All Features articles – Page 171
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FeaturesPeer poll: Love still the one to beat
Last year’s winner is again top of the poll after applying its winning Bake Off formula to the world of pottery, while boutique Minnow sits joint second alongside a resurgent Keo
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FeaturesBiggest successes of 2015: fastest risers
With commissions ranging from blue-light formats to docs, drama and children’s, these seven indies were the year’s fastest-growing UK production companies with turnovers below £20m
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FeaturesDrama indies take centre stage
Insatiable overseas appetite for English-language drama and the consequent flow of international money into UK production were the big themes of 2015.
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FeaturesOutpostVFX founder on growing business outside of London
By moving out of London, investing in new talent and pioneering free software Bournemouth-based OutpostVFX is attracting a range of US indies.
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FeaturesThe Aliens
Provide picture conform, grade, VFX and delivery services for the 6 x 60-minute drama about aliens who reside on Earth but are forced to live a segregated life behind a huge wall in a ghetto called Troy
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FeaturesHer Story: The Female Revolution
Provide final post-production on a 4 x 60-minute co-production exploring the growing influence of women over the century, from the point of view of leadership, personal life, religion and work.
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FeaturesScrambled!
Complete quick-turnaround post on third series of the 28 x 120-minute CITV kids’ magazine show.
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FeaturesComedy roundtable: keeping comedy fresh
Comedy hits can help to define a channel, but are new ideas losing out to safer bets, ‘funny factual’ and an inflated drama slate? Robin Parker asks five leading comedy producers
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FeaturesSitcom revivals: bringing back the classics
Is the apparent appetite for reviving sitcoms a sign of a dearth of new ideas or risks – or a legitimate way to celebrate our comedy heritage? Paul Whitelaw investigates
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FeaturesHigh Dynamic Range: Stepping out of the shadows
HDR promises to take 4K footage to a ‘whole other level’, capturing TV images that offer unprecedented detail and texture even in the shadows. Adrian Pennington reports on the adoption of the technology
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FeaturesTechnology start-ups: Daring to be disruptive
Entrepreneurial spirit may abound in television, but successful technology start-ups are few and far between. Will Strauss talks to three that are attempting to buck that trend and break into the industry
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FeaturesInterview: Nevion's Geir Bryn-Jensen on the shift to IP
Norway-based Nevion plans to help broadcasters face the future by transitioning them to a virtualised media production workflow.
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FeaturesBehind the scenes: The Secret Life of the Zoo
For its latest C4 fixed-rig series, production company Blast Films! called on the expertise of rig specialist Minicams to help it get up close and personal to the animals at Chester Zoo.
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FeaturesHer Story: the Female Revolution, BBC World News
Films of Records’s Neil Grant on partnering with advertising agency JWT Entertainment.
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FeaturesDiamond: the indie verdict
The latest industry diversity initiative is piling pressure on indies already juggling broadcasters’ targets, reveals Broadcast’s Indie Survey
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FeaturesGrantchester
Create a rich, authentic and elegant look and feel for a new series of the 1950s detective drama.
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FeaturesDoctor Thorne
Give a ‘fairytale’ touch to the 3 x 60-minute adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel.
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Features4 O'Clock Club
Provide full picture and sound post on series five of the CBBC musical comedy set in school, continuing its pop video look and creating a rich sound scape to make a believable school environment.
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FeaturesLight entertainment feels the squeeze
With the likely closure of Fountain Studios, shiny-floor shows could struggle to find space within the M25, but expansion elsewhere should ease the problem.
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FeaturesThe Last Leg, C4
Create an epic new title sequence for The Last Leg in which the presenters battle through a fierce storm to make it to the studio.