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C4's mobile games
Channel 4 has launched a mobile phone gaming service through 4Interactive, entering a Eu100m (£70m) market. Games are downloaded through the C4 website for£4.50 each. Research has suggested that the downloadable Java games market could generate revenues of up to $2bn (£1.08bn) by 2008. C4 has teamed up with European ...
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Absolute Flame hire
Absolute Post has appointed James Allen as a senior Flame artist. He joins from Glassworks. Allen has worked with directors Chris Cunningham and Will van der Vluht as a Flame operator.
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Evolutions posts C4's Auschwitz
Evolutions Television has finished post on Auschwitz - The Forgotten Evidence for Flashback Television and Channel 4. The documentary studies reconnaissance photos of the Nazi death camp that were taken by Allied planes in 1944 and why, despite Churchill's recommendations, no action was taken. Evolutions' ...
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Frontier's great composers
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats for Channel 4. In the 4 x 50-minute series, made by Tiger Aspect, composer Howard Goodall studies the musicians who dominated the 20th-century by fusing classical and popular music. The series was onlined and ...
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Blue finishes Tim Marlow series
Blue has completed the online and audio post on Tim Marlow's Judgement Day. The Seventh Art-produced series explores how ideas of life after death have been represented in art throughout history. The first episode focuses on judgement after death, from ancient Egypt and Buddhist ...
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Hive staff depart to establish Lime
Four members of The Hive have left VTR Media Services to set up a new company, funded by M2 Television's finance director.
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C4 upgrades broadcast servers
Channel 4 has spent more than£300,000 upgrading its broadcast servers.
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Tapeless BBC will save cash on transfers
The BBC spends£8.5m a year transferring footage to and from tape.
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Outpost puts£100k into HD
Outpost Facilities at Pinewood Studios has invested more than£100,000 on HD equipment.
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Five finishes dentist doc's titles
Five Creative Services has made the titles for upcoming documentary series Can You Trust Your Dentist? The titles evoke the nightmarish experience of being at the mercy of shady dental practitioners. Senior designers Timothy Evans and Barney Steel completed compositing and created the 3D waiting ...
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Liquid's Celeb work completed
Liquid TV has completed titles for I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here! The sequence features a limo crashing through a jungle canopy and spilling its contents - a car-load of celebs - into a storm of camera flashes. The car and the celebrities ...
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Frontier finalises So Solid film
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Maroon Productions' Sticks and Stones for C4. The one-hour documentary follows So Solid Crew's Asher D as he asks why some racially offensive language is part of modern life. The show was produced and directed by Paul Blake, edited ...
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Big Bang begins
Big Bang Post Production has been opened in Bristol by Mastertracks owner Neil Hipkiss and online editor Tim Bolt. Dubbing mixer Hipkiss and Bolt have based the new company in the same building as Mastertracks. Bolt, who left Pinkhouse Post in July, will offer an online post-production capability with a ...
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Saint's BBC job
Newly formed agency Saint has produced promos for BBC Broadcast, designing a package for BBC series Hard Spell. They were designed and art directed by Nicky Thompson from Saint and the 3D and compositing was done at The Hive. The promo's director was BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudior and the producer ...
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Malik to Red Post
Kabir Malik has joined Red Post Production from Ascent Media. Malik has been appointed business development manager, having had similar roles at a number of post companies.
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Peck honours cameraman
The British TV cameraman killed in the Gaza Strip while making a documentary for HBO was this week honoured posthumously with a Rory Peck award.
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Thomson buys in to Corinthian TV
Thomson has bought a majority stake of playout specialist Corinthian Television Facilities for an undisclosed figure.
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Video buys tapeless
Video Europe has bought£500,000 of high-definition and tapeless broadcast equipment because of increasing demand for the new formats. Managing director Steve Green said: 'We held off until we thought that the demand was strong enough. We think that this equipment will cover the demand for now.' Video Europe's haul includes ...
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Photomec first
Todd-AO Creative Services has bought a 16mm/35mm Photo-mec film processor for about£80,000. The new machine will be able to process Super 8mm negative film and is believed to make Todd-AO the only company in the UK to offer this processing service. The availability of the processor in Camden will improve ...
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Big Buoy does Blackpool
Big Buoy has produced visual effects for the BBC musical drama Blackpool. The 6 x 60-minute series follows Ripley Holden's (David Morissey) attempts to open an amusement arcade in the seaside town following the discovery of a dead body on the premises. The story is punctuated with fruit machine visuals ...