Latest – Page 456
-
NewsFracture gets Asbo Fever
Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...
-
News
Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD
Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...
-
News
St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster
St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...
-
News
DGP hires TMR trio
DVD and post facility DGP has recruited a trio of staff from TMR. Claire Leach, formerly a producer at TMR DVD, has joined the production department. Leach will manage the audio and subtitling for DGP's ongoing work for HBO DVD.
-
News
Negatives service
Film laboratory and digital post-production specialist Soho Images has launched a negative cutting service. The new department is being headed by Danny Coulson with three full-time staff.
-
News
Cohen moves
Soho post house The Facility has taken on BBC Resources indie post producer Rich Cohen to head its new business department. During Cohen's five years at the BBC, he oversaw the migration of Red Bee Media post-production facilities to the Broadcast Centre. More recently as an indie post producer, Cohen ...
-
News
Smalls Festival
A festival showcasing short films for mobile phones and MP3 players is set to launch next month. Branding agency Devilfish is launching The Smalls in conjunction with the London Design Festival and online magazine
-
News
Editworks buys kit
Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.
-
-
NewsWhat's a VoD show worth?
How much will a downloaded episode of Green Wingor The F Wordbe worth to consumers? Less than the cost of a music video on iTunes, according to Channel 4.
-
NewsSony offers new releases to UK VoD customers
Sony Pictures Television International has become the latest major producer to enter the burgeoning UK video-on-demand market.
-
NewsThe Mill searches for new investors
Soho post production company The Mill has confirmed it is looking for new investors with a possibility of floating on the stock exchange.
-
News
Australian mobile deal for The Office and Little Britain
BBC Worldwide has struck a deal with Vodafone to offer downloadable clips from such series as The Office, Little Britainand Doctor Whoto mobile phone users in New Zealand and Australia.
-
NewsID plans new media push
ID Distribution is forecasting turnover to hit£10m for the current financial year and is gearing up for a push into new media as it prepares to celebrate its second anniversary at Mipcom.
-
NewsJames Bond set ruined in Pinewood Studios fire
The James Bond set at Pinewood Studios has been destroyed in a fire that broke out yesterday morning, the third to hit the studios in 22 years.
-
NewsPost production firms hit by Soho power cut
Soho post production houses have been bracing themselves for further disruption this afternoon following yesterday's power cuts in the area.
-
News
Ventuz 3D launch
3D graphics software developer Ventuz Technology Group has launched a 3D content authoring and rendering package designed for TV graphics, digital signage and presentations. The range includes authoring tools for presentation creation, extensions for broadcast TV production and tools to create, schedule and update distributed digital signage systems.
-
News
New jvc cameras
JVC has launched new versions of its ProHD 100 series. The new GY-HD110 and 111 camcorders have features including simultaneous use of both eyepiece viewfinder and tri-mode LCD display, the option of switching the viewfinder to black and white display and a selectable mirror mode on a vertically flipped LCD ...
-
News
Mills to On Sight
HD dubbing and hire facility On Sight has recruited Richard Mills to join as chief engineer. Mills, who has 25 years' industry experience, was previously at Visions for 12 years as chief engineer and director of operations. He spent the past six years as manager of Molinare Studios and Transmission, ...
-
News
VTR buys Clear
Prime Focus-owned VTR plc has completed its acquisition of visual effects house Clear for£300,000 in cash and around 2 million VTR shares. The move comes after Broadcast revealed the company's plans to take over the boutique last month ( Broadcast, ...