This interview is part of a new CineD series celebrating women in the film and television industry. Read our last piece, where we caught up with cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry here. Today, we talk to Lesley Weir of Serious Facilities about how to become a successful post-producer. Before becoming a post-producer at Glasgow’s Serious Facilities, Lesley Weir worked on the production side for Scottish television broadcaster STV. Weir at work. This was in the early 90s. “Scottish television was very young, with lots of local programming,” Weir remembers. “You could be in the newsroom one day and out on a sports pitch or in the hills the next. There was freedom. It wasn’t structured in the way that other broadcasters like the BBC might be.” Eventually, Weir left STV and began working in post, helping to grow Serious from a small shop with six employees to a full-service facility with 21 offline suites, four online suites, four audio dubbing suites, a graphics department, a data department, Baselight Digital Telecine, film cutting rooms, an enormous machine room and more (at one point, even a bathroom was converted to a suite for extra space!). Below, she tells us her thoughts on the Scottish television industry and her secrets to becoming successful as a post-producer. One of the suites at Serious. Why did you go from production to post? Lesley Weir (L.W.): I just loved it. I loved that when you got into post, everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. You had...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 28 April, 2021