SCAD Film Studios Expands Backlot With New Soundstages, More Than 50 Backlot Facades — SkimNews
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- SCAD Film Studios completed its expansion of a 16-acre complex in Savannah, Georgia, adding new professional soundstages and more than 50 backlot facades with practical interiors — described as the largest university film studio complex in the world.
- The Hollywood-style backlot spans brownstones, storefronts, restaurants, urban alleyways, a subway entrance and a suburban neighborhood, with practical interiors that let filmmakers move between exterior and interior scenes.
- SCAD Film Studios added two purpose-built professional soundstages of nearly 9,000 square feet in the final phase, alongside a 17,000-square-foot production design and costume design building.
- Leslie Odom, Jr., who recently joined SCAD as an artist-in-residence alongside Nicolette Robinson, will develop and rehearse his national holiday tour on one of the new soundstages, with students building sets for the Nov. 27-Dec. 22 run.
- American Idol is using SCAD Film Studios facilities, demonstrating the complex's capacity for major television productions while creating student opportunities across acting, on-camera performance, production design and behind-the-scenes work.
- Andra Reeve-Rabb, dean of the SCAD School of Film and Acting and executive director of SCAD Casting, said SCAD has built a place where "a major production can come to Savannah and find everything it needs — professional soundstages, an extraordinary backlot, cutting-edge technology and talented emerging artists."
- Atlanta complements the Savannah buildout, where SCAD Film Studios also includes an additional LED volume stage, broadcast studios and editing facilities.
Why it matters: For SCAD students in acting, production design and costume design, the Savannah expansion puts professional production on campus in concrete terms: they build sets for Leslie Odom, Jr.'s Nov. 27-Dec. 22 tour and work on "American Idol" productions, on a 16-acre site described as the world's largest university film studio complex.
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