Posts tagged: El Segundo
The first time you visit our office we will give you a tour. Well, we might offer you water or a soda first*. While you enjoy your cool beverage we will lead you through the offices; onto the green screen stage.
Quick peak into the recording room and through the post-production edit bays.
That’s it, tour’s over! Before we moved in we did extensive work to the building to get it exactly how we wanted it. (See previous posts) The previous occupants installed custom audio/video packages into homes. Sick homes. Definitely not my home. To put it into perspective, our entire post-production area fits into what was previously their sample home theater.
We have two editing bays, a recording room, voice over room, green screen stage, green room, two traditional offices, a conference room, and an area we call “the Big Circle”.
We all choose to sit out at the Big Circle from time to time to escape the confines of our enclosed offices. We also just like each other, so it’s nice to sit at the communal computers and get work done together every once in a while.
Below you will find some before and after photos of the work done at Clear-Media. It took a little over two months in the summer of 2009 to knock-down walls, drywall, paint, build the stage and finally move in. Once we were moved in it took more time to get everything in it’s right place. We still move things around from time to time, but we quite enjoy our little corner of El Segundo.
Once you’ve taken a look at the photos feel free to stop by for a visit and take a look in person. We’re very proud of our office, and the work that we do while we’re in it. We’d love to take you for a real tour and give you that soda* that I was talking about.
And because we spend a good deal of time creating videos here, we documented some of the construction/moving process in a quick two minute video. Complete with Nick busting some dry-wall.
*some people call this pop, not in Southern California, so please refer to it as soda before you visit.
We’ve been in our current office for almost a year now. I want to take you through the evolution of our office(s). Clear-Media has been based in El Segundo since 2007. We were previously at 135 Main Street. Right next to a bar. In the afternoons we could watch the beer truck deliver kegs, and if we were working late enough in the evening we could hear music through the wall.
It was an escrow office before we moved in, hence the partitions and permanent desks. I can’t tell you how many times people came in asking for escrow advice.
For the amount of time we were there it was a great space for us. But whenever anyone had to edit or record music, which was a lot, it could get extremely annoying. Thankfully we have a sweet post-production set-up now with two separate editing bays, VO booth and recording studio, far from the other offices! Take a walk down memory lane with me and check out the original Clear-Media El Segundo office.
