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A ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled for Meddin Studios on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 2 PM at 2333 Louisville Road, Savannah, Georgia 31415

Meddin Studios is located inside the historic Meddin Brothers meat packing facility built in 1917, located at 2333 Louisville Road, Savannah, GA 31415. This 22,000 square foot building is located on 2.5 acres, three miles from downtown Savannah, Georgia.

An outlet for advanced digital media technology, this innovative facility is the brainchild of Jon Foster and Nick Gant. Jon and Nick recognized the need to provide such a facility through market research and 30 years of combined experience in the film and television industry. Nick has worked in a wide range of industry roles, including Sr. Designer and Art Director for a Fortune 400 company, broadcast designer, interactive designer and producer, director, editor, animator, aerial cinematographer and military combat photographer. Jon brings expertise in technical service and design, developed through years of building and integrating large systems inside post production and production facilities across the southeast. Together, Foster and Gant have primed Meddin Studios to be a premier facility that will foster innovation in digital film and video production and distribution. They’ve developed, and currently have in place, an experienced management team to carry out the mission of the company: Staci Donegan, Location Manager/Producer; Jason Osterday, Production Director (Camera/Audio); Andrew Riggs, Production Director (Grip/Lighting) and Steve Smith, Director of Sales/Account Executive.

At full operating capacity, the facility will be outfitted with four 2,500 square foot sound stages (2 of which can be combined for a single 5000 sq. ft sound stage), all with independent entrances and green rooms, full lighting grids, compressed air, water and natural gas provisions; a full post production facility that consists of 3 complete editing suites, 1 color correction/edit suite, a fully equipped 1,600 square foot Pro Tools audio suite that includes a multi-purpose recording booth that can facilitate full ADR and foley recording capabilities (with an ultimate goal of obtaining THX and 5.1 Dolby certification); 2,200 square feet dedicated to camera rental; and over 1,800 square feet dedicated to equipment rental. It will also have a 2,000 square foot lobby, a kitchen and multiple restrooms throughout the building. The facility will connect in a 1,700 square foot, centrally located machine room to handle video and audio signal distribution in the facility, digital asset management, backup and archive, compression and transcoding, deliverables and digital, accelerated file distribution. Meddin Studio’s inventory will also include an extensive line of camera, grip and lighting equipment. This will include two and three ton grip trucks, a motion capture remote head, 24’ telescoping camera crane, full Steadicam packages, camera car, and wireless video / follow focus packages. Meddin Studios is also finalizing plans for expansion on this property for future growth.

One of Meddin Studios’ unique offerings is asset management; the organization, conversion and preservation of content in a digital format which provides numerous advantages for an individual or organization. Aging film and tape formats, deteriorating old photos and new digital media formats are just a few of the types of assets for which Meddin Studios can develop and implement a preservation plan. At its simplest, it is a visual, searchable catalog of media from years past, as well as the present and future. From a more complex standpoint, it could mean repurposing existing assets to generate new revenue streams, or potentially saving a corporation or municipality from a liability it knew nothing about, simply because it was buried away in a tape library that had not been accessed in years.

Meddin Studios fills an infrastructure void locally, regionally and nationally for the industries it services. With an aggressive state tax credit program already in place for film, television and gaming production in Georgia, Meddin Studios will feed the already explosive growth of this industry and the businesses that support it. The economic impact will be tremendous, while invigorating the emerging west end of Savannah with the development of a creative professional campus.

For additional information about Meddin Studios, contact Staci Donegan at s.donegan@meddinstudios.com.