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A sound stage is a soundproof, hangar
Hangar

A hangar is an enclosed structure to hold aircraft in protective storage. Most hangars are built of metal, but wood and concrete are other materials used....
-like structure, building or room, used for the production of theatrical motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 shows, usually inside a movie studio
Movie studio

A movie studio is, in the established sense of the term, a film distributor. Literally, however, the term denotes a controlled environment for the making of a film....
.

Structures of this type were in use in the motion picture industry before the advent of sound recording. Early stages for silent movies
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
 were built with large skylights until electric light
Electric light

Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. These lights are normally powered by the electric grid, but some run on local electrical generators, and emergency generators serve as backups in hospitals and other locations where a loss of power could...
ing became powerful enough to adequately expose film. With the coming of the talkies
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
 in the late 1920s, it became necessary to enclose the stages to eliminate noise and distractions from outside.






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A sound stage is a soundproof, hangar
Hangar

A hangar is an enclosed structure to hold aircraft in protective storage. Most hangars are built of metal, but wood and concrete are other materials used....
-like structure, building or room, used for the production of theatrical motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 shows, usually inside a movie studio
Movie studio

A movie studio is, in the established sense of the term, a film distributor. Literally, however, the term denotes a controlled environment for the making of a film....
.

Structures of this type were in use in the motion picture industry before the advent of sound recording. Early stages for silent movies
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
 were built with large skylights until electric light
Electric light

Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. These lights are normally powered by the electric grid, but some run on local electrical generators, and emergency generators serve as backups in hospitals and other locations where a loss of power could...
ing became powerful enough to adequately expose film. With the coming of the talkies
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
 in the late 1920s, it became necessary to enclose the stages to eliminate noise and distractions from outside. Buildings without soundproofing are still referred to as silent stages, and can be used where the dialog and other sounds are recorded as a separate operation, usually by the principal actors doing a synchronized voice over a working "cut" of the film or specialized language actors doing a secondary language dubbing
Dubbing (filmmaking)

In film production, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. The term most commonly refers to voices recorded that do not belong to the original actors and speak in a different language from the one in which the actor is speaking....
. A sound stage, unlike a silent stage, requires caution to avoid making noise behind the camera.

An enclosed stage makes it easier for the crew of a production to design and build the sets
Set construction

Set construction is a process by which a scenic design works in collaboration with the theatre director of the production to create the set for a theatrical, film or television production....
 to exact specifications, precise scale and detail. The art director makes an architectural plan and the carpenters build it. After it is painted, the set dresser furnishes it with everything that the set designer, under the direction of the art director, has selected for the interior. The camera can be placed exactly where the director wants it, and achieving the desired lighting is easier because each stage has a metal framework with catwalks and lights suspended from the ceiling. This makes it easier for the cinematographer
Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photography with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting film crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image....
 to have the grip
Grip (job)

In the United States of America and Canada, grips are lighting and rigging technicians in the film and video industries. They make up their own department on a film set and are led by a key grip....
s position each flag or bounce and the lighting technician
Lighting technician

Lighting technicians are involved with rigging and controlling lights for entertainment venues . Toward this end, they work under the direction of the cinematographer and gaffer or the lighting designer and master electrician ....
s to position each light to get exactly the right shot.

Though it is an expensive process, working on a sound stage saves time when setting up. As all the scenes can be filmed on the sets inside the sound stage, it also eliminates having to move the production from location to location.

Soundstage also refers to the depth and richness of an audio recording (usually referring to the playback process). According to audiophile
Audiophile

An audiophile, from Latin audio "I hear" and Greek language philos "loving," is a person, who typically listens to music on high-end audio electronics....
s, the quality of the playback is very much dependent on how one is able to pick out different instruments, voices, vocal parts, etc. exactly where they are located on an imaginary 2D or 3D field. This can enhance not only the listener's involvement in the recording but also their overall perception of the stage.

See also

  • 007 Stage
    007 Stage

    The Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage is one of the largest sound stages in the world. It is located at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, and named after the famous James Bond film producer Albert R....
  • Cinema
    Film

    Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
  • History of cinema
  • Redress
    Redress

    In film, a redress is the redecoration of an existing movie set, so that it can double for another set. This saves the trouble and expenses of constructing a second, new set, though they face the difficulty of doing it so the average viewer does not notice the same set is reused....
  • Sound localization
    Sound localization

    Sound localization is a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in distance and direction or the methods in acoustical engineering to simulate the placement of an auditory cue in a virtual 3D space ....