Major Projects Victoria is working with the Department of Business and Innovation and Docklands Studios Melbourne (DSM) to deliver a $10 million works program to DSM's facilities.

The Docklands site currently contains five purpose designed state-of-the-art sound stages of varying sizes. Each sound stage has production office facilities, make-up areas, wardrobe departments, green rooms, star dressing rooms and holding bays.

Under this capital works program, Sound Stage 5 will be modified to better accommodate fast turnaround light entertainment and live audience programs to support a multi-segment focus for the Docklands studio.

Other works in the program include:

• improvements to the existing workshop areas to give more flexibility and functionality and to allow for multiple users.

• upgrading the front entrance and widening the incoming lanes, and

• providing the studios with a more reliable income stream by enabling a multi-segment focus with particular emphasis on domestic television production,

• enhancing the skills and capability of the local screen industry, and

• maintaining existing levels of Victorian production and preventing the loss of Victorian productions to interstate studios.

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Timeline

Work will commence on adapting Sound Stage 5 in mid 2012 and is expected to be completed in late 2012.