Our blog on all the latest film and TV news from Mount Pleasant Studio in central London covering everything from broadcast and commercials to cameras and post-production…
There’s no denying the fact that technology has come a long, long way in the last few decades, particularly when it comes to film and audio. For many years, film projects big and small were the exclusive purview of major film companies and highly dedicated amateurs, but these days high quality equipment is available to […]
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Film productions often have time constraints and budgets so it’s important to keep within those parameters. Unfortunately, many things can delay filming which is why green screen studio hire is smart. When you have a production in the mix, you might want to hire a sound stage or film studio in London. It can speed […]
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Studio hire in London is practical when you’re filming a movie production. A studio provides a private place to work without interruption and keeps things organised. Of course, you can worry about film studio hire in London. It’s easy to think hiring a studio will be too expensive but that’s not true. You can hire […]
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A sound stage is a large, indoor space that is specifically designed and constructed for the purpose of recording or filming sound. It is usually a large open area with high ceilings and sound-absorbing materials on the walls and floors, these are to minimise echo and reverberation around the room. Sound stages are useful for […]
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It’s Mount Pleasant Studio’s sweet 16th anniversary this month, and we’re very happy with the birthday gift of our most ever bookings in a month – 25 days confirmed so far, with Friday the 30th still available, just in case you need a last minute green screen studio! As well as thanking our clients for […]
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The proliferation of huge studio complexes being announced to cater for the seemingly insatiable demand of superhero movies and episodic TV is a massive vote of confidence in the UK Film and TV industry and its huge and diverse pool of talent in front of and behind the camera as well as in the world of […]
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Mount Pleasant Studio continues to host many live streamed events, awards ceremonies, and presentations, with projects confirmed as far ahead as November. bombora.tv and toasttv.co.uk recently produced MG’s UK Dealer Conference here, with a panel in the studio and contributors participating via Zoom. Watch the 2 minute video below for more details of how it worked and its impact. 76% […]
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We’ve bought a lot of green paint in the last year, as we have been very busy at Mount Pleasant Studios. We’ve hosted a huge range of shoots at our green screen studio in London, including this energeticCartoon Network promo to publicise the arrival of 11-year old musical (mainly drumming) prodigy Nandi Bushell as their […]
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‘Green Screen’ is also known as Chroma Key. Keying is the process of isolating a single colour and brightness and isolating that from the rest of a scene in post-production. Colour keying identifies a particular colour to remove. In the early days of the technology, this tended to be chromakey blue, but chromakey green was […]
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A live streaming studio is a studio that has the ability to record and stream your event live onto a range of platforms, all over the globe. If you are wondering whether live streaming is suitable for your event, our live streaming studio in London have prepared this guide to give you some more info on the […]
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Green screens are the key to creating fantastic background and unbelievable scenes that are extremely realistic. More often than not the universes and worlds we see on film are completely fabricated, and the locations used to shoot these are rather underwhelming in real life. A green screen presents an endless range of possibilities, whatever your […]
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With the increase in live streamed shoots at Mount Pleasant Studio, including awards show and investor presentations, and the now ubiquitous use of remote shooting so clients and agency can view shoots remotely, we decided to up our fibre broadband upload speed to 150MB/sec for added peace of mind. And we’re hanging on to our […]
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It’s our Fifteenth Birthday! In October 2005, we opened our doors to our first clients. Things were very different then; most of our clients were shooting TV commercials on 35mm film. Fast forward 15 years and our clients cover the spectrum from commercials to broadcast TV series, YouTubers with 10 million followers, post houses, advertising […]
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This year’s Pearson BTEC Awards, which in a normal year would take place in Central Hall Westminster, was livestreamed from Mount Pleasant Studio. It combined live presentation by YouTuber – and in my opinion future star TV presenter – Flex UTD with edited footage from five days of Zoom interviews with nominees, teachers and guest presenters, including George Clark […]
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London has long been associated with world-class filmmakers and creative talent and Mount Pleasant Studio is proud to be a small part of that heritage in its role of serving the international production industry since 2005. In the past fifteen years we have hosted a broad range of TV commercials, television series, music videos, corporate […]
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Crew members, production and facilities companies and industry bodies have been busy during Lockdown preparing for safe ways of working as we start to get ready for location and studio shoots to restart. It’s clear that the fewer people on set the better, allowing as much space as possible between those attending shoots, with clients […]
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Hiring a film and TV studio in London can be challenging. You need space, you need all facilities in one place and you need great service for your clients and crew. There aren’t many studios left in Central London, especially if you need a soundproof stage for recording people speaking to camera. Indeed, the soundproofing is so […]
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John Boyega, Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, was shot against green screen at Mount Pleasant Studio for the studio section of “Get Lost in Great Stories”, director Jake Scott’s epic commercial for Vue Cinemas. See the great behind the scenes video. The film encourages people to visit cinemas for an immersive experience, rather than […]
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Sam Mendes and the cast of ‘1917’ interviewed at Mount Pleasant Studio 2019 was Mount Pleasant Studio’s busiest year and 2020 has started with an investment in two Arri Skypanel S60-C LED lights and an OctoDome softbox to add to its wide range of in-house lighting. Los Angeles production company Glass Engine was in London […]
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‘HOW TO BE A VILLAIN’ AT MOUNT PLEASANT Director Helen O’Hanlon and producer Michael Stanish had a busy day shooting 18 puppetry setups for their short film ‘How To Be A Villain’ “a valentine card to eccentric villainy and the classic 1930s films of James Whale and Boris Karloff.” Legend of British puppetry Ronnie Le Drew, the man behind (or more accurately […]
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Called by The Daily Beast “The Most Jaw-Dropping Documentary of the Year”, the Netflix film “Tell Me Who I Am” tells the extraordinary and moving story of identical twins Alex and Marcus Lewis and was filmed over seven days at Mount Pleasant Studio’s central London soundproofed stage. Director Ed Perkins told Salon.com about the process of interviewing the brothers: “It felt […]
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Mount Pleasant’ Photo studio rental for the photographer and filmmaker for facilities and equipment lets you shoot to be seamless from Start to End. We at Mount Pleasant are proud to be able to offer a unique space and high-‐ quality service to our clients. Our state-‐of-‐the-‐art studio, situated in the heart of London’s West […]
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Facebook Ads – Beware! A cautionary tale before you decide to spend money on Facebook ads. We are currently marketing some great office space above our studio in Farringdon/Clerkenwell, available to rent from August (details here, if you’re interested). I created a post for our Facebook page detailing what is available and after a few days […]
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Bringing the magic of the screen to life with Mount Pleasant Studio. Sitting discretely only 10 minutes from Soho, London, this prime spot is the perfect location for film and television production to be shot. Completely soundproofed and fully decked out with camera and lighting equipment, this TV Studio is a fantastic choice whether it is a feature-length […]
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Mount Pleasant Studio is now in its 14th year and we’ve witnessed huge changes from the days when the majority of our clients were commercials production companies shooting TVCs as well as a few broadcast TV promos and corporate videos. That’s now all changed. We still host commercials shoots, but these are just as likely […]
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We thought it would be a good idea to give you a taste of what kind of shoots take place at Mount Pleasant, so here are some projects from the past 18 months. One recent new client was Aardman Animations , who shot this great film for Alzheimer’s Research UK starring Bryan Cranston. Producer Sami Goddard was very happy […]
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It all sounds very mystical, appears like an expression from a H.P Lovecraft novel and still has the ability to make most producers shudder when mentioned. However, the ‘love affair’ I speak of is with Motion Control. We are all aware of the legends and urban tales that go hand in hand with this beast (having been […]
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By Mark Dunn There’s a large cupboard in our studio full of flight cases that are rarely opened. They contain much loved but defunct relics from the analog days of clapper loaders and changing bags instead of DITs and hard drives. Alongside two Mitchell cameras – one with the fabled Jackson Woodburn motor for rocksteady […]
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NSC Creative, based at the National Space Centre in Leicester, shot a well-planned Motion Control project about the MyPORT app at Mount Pleasant Studio late last year. As the complex shoot had to be completed in two days there was no margin for error. Mark Dunn joined several video conferences calls, advising on Green Screen […]
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We love to see ‘making of’ videos of films shot in our studio, so we were delighted to find this one showing Affixxius Films in the the process of creating a CG-heavy film for Millers Oil, which features a futuristic Tron-like race between five cyborgs, one on which is powered by the hero oil. No prizes […]
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By Richard Lewisohn Last week I attended a seminar in the Soho Hotel’s viewing theatre organised by the UK Screen Association during which the future direction of film and TV technology was debated. I attended, from a purely selfish point of view, because Mount Pleasant is the proud owner of a beautiful Arri Alexa camera, and I was […]
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By Richard Lewisohn There was a time when to learn about filmmaking, you’d have to either go to the National Film School, get accepted on an expensive course, subscribe to ‘American Cinematographer’, plough through expensive textbooks full of diagrams and mathematical formulae or… get a lowly job in the film industry. That’s all changed, and […]
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The results are in – ‘Search’ in the world of film and TV production By Richard Lewisohn Three weeks ago I created a survey to try and work out how people looked for or heard about Mount Pleasant Studio, specifically whether they used an online or printed directory or Google to look for studios. A few […]
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by Mark Dunn, Studio Manager What’s an infinity cove? For those who don’t know, it’s a studio space with walls that curve smoothly into the floor so that with careful lighting the illusion that the studio floor continues to infinity can be achieved. They are also referred to as cycloramas or “cycs”. These are normally white, […]
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By Richard Lewisohn When I was a young production assistant, production manager and then producer there was only one sensible way to find a spark, grip, camera, post house or film studio. The Knowledge directory sat open on my desk and was used every day. It was simple and efficient. Every crew member and equipment and […]
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An occasional series highlighting crew members who have have worked at Mount Pleasant Studio. By Mickey Richards I’m a Video Playback Operator (aka. Video Assist or CCTV Op). These are just a few titles listed on a call sheet that describe my job. What the job entails is showing a live link from the camera to HD […]
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There have been a few good ‘making of’ films shot at Mount Pleasant Studios, but a recent one made by Sandra Ciampone for Found Studio is in a different league. Apart from anything else, they don’t often feature tracking shots! Now, here’s a link to the finished commercial, an intense film for Microsoft to launch their next generation ‘Surface’ tablet, shot at MPS. Film Studio Infinity […]
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Facebook is the cause of a lot of time wasting, but it occasionally turns up some film shoot gems, so thanks to director Mark Jenkinson for bringing http://shittyrigs.com to my attention. A brilliant selection of jerry-rigged, occasionally amateurish and sometimes downright dangerous rigs, or perhaps more accurately ‘rigs’. BlackMagic Cinema Camera I appreciate that the BlackMagic Cinema Camera is […]
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Our New Studio Website Launches Our first blog post can only be about our new film and TV studio website. It’s been in the works, courtesy of http://webdesignn4.com for a couple of months and we’re very happy with it. The old one did a sterling job, but it was getting a bit dated, having past its eighth birthday with […]
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