Y-40® Studios
The underwater studio where everything is possible!
Y-40® Studios is an underwater space that has the dimensions of a cinematographic set, in which photo shootings, videos, events and advertising campaigns can be realized. Our group of consultants and operators will support your own creative team in order to shape together your idea in Y-40® or at the sea.
Y-40® Studios is filled with crystal clear thermal water, with a constant temperature of 33°C (91°F). This trait gives the opportunity to work in immersion for several hours, or even days, in a comfortable environment for talents and divers.
The underwater architecture is provided with platforms at different levels of depth, from -1.3 metre (-1.4yd) to -42 metres (-46yd) deep. The broad underwater space allows to drop in the water set designs and backdrops of big dimensions, so that shootings and videos can be made with a depth of focus that reaches up to 20 metres (22yd).
Pool deck and celeing can be equipped with windups, trusses, lights and backdrops of any kind, thanks to the beams with carriages and hoists that can lift heavy weights, up to a ton, down to the bottom of the pool.
The pool deck is provided with wide, 3 metre (3.3yd) high windows that can be obscured, choosing, even during daylight, the best graduation of natural or artificial lighting for your project.
Y-40® Studios opens all year long, day and night.
Exclusive rental is available either for the entire Y-40® pool or for parts of it, splitting the underwater or pool deck space to limit the access for unauthorized people.
Direction, production and clients can follow the underwater job directly from the pool deck, through the support of monitors and audio connection, which allows bidirectional communication between surface and underwater operators. It is also possible to play music thanks to the underwater sound system, audible everywhere in the pool by the talents.
Y-40® Team is made up of professional scuba and freediving instructors and safeties, who are able to support talents with no underwater experience, through lessons that are specifically dedicated to the realization of underwater scenes.
References of photographers, videomakers, DoP and underwater directors are available, with their own equipment or with the necessary skills to use any kind of camera, when requested.
Y-40® can also propose talents who already have confidence in the water, in case they have not already been chosen by the production.
Halls and rooms of different dimensions are available, in the pool deck and on the ground floor, in order to arrange offices for production, make-up and hairdressing, dressmaking or traditional recording studios.
Y-40® supports the production upon request, working closely throughout all stages of research, proposal and provision of truss, lighting, backdrops, props, workforce, tailors, make-up, hairdressers, talents, photographers, videomakers, DJs, musicians.
Y-40® is located inside the park of the Hotel Terme Millepini, in which 100 hotel rooms can provide accommodation with a price agreement.
The Hotel restaurant guarantees lunch and dinner, also with previously agreed menus, while our Y-40® bar-bistrot can provide craft service at any time of the day and the night.
Technical features:
Dimensions:
POOL:
Pool volume in thermal water: 4.300m³ (5624yd³)
Pool area: 21m x 18m (23yd x 20yd)
Platforms at different depths:
-1,3m (-1.4yd) deep 18m x 5m (19.7yd x 5.5yd) wide
-5m (-5.5yd) deep, 5m x 4m (5.5yd x 4.4yd) wide
-6m (-6.5yd) deep, 5m x 4m (5.5yd x 4.4yd) wide
-8m (-8.7yd) deep, 5m x 4m (5.5yd x 4.4yd) wide
-10m (-11yd) deep, 14m x 9m (15.3yd x 9.8yd) wide deep platform at wider amplitudes
-12m (-13.1yd) deep, 6m x 4m (6.5yd x 4.4yd) wide
-15m (-16.4yd) deep, 7m x 7m (7.6yd x 7.6yd) wide
-42,15m (-46yd) deep cylinder with a diameter of 6m (6.5yd)
60 metres (65.6yd) long underwater caves path, from -8m (-8.7yd) to – 10m (-11yd) deep;
Water at a temperature of 32-34°C (90-93°F), accessible in every season;
Floating and transparent underwater tunnel with a length of 13m (14.2yd) from -2,5 to -5 metres (-2.7 to -5.5yd) of depth
Glass window over the entire southeast wall of over 30 metres (32.8yd)
CEILING:
Distance from the water surface to the pool deck: 5 metres (5.5yd)
2 Beams of about 30 metres (32.8yd) in the ceiling, on which trusses or equipment with the capacity of 1 t/m can be assembled, in these areas: over the centre of the 5 (5.5), 8 (8.7), 6 (6.5) metres (yards) deep platforms over the 10 metres (11yd) platform and the centre of the 42 metres cylinder (46yd)
POOL DECK:
Distance between the pool and the wall from 3,5 to 5 metres (3.8 to 5.5yd)
A door link the pool deck to the road for unload and upload equipment and for the eventual ambulance arrival
ELECTRICITY:
2 electrical outlet for 32 ampere 380 volt
Outlets for 220 volt
SOUND:
Sound system available both underwater and on the pool deck
Equipment:
Hooks along the interior walls of the pool for set designs, lighting, special effects (20 cm / 0.22yd below the water surface and on all platforms)
Raft to carry materials to the pool centre
Scuba equipment available on the pool deck
13 metres (14.2yd) long tunnel that passes through the pool, in which lighting and special effects can be placed, 4 windows (3m x 1,6m / 3.3yd x 1.75yd) on one side and 5 windows (1m x 1,6m / 1.1yd x 1.75yd) on another at -4 metres (4.4yd) of depth, on which lighting and special effects can be placed
Total darkness in the pool, covering about 40 metres (44yd) of glass doors and windows on the entire pool deck
4 halls for backstage, assembly, make-up, installation, storage, etc
Y-40® services: linked thermal Hotel / Bar-bistrot / WiFi / wide Parking lot
Services:
Consulting/Support in the scene to be shot underwater
Lighting and projections system service
Provision and installation of underwater and surface lighting
Audio and screen system service
Led lighting system
Underwater black backdrop (already here)
Realization and installation of underwater and surface white backdrops
Installation of underwater and surface blue or green screen backdrop
Special effects
Video operators and scuba photographers
Underwater DoP
Scuba and freediving lessons to prepare the talents for posing or acting in the water
Safety in the water for talents SCUBA or freediving
Y-40® Staff
Models and extras, scuba divers or freedivers
Talents
Freediving champions
