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Kemistry wins MTV
Design and branding company Kemistry has won the contract to rebrand MTV3 in Finland. Kemistry will be responsible for producing the entire on-air package, covering idents, news programme graphics and website interfaces. The channel will relaunch in the autumn. Creative head Graham McCallum, who branded the original launch of MTV3 ...
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Funds for films
London's digital film festival, Pulse, has opened up£80,000 of funding to film-makers working in the digital medium. The funding will be spread among a maximum of 10 short films. Pulse was launched by Film London, in association with the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund in 2002, to help produce ...
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Musgrove Quits M2
Darren Musgrove has left Soho post-production company M2 to join broadcast facility Evolutions Television. Musgrove joins as a business development manager at the Berners Street post house. Musgrove previously worked for the BBC, Oasis and Broadcastmagazine. Post production producer Melanie Tomlin has also joined, leaving Nats ...
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Growing pains in the world of DVD
DVD is good business for facilities houses. But with increased competition and the introduction of new formats, it's a maturing market. By Kevin Hilton.
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T4 party gets a beach brand
Design agency Burrell Durrant Hifle (BDH) has designed and produced the branding for T4's summer party, T4 On the Beach. The brief covered the event from on-air trails and titles to billboards and a T4 bus livery. Director John Durrant and designer Carys Hull shot presenters ...
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Video Europe in£1m rental
Equipment rental company Video Europe has won a£1m contract with Dubai-based broadcaster Taj Television to supply the production equipment for all international cricket in Pakistan and Sri Lanka for three years.
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Blue posts Strangest Village doc
Post facility Blue has completed the post production on The Strangest Village in Britain for Landmark Films. The Channel 4 documentary takes a look at Botton, a village whose 236 inhabitants are people with learning difficulties and co-workers who all form part of the same community. Dubbing mixer Matt Skilton ...
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Arenap3 finishes Martha & Me
ArenaP3 has just completed work on Martha & Me for BBC2. The 50-minute documentary follows filmmaker Jamie Campbell as he rents a caravan in the trailer park opposite disgraced domestic goddess Martha Stewart's prison and follows her home-making ideals in an attempt to understand her rise and fall. ArenaP3 editor, ...
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AHC completes football idents
AHC post has finished the high-definition post-production on idents for the Confederations Cup. The Confederations Cup, which pits continental football champions against each other, kicks off on 15 June with coverage on Five. Senior editor Victor Riva offlined the project on a Quantel editbox, using down conversions of the rushes ...
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Music vision award
Rushes' VFX team has picked up the best special effects prize at the CADS Music Vision awards for its work on Dizzee Rascal's Dream, beating off competition from U2's Vertigo and UNKLE's Reign. Vfx artists Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin and Dave Bannister claimed the award.
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Willey joins Pepper
Post-production facility Pepper has appointed Paul Willey as a new business executive across broadcast and film projects at its Covent Garden headquarters. Willey comes direct from broadcast facility VTR Media Services company Blue. He had previously worked at fellow VMS company The Machine Room.
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Show visitors rise
Last week's Broadcast Production Show recorded a 19% increase in visitors year-on-year to over 9,400 and has laid out plans for expansion in 2006. Arqiva - formerly NTL Broadcast - has already signed up to create a new Content and Delivery Zone at next year's show. Keynote sessions will be ...
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New location guide
The 2005 edition of The Location Guide, which is about to launch its seventh edition with over 100 countries covered as filming destinations, has been expanded to include locations such as Uganda and Macedonia. The book, which acts as a guide to production service companies and ...
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Abery steps down
Crown Castle chief executive Peter Abery is to step down by the end of the year to make way for chief operating officer Steven Marshall. Abery will remain heavily involved in the broadcast side of operations in the role of deputy chairman at the company. He will ...
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HQ for assimilate
Digital Intermediary developer Assimilate last week opened its European headquarters in central London. European sales manager Marie Buckley, who has previously held sales management positions for 5D and SpeedSix, will head up Assimilate's new office. Film post-production facility Cinesite recently bought four Assimilate Scratch DI systems.
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BBC Sport records HD tennis first
BBC Sport is to produce its first high-definition recording for broadcast at The Hastings Direct International Championship next week.
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UK Post looks to fill board places
The Farm Group managing director Nicky Sargent and Framestore-CFC managing director William Sargent have stepped down from the board of UK Post ahead of its elections.
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Root buys autocue
Autocue International, the company that owns the 50-year-old Autocue prompting business, has been bought by private equity company Root Capital for around£2m. Root Capital partner and Autocue chairman Simon Phillips would not comment on the price paid but said: 'We've got plenty of capital and we plan to invest.' No ...
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Nats to pioneer remote editing
Clients of Nats Post Production will soon be able to cut basic offline edits from home, in their office or out on location thanks to a partnership the facility is forming with an internet-based editing company.
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Stopping the download pirates
Do broadcasters inevitably face massive losses from the increasing problem of programme piracy or can they beatthe pirates with a combination of legislation and their own download sites? Meg Carter reports.