All Freelancers articles – Page 45
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NewsMatchlight gets Scottish funding
Glasgow-based indie Matchlight will receive a £250,000 cash injection over three years from Scottish Enterprise to further support local programme making.
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NewsSkillset's biggest grant to train "next gen" leaders
Skillset has made its biggest ever training grant to help a creative leaders develop the skills to face TV’s most pressing issues, such as the emergence of multiplatform delivery and falling production budgets.
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NewsThe VFX Co opens post boutique
Specialist camera-effects house The Visual Effects Company will move into post-production this week when it opens a boutique facility in central London.
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FeaturesIBC: Resellers
With IBC looming, Andy Stout looks at the various routes that manufacturers in different sectors take when it comes to getting their products to market.
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Lumiere Studios moves into motion graphics
Lumiere Studios is adding broadcast design and motion graphics to its 3D animation and visual effects services, recruiting Beautiful TV co-founder Claire Plaskow as head of production.
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NewsBreathe rebrands and expands
Breathe Post Production has been renamed Air Post Production as it prepares to launch its third facility.
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CommentVideo journalists: Flying solo
Professional news gatherers are increasingly going it alone, meaning we have more unique voices but a need to replace the financial security previously provided by big production teams, writes Boaz Eshtai.
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NewsSlumdog supervisor starts Soho VFX outfit
The visual effects supervisor on Slumdog Millionaire has teamed up with a former head of imaging from Mill Film to start a Soho VFX company.
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Features
Surviving the downturn: Impact on indies’ businesses
Only 1% of respondents to the survey said their businesses had not been affected at all by the downturn.
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CommentShowcomotion: Dunkirk spirit
At the Showcomotion children’s media conference in Sheffield, Katherine Rushton finds a cash-strapped industry adopting a Dunkirk spirit and a buzz around the BBC’s move north.
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CommentCan you cope with cuts?
How many shows, like The Bill, are rising to the challenge of looking good for less?
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NewsThe Bill halves its staff and changes its tune
The Bill’s iconic theme tune will be scrapped as part of its 9pm relaunch, which will also see the ITV1 show’s 180-strong production team halved.
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Comment
ITV clarification about on-demand strategy
I was more than a little surprised to read in Broadcast that not only is ITV planning “to levy small charges for on-demand content” but that our plans are so far advanced that the service would “include flagship shows such as Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor” and the ...
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CommentNew crop of TV workers under pressure
How is the TV industry training new entrants to equip them to deal with the demands of production, asks Elsa Sharp.
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CommentBlog: Breaking into TV
It’s harder than ever to break into TV and the current economic downturn means that even the industry’s high fliers are touting for work. Elsa Sharp appraises the situation.
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BBC Nations and Regions: Life outside London calling
The BBC's nations and regions strategy aims to change the DNA of UK broadcasting. As the deadline looms for managers to commit to Salford, it's crunch time, says Katherine Rushton.
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North East decline drives staff exodus
A third of production staff in the north east of England have left the region to find work over the past 18 months, according to new figures from development agency Northern Film and Media.