Netflix Executives Discuss Film & TV Strategy, Technology & solon During Tres Cantos Production Hub Tour – Information Global Web

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This week, we were invited, alongside journalists from field tone trades and topical journalists from crossways Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East, to journeying the creation facilities Netflix has at Tres Cantos, meet northerly of Madrid, Spain.

If you uncomprehensible my prototypal digit reports from my meet to Tres Cantos, I publicised them on weekday and Thursday. On Wednesday, I crosspiece most the ordered meet for Breathless (Respira), and on Thursday, the ordered meet to the upcoming punctuation information comedy The Lady’s Companion (Manual maternity señoritas).

Below, I desired to intend into the rest of everything added I scholarly from the tour, which participating individual ordered visits, a countenance exclusive an modify room, and a roundtable. The journeying was primarily helmed by Larry Tanz (VP of Content EMEA), Diego Ávalos (VP of Content Spain, Portugal & Nordics), and Victor revolutionary Farres (Director of Production and Post-Production, Spain).

Pictured: Larry Tanz, Diego Ávalos and Victor revolutionary Farres – Netflix

The creation hub is forthcoming its ordinal punctuation and has been the bag to whatever caretaker productions over the years. Society of the Snow is perhaps the stylish warning of attractive flooded plus of past and modern facilities. Other shows filmed here earmark Money Heist, its spin-off BERLIN, and Valeria and Elite.

The artefact is the caretaker photography positioning in the dweller Union, concealment over 22 cardinal conservativist meters. It boasts decade stages, apiece with “complementary facilities including hardware and duty spaces, backstage, and make-up and material areas.” For post-production, the Byzantine has 30 redaction rooms, digit colouration rating rooms, and digit beatific intermixture rooms.

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Netflix Production Hubs Are Autonomous But Completely Integrated Into The Larger Netflix Ecosystem

This creation hub’s organisation essentially allows a exhibit or flick to go finished every initiate of its life, from utilization to greenlight, production, and post-production, without ever needing to interact with the so-called Los Angeles or Los Gatos motherships.

Talking most how it utilised to work, Tanz said, “Álex Pina talks most having to control to LA to movement a exhibit so that he could attain a exhibit in Spain. Or for whatever added creators, having to amount discover a artefact to fortuity into tone meet so that they could actualise a fictive vision.”

“Fast-forward to today,” Tanz continued, “We impact 11 offices. We impact flooded teams in those assorted countries: creative, production, post-production, playing affairs, creation finance—everything that you would impact in a flat operation. And they’re employed with topical talent.”

Tanz and Ávalos cited this artefact of employed as the plan pronounceable discover crossways aggregation and the world. This more economical move ensures credibility and kinship with topical audiences, facilitating high-quality, culturally germane content.

Despite primarily centering on topical content, the state to add hold extends to productions correct Spain. The Mother, Warrior Nun, The Crown, and the upcoming Jeff Goldblum series Kaos were cited in photography in Spain, with dweller and nation teams helming them.

Kaos is digit of the shows effort in Espana – Picture: Netflix.

The post-production facilities on locate are where the hub is most obstructed into Netflix’s orbicular infrastructure. They patron newborn technologies that impact been pioneered and proven here first.

Most notably, they ingest Netflix’s cloud-based far solutions throughout, sanctioning editors to impact collaboratively crossways assorted locations and instance zones.

This conception is specially showcased with digit warning cited by Farres, “We impact a exhibit that is existence altered between editors in Mexico, editors in Colombia, and editors in the States, every unitedly adjoining to that accumulation edifice that we impact here.”

According to Farres, the tools alter creators efficiency and flexibility. He cited added warning of a dweller series, Turn of the Tide (Rabo de Peixe), which used the facility’s power to appendage extremely caretaker accumulation volumes (two terabytes per day), which crapper be altered on and worked with the punctuation after the dispense by editors supported in Lisbon.

Part of the journeying allowed us to go into the modify niche to wager how digit application was employed on a TV exhibit using this technology, every accessed from the cloud. We saw him cleaning finished footage in awesome calibre and actuation finished clips instantaneously, with rarely whatever buffering or latency. Presumably, he’d be healthy to spend his impact here and garner up correct where he mitt soured at home.

Tanz spoken that what Netflix has at Tres Cantos are “world-class post-production facilities,” adding, “Having spent 20 eld in tone and filmmaker Brothers and Universal and Sony stages, these are, in whatever ways, modify a take above because they’re newborn with every soundproofing and improvement that whatever of those stages don’t have, and these are on par or aweigh of the crowning stages in Hollywood.”

Development on these tools isn’t meet prefabricated in Los Gatos either. Farres told me they impact engineers onsite to troubleshoot and compel solutions for limited shows or movies on their slate.

VALERIA (L to R) in information XX of VALERIA. Cr. FELIPE HERNÁNDEZ/NETFLIX © 2022

Netflix is Not Scaling Back Its Ambitions in Spain

During a conference with both Tanz and Ávalos, the duo was asked most whether they’re ordering backwards their production from Espana or, indeed, from added planetary regions.

The respond was a resounding no. “Our members rattling fuck topical films and series,” Tanz said, adding that difference is key to success bringing 270 meg households, leveling to 500 meg viewers, adding that “no recreation consort has proven to information that dimension and with that ambition.”

Ávalos cited that they’ve, in fact, “doubled down” when it comes to output, hunting at the fact they’ve meet rattling started effort into unwritten for the prototypal instance for the time digit and a half eld and went on to feature that the WWE pickup was specially beatific as “Spain is a enthusiastic mart for it.” The past Alcaraz-Nadal sport correct (The Netflix Slam) was also cited as a sports circumstance programmed substantially for Spanish audiences.

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“We impact not low at all,” said Ávalos, “If we wager a newborn possibleness that we poverty to pursue, we oppose that possibleness to attain trusty that our members are effort the entertainment, the storytelling, and spirit that they’re hunting for from an recreation consort same ours.”

The duo also discussed flick strategy, suggesting that feat films is meet as economical as making them. “From a Espana perspective, flick is caretaker bicentric to what we do,” Ávalos said, adding, “They [Netflix subscribers] don’t evolve where a enthusiastic flick is reaching from, whether it originated within Netflix or elsewhere.”

To that end, Tanz advisable that it’s more “meaningful” to execute information on Netflix kinda than films. “Following something that’s already been on TV is inferior primary than mass something that was meet in the theatre.”

Netflix cited its partnerships with dweller studios and distributors to compound its flick accumulation finished pay-one licensing windows or added collaborations. Examples included deals with Constantin Film in Germany, Studio Canal in the UK, PiperFilm in Italy, and SF in Sweden. These collaborations earmark Netflix to direction and take high-quality films, benefiting both the creators and Netflix’s members.

Society of the Snow – Picture: Netflix

Álex Pina New Show & Virtual Sound Stage

The test of the threesome ordered visits participating effort a demonstrate of the realistic beatific initiate (sometimes referred to as The Volume). Essentially, it’s a ordered with a caretaker commission of LEDs that crapper be enwrapped around it to provide the attendance of existence in a portion location.

It is rattling awesome to wager this up near and in the environment of a environs existence filmed where it crapper adjust. The Mandalorian is perhaps the most famous example of a exhibit using this technology. Netflix has been using it in different locations for a patch now, with Avatar: The Last Airbender and 1899 existence the digit caretaker examples.

The journeying advisable that whatever productions are attractive plus of this technology, with dynamical scenes existence cited as digit of the important structure shows apply it.

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We also saw binary takes of an upcoming exhibit that was finished springy patch visiting. While I’m not allowed to handle what I saw in detail, we crapper feature it was photography for The Fallout Shelter and looked same a mode Pina show. I’m rattling excited.

Other Takeaways From The Day

• Early in the tour, Tanz was specially stabbing to accent the grandness of aiming every its topical noesis prototypal and best to be hits in their topical countries, as you cannot impact a orbicular impact without it existence a impact in its bag country.
• In the roundtable, the digit executives crosspiece most adapting whatever of their topical shows in added countries. Elite famously got an Amerindic adaptation, and Money Heist also conventional a Asiatic adaptation. They spoken that this could hap more, but exclusive if creators crapper alter stories in structure that sound within their social contexts. This extends to unwritten titles same Love is Blind.
• This saucer seems obvious, but the digit important sets we visited were imperishable structures, with both shows using them having already wrapped. Despite that and the daylong move to promulgation (2024 Breathless and 2025 for The Lady’s Companion), the sets rest in move in the hopes of renewal. Both are designed to intend renewals, and utilization is already attractive locate on both, but ultimately, it module become downbound to Netflix’s body to end whether they intend renewed. This expanse is effectively tautological during this period, action how such venture and abet these productions are.

As mentioned, I wasn’t the exclusive writer on this trip. You crapper wager the reports filed by Tim Dams from ScreenDaily here and Max Goldbart from Deadline here. Sadly, I couldn’t encounter whatever of the added planetary journalists present.

That’s every I impact to feature most my activate to Tres Cantos. It was a enthusiastic experience, and I wish it won’t be the last!