MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Full service creative edit, design and audio studio, Splice Here (www.splicehere.tv), has added another 2,500 square feet to its facility. The studio, which is housed in a historic 12,000 square-foot building, is looking to grow its design department. The addition includes three new edit suites, as well as multiple design workstations in the building’s basement.
“We worked with an architect and came up with a plan that was counterintuitive to what you might do in decorating a basement,” says Eric Mueller, executive producer at Splice Here.
Instead of choosing light colors and materials to brighten up the space, Splice Here took the opposite approach, staining the concrete walls black, and pouring a new floor and staining it black as well. Inside this “black envelope” are glass cubes that make up the three new suites.
Despite the black interior, the glass-walled suites maximize the sunlight that beams in from windows, which until recently, were boarded up.
“What we wanted to do was create this very calm, neutral environment with the dark so that what really stands out is the work on the flat screens,” says Mueller. “The space feels peaceful and promotes creative thinking and productivity.”
The build-out provides space for a 45 TB SAN and a Discreet Flint system. The studio’s designers have moved over to G5 Macs. Splice Here now features 15 G5s with Final Cut on them. Four of the systems will be used by designers. One is for a DVD specialist and the rest are for editors.