testing waters for new studio in San Francisco

[Christopher Wright]

Ask the people who used to work at the Orphanage about the market in San Francisco.

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[Ron Lindeboom]

[Christopher Wright] “Ask the people who used to work at the Orphanage about the market in San Francisco.”

Translation? The Orphange is now out of business and was one of the premier studios in San Francisco. Some would argue THE premier studio in San Francisco. (I wouldn’t argue against them.)

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Adrian Smith]

Yes it was sad news to hear of The Orphanages demise. Was it purely financial or were other factors at play?

My planned enterprise is a lot more modest and is born of my own frustration at find affordable and quiet insert/interview stages in or around San Francisco that you can actually park at. So my mantra would quiet, affordable. accessible (and yes with decent gear).

So before I embark much further on this plot I’m trying to get some feedback as to whether this would fly and suggestions as to what services I could additionally provide to keep it the modest and affordable bracket.

[Christopher Wright]

That is exactly my point Ron!
The competition was/is very brutal in San Fran!

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[David Roth weiss]

[Christopher Wright] “The competition was/is very brutal in San Fran! “

Christopher,

Where isn’t the competition brutal nowadays?

David

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[Christopher Wright]

the southernmost tip of Chile….

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[Adrian Smith]

Chaps, methinks you ain’t comparing apples to apples (as they taught me in divinity school). I’m not about to set up an animation company or any kind of production company (other than the ongoing work I already do for the dear old Beeb – let the British license payer pay say I).

My venture would be to set up a modest building housing a modest insert stage for modest interviews like those I already do for the BBC, the New York Times, etc. I have a hard time finding affordable space at a moments notice and when I do it is often noisy, hard to get to or has terrible acoustics. So, my thinking goes… if I’m having hard time finding suitable studio space as an independent but very busy TV journalist…. surely there are others too in this predicament.

So no, I don’t want to compete with Industrial Light and Magic. I was thinking more along the lines of Click and Clack The Tappet Brothers Shoot a Video in their garage (but boy have they made it nice). The tea’s good too (and extra revenue and $1.50 a cup).

[David Roth weiss]

I’ll bet it’s tough there too. August Pinochet’s relatives probably still run the whole damned place, and they’ll be expanding their studio to San Fran. any day now.

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[Adrian Smith]

Actually I have already tapped the Pinochet clan as investors. They are very keen on cooking shows apparently.

[Christopher Wright]

Well for one thing, affordable and good, quiet neighborhood are two mutually exclusive things in SF.
My honest thinking is that you would have to pay so much for a decent space that it would be very hard to recoup your investment/monthly rent. Have you already done a search of the post and creative community to see what already exists and what the rates are?? That is where I would start.

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