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Capital and BBC to enhance networks with broadband
Two of the country's biggest radio broadcasters are installing 'broadband' style networks between their stations to allow programme material to be networked across the country, writes Kevin Hilton.
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West End's DGP goes east for Channel 4
Soho post house DGP has cut and graded A Bit of Oriental, a new show for Channel 4 produced by Spiritworld. The 1 x 30-minute programme is a light-hearted documentary that looks at the lives of Oriental women and how they are perceived in British ...
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Prime spot for cams
Prime TV is planning to turn London's Olympia into a giant Big Brother house next week for The Production Show by installing 16 mini-cams around the venue. As part of a competition to win a magnum of champagne, the kit hire company will hide the ...
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Clarke goes it alone
422 London creative director Simon Clarke has quit the company to set up his own design facility. Clarke, who has a background in creating visual effects work for science-based programmes, spent four years at 422 but felt he wanted to offer producers a different way of working. Clarke Associates will ...
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Formats showcase
The Production Show 2003 is giving over two full days of conferences sessions to new and emerging acquisition formats. Essential HD day and Essential DV day will provide producers and directors with an inside track on shooting effectively with the current and next generation of digital video with presentations from ...
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Hive hires Flame man
Effects and finishing house The Hive has poached Flame artist Matt Wilmshurst from The Mill. He joins as senior digital artist and will do compositing work as well as on-set visual effects supervision. Of particular interest to The Hive was his experience working in compositing live action with computer-generated 3D ...
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Post industry panel calls for trade body
The UK's post-production sector needs a trade association fighting on its behalf if it is to survive as part of the television-making process, writes Will Strauss.
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Free training offer at production expo
Editing equipment manufacturers Quantel and Apple will be hoping to entice editors away from their Avid roots at The Production Show this month by offering them free training on competitor products, writes Sam Espensen.
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ADI aims to widen field of work with new truck
Outside Broadcast company ADI has built itself a£700,000 truck in an effort to win a wider variety of broadcast work, writes Sam Espensen.
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Kidd gets T-shirty in cancer ad
Supermodel Jodie Kidd is the face of a new campaign to promote the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer T-shirt for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. The ad, posted by Rushes and directed by Brave's Lucy Blakstad, shows Kidd facing the dilemma of what to wear on a big night out before finally finding ...
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S&G digidesign buy
London audio facility Saunders & Gordon (S&G) has bought two Digidesign Pro Tools HD audio systems. Facility director Tim Lofts said the kit was bought to cope with an influx of new work, adding that he believes that Pro Tools is an 'excellent all-round post-production tool, particularly for long-form TV ...
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Beetan joins Flare
Flare DVD has a new head of department after Katy Beetan joined the outfit from Universal International Pictures. She left her role as production manager for international product, saying that after 'a number of structural changes at Universal, this was the right time for me to go'. She joins as ...
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First birthday at KPM
Music library company KPM's Internet site is a year old, and the company has been making improvements to the site as a result of customer feedback. Closer compatibility and faster integration are two requests from users, so music can now be downloaded as WAV and/or AIFF files, at either 44.1 ...
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Mersey server deal
Mersey TV is continuing its 'shoot to disk' philosophy with the acquisition of six Dual Channel Geevs video servers from Gee Broadcast. The servers, which sell for about£25,000 each, will be used for the production of Hollyoaks. Technical director for Mersey TV Graham Deaves says ...
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Reflecmedia NAB award
Reflecmedia, a manufacturer of chroma key products, has won the NAB award for innovation in media. Its ChromaFlex product won the award for its ease of use. The portable chroma key solution is a collapsible frame covered with Reflecmedia's patented Chromatte fabric, which folds into a 36-inch bag and opens ...
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Lola in on BBC show
London effects house Lola is following up its work on Wall to Wall's upcoming Ancient Egyptians with a series for the BBC about the destruction of the Roman City of Pompeii. Lola founder Grahame Andrew has just returned from three weeks working as post supervisor in Tunisia for the programme, ...
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Digi-box.co.uk takes IO
Digital hire company Digi-Box.co.uk has placed an order for 50 IO systems from AJA Video, which won a Vidy Award at NAB 2003. Developed closely in connection with Apple, the IO is the first uncompressed audio/video FireWire device for Final Cut Pro 4. It is also the first product to ...
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Character shop gets fruity with nestle
Nestle's Munch Bunch gets a relaunch this month courtesy of The Character Shop with an ad featuring a mix of live action and CGI. Bob Cosford (formerly of Red Pepper) directed the spot using 3DS Max's CharacterStudio with RealFlow to create a river of yoghurt. Cosford also created a Munch ...
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Brazier joins St Anne's post
Kevin Brazier, the former managing director of dB Post, the audio post-production facility that closed at the end of last year, has joined St Anne's Post as its new head of sound editorial, working alongside dubbing mixer and head of audio David Old, writes Kevin Hilton.
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BBC news trials interactive programming on the web
Technical specialists at BBC news interactive are testing a technology that could allow viewers to access interactive BBC news content via the Internet, writes Will Strauss.