Austin.com Studios Primer

Steve Muccini writes for Austin.com, What’s going on behind the scenes of, well, behind the scenes“Back in my day, we were real filmmakers. We’d shoot out at Austin Studios in a 103° heatwave. We didn’t need air conditioning; when someone passed out we would slide open the 100-foot doors and let in a breeze. Soundproofing? Poppycock! We’ll just clean it up in post. Because we were real filmmakers.

OK, so maybe this scenario wasn’t so far in the past, but the good news is that it is about to change. Back in 2006, the people of Austin felt a dose of the filmmakers’ pain and voted-in Proposition 4, a $5 million bond to improve the 20-acre production facility, Austin Studios. This is the 100,000-square-feet worth of former airplane hangars out at the old Robert Mueller Airport, where producers of films, commercials, and music videos come to shoot their projects. The goal of the bond? Provide people who shoot in Austin Studios a cool, quiet, and safe place to make their films. That’s not too much to ask, is it?”

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