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Grand Central buys e-cinema
Soho-based audio specialist Grand Central Sound Studio's£5m, two-year transition into a 'luxury' post facility has culminated in the acquisition of a range of electronic cinema projectors.
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Big Squid gives rocket boost
Big Squid has produced the special effects sequences and titles for children's comedy drama Patrick's Planet. The 13-part, 30-minute series by Tiger Lily Films tells the story of a boy whose life changes when he builds a rocket for a school competition. 3D animator Chris Hawkes used 3D Studio Max ...
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Avid unveils latest
Avid has unveiled its next-generation shared-storage solution, the Avid Unity ISIS. It claims to provide a real-time shared workflow to deliver increased storage of up to 64 terabytes, and client connectivity. It is designed to support digital media production environments including broadcast news and network production operations, and reality television. ...
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Astbury in move
Ascent Media's Soho Images is losing colourist Simon Astbury to Clear Cut Pictures, where he is to work in a dedicated grading environment. Astbury spent four years at Todd-AO before moving to Soho Images where he operated Pogle Platinum and Symphony. His credits include the grading on dramas BBC/A&E's The ...
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Disney apes Virgin
Disney has hopped on the mobile bandwagon with a plan to launch Disney Mobile, a 'virtual' operator similar to Virgin Mobile. The company announced its plans in the US in partnership with network operator Sprint. Disney expects its family-friendly content will attract customers in the competitive US market, but would ...
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Hive hires animator
The Hive has recruited Condor's senior 3D artist Bryan Servante. Servante, who had previously worked at Banbury-based AudioMotion, was lead animator on BBC1/Box TV's The Legend of the Tamworth Two, animated for Discovery and the Disney Channel, and idents for BBC History. He joins The Hive as senior animator.
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Who will be the winners in 2012?
One of the themes at this year's Promax is future-proofing for 2012. So what will the media landscape look like then? Broadcast asks five industry figures to predict the trends and technologies that will affect TV's marketers and creative directors and the new skills and knowledge that will be needed ...
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NewsChannel 4 launches mobile channel
Channel 4 will this week become the first terrestrial broadcaster to launch a branded mobile TV channel, screening popular shows such as Supernanny and Brat Camp in full.
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NewsBBC plans interactive online drama
The BBC is set to launch its first interactive drama, which will be offered exclusively to broadband users online.
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NewsITV plans 'imminent' acquisitions
ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry said today he was close to making a series of acquisitions.
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NewsSex Traffic up for five craft awards
Eight members of the production team that worked on the Granada-produced docu-drama Sex Traffic are up for gongs at this month's RTS Craft and Design Awards
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NewsAardman secures raft of mobile deals
Aardman Animations has signed a series of global deals to sell its library of cartoon content for viewing on mobile phones.
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NewsSky to launch mobile service
9am: BSkyB and mobile phone operator Vodafone have joined forces to launch a mobile television service for the UK.
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Free HD training
Soho Editors Training has collaborated with Leitch to run a series of free HD workflow training events across the UK, starting in November. SET will provide technology on the non-linear HD editing system from Leitch Velocity HD. The events are aimed at those in the industry wanting to learn more ...
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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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Eely to Molinare
Senior online editor Justin Eely is to join Molinare in December after a year-long stint at Pepper.
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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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Pro-Bel buys Vistek
Reading-based Pro-Bel, the manufacturer and supplier of workflow technologies, has acquired Vistek Electronics Limited for£8.45m. Vistek, which designs television signal equipment, is poised to celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. Vistek is expected to boost Pro-Bel's HD output with its HD modular range. It will remain as a product line ...
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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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BBC Broadcast unveils rebrand
After months of brainstorming BBC Broadcast has finally come up with a new name and corporate identity: Red Bee Media.