Open letter on behalf of the UK Post-Production Sound Community On the 21st August 2023, the Post-Sound subcommittee of the Post Production & Facilities Branch sent an open letter to 63 Post Production Facilities in the UK, highlighting the issues the post-production sound community experience working in television. The majority of post-sound freelancers are not covered under the   PACT/ BECTU Scripted TV Agreement . This is because of the common practice of “third party hiri

Around 100 of the leading post professionals in the UK have joined the UK Post Sound Collective, which aims to provide practical industry advice for anyone in the UK who identifies as a woman, is trans or non-binary and/or is Black or from an ethnic minority and is interested in a career in Sound Editing or Sound Mixing for TV and Feature Films. If anyone out there knows anyone who’d benefit from the scheme, or equally is connected to a professional who may want to be added t

We’re currently running two surveys for editorial, Picture and Sound. The aim is to gain better understanding of the make up of the Post-Production industry in the UK. Whilst we know there’s a lot of work to be done, the data we hope to gain from these surveys will help us target our efforts to improve inclusion throughout our Post-Production industry. Please take the time to fill in the surveys, and pass on to your peers and colleagues.  Sound Survey Picture Survey You can f

The ability to work remotely during the sound editorial process is fundamentally dependant upon the stance of the production company with regards security, the level of which is often determined by the production’s budget.  Some companies simply would not allow picture files to be sent anywhere other than to facilities with a proven security trail, such as the studios or post-houses who all have security passes per corridor, cameras and safes to put drives in.  Production com

On the 31st of July 2018 a meeting for Post Production Sound workers convened at a Sound Social event at Jigsaw in Golden Square. Attendance was high with around eighty men and women from a variety of disciplines, both freelance and facility employees, within Post Production. Paul Evans from Bectu gave a presentation explaining the existing PACT agreements to show what current regulations exist and what other areas of film production have negotiated with the help of the Union