowd recording in Moscow technical sports park for Streltsov 2020, Ice 2 2020, Union of Salvation 2019. Olga Solovyova, Pavel Doreuli, Pavel Stasenko. Atmosfera ©

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