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Flying TV's BBC job
Aerial filming outfit Flying TV has provided all the aerial camera shots for the December launch of the BBC local TV trial in the Midlands using its G-Pixx television helicopter. The helicopter covered 15 locations and 5,000 square miles in a day of shooting using four digital cameras. The local ...
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Rushes creates Rome effects
Rushes has created the visual effects for BBC/HBO's Rome, an epic 11 x 50-minute drama tracking Caesar's return to his empire. The major VFX task was to reproduce a view from Alexandria across the ancient harbour entirely in 3D. This was supervised by Jim Madigan and Pixar's Renderman software was ...
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Farm makes Perfect Scary Movie
The Farm Group has created the titles and completed the post-production for Visual Voodoo documentary The Perfect Scary Movie. The two-hour special exposes how psychological ploys were used by the world's scariest movies to frighten audiences and examines our deep-rooted fears. The Farm's Barney Jordan designed the titles with director ...
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Pepper completes Bleak House
Pepper has completed the post-production on Smallweed Productions' Bleak House, a 10-part adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel starring Gillian Anderson. Pepper's senior colourist, Chris Beeton, graded the series on the Da Vinci 2K+, while the online and conform was completed by senior editor Shane Warden on DS Nitris. Beeton graded ...
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Colour me digital: DI unravelled
Digital intermediate (DI) is the new buzzword floating around film-based post houses - but what does it mean for the TV industry? David Wood investigates while Kevin Hilton looks at the new skills the process will require of Soho's online editors and colourists.
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BT aims for VoD football
BT plans to bid for video-on-demand rights to Premiership football for the 2007-2010 seasons for its new TV-over-broadband service.
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NewsBT selects Phillips to make IPTV boxes
11.45am: BT has said it will use electronics company Philips to supply its TV over broadband set top box.
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NewsBBC join with DJs Coldcut to launch contest
8am: A website offering clips from the BBC archive has attracted a quarter of a million visitors since launching last month, and now hip-hop duo DJs Coldcut have created a music video from the footage.
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Endemol to launch mobile channels
Endemol chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette unveiled plans for two mobile phone 'channels' and a new UK production division dedicated to mobile content as he addressed delegates at Mipcom's Mobile Day last week.
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NewsDesperate Housewives picks up Mobile TV Award
10.30am:Desperate Housewives weekly mobile recaps made by Buena Vista International scooped the Orange grand prize for best innovation in mobile content at the inaugural Mobile TV Awards.
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NewsPost house of the year
Broadcast is searching to find the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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BBC factual to phase out DigiBeta cameras
The BBC's plan to cut production costs has gone a step further, with its factual and learning department's proposal to phase out the use of DigiBeta cameras for the department's programmes.
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Experts raise doubts over move to tapeless
'Less tape' is more likely than 'tapeless' for programme delivery in the near future was the message that emerged from last Thursday's Broadcast Tapeless Production conference at Carlton Towers Hotel in London, writes Richard Dean.
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Promax shortlist
Promax has announced the nominations for this year's Promax UK Awards. Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has been nominated in five categories, including best launch and best television campaign. BBC Broadcast, Five, ITV and BSkyB are also among the nominations alongside independent design agencies Angelfish, Devilfish and Skin. The ...
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Whitfield St kit sale
Whitfield Street Studios' recording and post-production equipment will go under the hammer in a webcast auction on 15 November, following its closure last month (Broadcast, 26.9.05). Auctioneers firm Edward Symmons is hoping to shift equipment including an SSL 9000J series 72-channel mixing console and a comprehensive range of outboard equipment. ...
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Glassworks hire
Glassworks has recruited VTR post-producer Anthea Mousley to join its production department. Mousley, who worked on the latest Rimmel and Dairylea campaigns during her 18 months at VTR, will join producers Tim Phillips, Jonathan Davies and Romilly Endacott. Her addition to the team is part of an expansion at the ...
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BBC World on net
BBC World is the latest channel to be made available on IPTV network GreenGrass as part of its beta trial. It will join ITN and motor-sport channel Revs TV in the trial ahead of GreenGrass' full consumer launch in January. The channel will go live and be announced to consumers ...
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Technicolor move
Technicolor Creative Services is injecting£500,000 into the expansion of its DVD facility in west London. The facility has opened up 32 new positions within its DVD and UMD compression and authoring arm, boosting the number of staff to more than 70. The expansion includes three Sony UMD authoring stations and ...
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Extreme alliance
Extreme Video has collaborated with unmanned blimp specialist 2PiR to develop 'tele-eye', the world's smallest and lightest remote-controlled HD aerial TV camera system. It was used for the first time this month for Sky TV's coverage of the Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham's NEC.
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VooDooDog talks popcorn for Sky
Sky Creative Agency and animators VooDooDog have created a series of trailers for the Sky Movies channels, featuring talking popcorn. Viewers were recorded talking about their favourite films and the voices were then edited to three 30-second spots and adapted to the popcorn, which VooDooDog's Charlie Lovett animated on Maya ...