Location Sound Services

Here is how this works in practice. We give complete location sound services with a recordist-led department crewed from our Belgrade base. Our recordists, boom operators and sound assistants have captured production sound for global features and series for more than a decade, running multi-channel recorders, radio mics and boom coverage that gives edit clean, well-ordered tracks. On the tech scout we check each location for traffic, aircraft, power packs and natural noise, then plan mic placement, timecode sync and the order of coverage with the camera and electrical departments.

Here is the short of it. We manage wild tracks, room tone and ADR cue notes so the post-prod team has everything it needs, and we deliver sound reports alongside the media. Battery-powered sound carts keep dialogue scenes free of power packs hum. Our crew adapts fast between controlled interiors and unpredictable exteriors. Recorders, microphones and radio systems come through our Belgrade base, with pro kit supplemented from the wider region for very large or multi-unit shoots.

Here is the breakdown. Serbia gives location sound teams a wide spread of environments within easy reach of the capital. Belgrade gives stone-walled period interiors, the atmospheric old town. The lanes of the bohemian Skadarlija quarter and the hard acoustics of socialist-modernist New Belgrade, while the city's busy streets demand careful planning for traffic and crowd noise. Beyond it, the mountains of Tara, Zlatibor and Kopaonik. The plains of Vojvodina and the quiet Djerdap gorge give cleaner natural backgrounds for exterior dialogue.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The temperate inland climate brings four distinct seasons, so our recordists plan for wind, summer insect noise and the dampened acoustics of snow. RF range for radio mics is covered by RATEL. We operate within those rules, while ATA carnets cover short-term import of any pro recording kit a production brings. English is widely spoken across the local crew base. The cash rebates through the Film in Serbia programme keeps a full Serbian sound department cost-good.