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Pepper hires TK man
Pepper Post has appointed Aubrey Wooliwiss as assistant colourist. He joins from Framestore CFC. Wooliwiss will work with senior colourists Chris Beeton and Jet Omeshebi and colourist Dan Coles. Managing director Patrick Holzen said Wooliwiss' appointment had increased overall staffing at the department and that the newcomer had great potential.
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Martinez to Liquid
Freelance designer Victor Martinez is set to join design agency Liquid TV in January. Martinez will report directly to managing director Azra Alikhan as a senior designer. He won a Sportel award for ITV's The Premiership 2002/2003 idents and has been nominated for both Bafta ...
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Blue adds to HD
Blue has expanded its HD facilities with an Avid DS Nitris because of increased demand for high-definition editing, such as work on Fat Fiancés , a 50-minute documentary for Cicada Films. Fat Fiancés will air on the Discovery Channel in ...
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Devilfish gives new look to Five
Devilfish has redesigned Five's on-screen ident package. The package places the Five logo within the branding, appearing on pregnancy scans and being borne by leaf-carrying ants. Devilfish's Sean de Sparengo directed the sequences. The idents were post-produced at VTR and worked on by colourist Tareq Kubaisi, Flame
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Pepper grades Lawless for ITV1
Pepper has completed grading and special effects on Newcastle-based police drama Lawless. The two-part ITV1 series produced by Company Pictures focuses on corruption within the police force and stars Trevor Eve. Pepper's effects team, Scott Hinchcliffe and Simon Giblin, created special effects including a ...
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The Station titles Berlin journey
The Station has produced the title sequence for ITN Factual series The Road to Berlin. The series follows pub comedian Al Murray as he follows in the footsteps of the Allied forces from Normandy across Europe to Berlin in the final months of the ...
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Sumners adds DS Nitris and audio theatre
Manchester-based post-production facility Sumners has invested£160,000 in new editing and sound equipment.
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Pinewood Shepperton has appointed former Anglia TV and Teddington Studios executive Ian Osborne as head of television.
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History Channel gets redesign
Lambie Nairn has redesigned The History Channel's international branding package. Lambie Nairn used modern and anci...
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Fusion rides high after stabilising debts
Fusion Post Production has successfully secured a company voluntary agreement (CVA) and has recorded its two most successful months ever.
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Management buyout at MPC ?doubtful'
The rumoured£50m price tag for the Moving Picture Company (MPC) has silenced industry talk of a management buyout.
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Hawkeye a winner
Hawkeye, the tennis and cricket virtual replay system, has won two IT awards at this year's British Computer Society Awards. Hawkeye Innovations scooped both the applications award and flagship award. The system tracks the motion of the ball during cricket and tennis matches with the resulting information being used to ...
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Easy starts blaze
Software developer Easy Effects has launched its first vfx plug-ins, following beta testing at Nats Post Production. The plug-in, Blaze, is the first in a line called The Look which is designed specifically for offline and online editors using Avid systems. It aims to fulfil the demands that are put ...
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Bluw delivers Classic FM idents
Bluw has completed production on idents for Classic FM TV. The series of promos bring the channel's television and radio offerings closer by promoting the radio shows to the brand's TV audience. The idents attempt to mirror the channel's sense of calm by using filmic images and languid camera movements. ...
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Sanctuary posts Bomber Crew
Sanctuary post has post-produced RDF Media's Bomber Crew for Channel 4. The series gives five grandchildren of second world war bomber crews the same training undertaken by their grandfathers, culminating in flights on the same planes. It combines the training with archive footage and interviews. ...
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Ascent reveals Euro ambitions
Ascent Media Group (AMG) UK managing director Brenda Smith has set out a blueprint for the group's expansion in 2005 that includes plans for an attack on business in mainland Europe.
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VTR opens new facility in Leeds
Facilities Group VTR is to open a branch in Leeds. The move, which is being made in partnership with a local company, will create 11 new jobs and bring£450,000 of business to the city.
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BBC entrusts Dr Who delivery to Beam.tv
The Mill is using its delivery and viewing system Beam.tv on the new series of Dr Who , the first time it has been used for a longform broadcast project.
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Evolutions TV splashes out on high-def kit
Evolutions Television has spent£175,000 on high-end HD kit.
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EU funds BT project
The EU has given millions of pounds in funding to a British Telecom project aimed at formulating new ways of creating and viewing media. The New Media for a New Millennium project (NM2) is split across a number of countries, with research shared across technology companies and educational institutions. NM2 ...