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BBC OB scrubs up to film kidney transplant operation
BBC Outside Broadcasts, which crewed last year's award-winning Breast Cancer: The Operation, has been called in again on a BBC1 show about kidney transplant operations. The unit, headed by manager Steve Hall, worked closely with St Mary's Hospital to ensure health and safety. The shoot used ...
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BDH projects onto crime screen
Animal Crime Sceneseries producer Hilary Jeffkins commissioned designer Steve Burrell from agency BDH to work on opening titles and content graphics for the BBC natural history unit's new whodunnit animal series. Burrell created a large transparent crime screen onto which graphics and footage are projected using movie ...
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Blue illustrates Nazi mentality
BBC Broadcast's brief to post house Blue for UK History's six-part Inside the Nazi Statewas to shed light on the mentality of those who supported the Nazis. Blue came up with a reconstruction of a Nazi throwing a brick into of a Jewish bakery, but played ...
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Lipsync designs fatherhood FX
Lipsync Post designed and produced 30-second and 10-second titles and graphics for Hat Trick Productions' BBC3 series He's Having a Baby, based on the journey from bachelorhood to fatherhood. In one sequence a roadsign turns into a mobile of cascading£20 notes as storks fly by. A ...
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The Mill hires duo
The Mill has hired two graduates from French animation college Supinfocom on the strength of their abstract end-of-year film 90 Degrees. Jules Janaud and Francois Roisin will join the facility in September as 3D animators.
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Podcasting event
The UK's first conference devoted to podcasting is to take place on Saturday, 17 September at the Berners Hotel, London. The line-up of PodcastCon UK 2005 will include BBC head of interactive radio Chris Kimber, Virgin Radio head of strategic development James Cridland and international award-winning podcaster Richard Vobes.
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Facilities move to 'Valleywood'
Dragon International Studios, the£330m film and TV studio complex being built in South Wales, has already spawned its first post-production start-up - film and TV facility Digital Dragon.
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Stanley in HD move
Dubbing house Stanley Productions has invested£84,000 in Sony's top-end HDCam SRW-5500 VTR. The format offers 1080 HD-quality recording and playback at multiple frame rates. Applications range from HDTV to digital cinematography and digital intermediates.
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Skillset launch
Skillset has launched its Indie Business Development Scheme, funded by the European Social Fund and aimed at independent producers. Over the next year it will give 45 companies a tailored package of support including business planning, consultancy and training bursaries for staff.
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Why broadband is redefining TV
Two broadband TV formats are vying for viewers' attention: one PC-based the other via the set-top box into the television.
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The net gains from Broadband TV
With technology barriers starting to fall, broadcasters are piling into internet video on demand. David Woodexamines the programming and production techniques the new medium is likely to adopt.
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NewsNighty Night goes mobile
The BBC is launching its first experiment with mobile phone broadcasting, making clips of BBC3 comedy Nighty Nightavailable over videophones.
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NewsBBC employee faked Wikipedia entry
Users of encyclopaedia website Wikipedia claim the site has been exploited for a viral marketing campaign for a BBC project.
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NewsBBC dogged by spoof news story
The BBC is still being dogged by a spoof BBC News web page which reported the death of 28 midgets in a fight with a lion.
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Avid buys out Pinnacle in£259m deal
Avid is to complete its proposed takeover of California-based video-editing firm Pinnacle Systems this week after the£259m deal was cleared by the European Commission.
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Nats gets equation right for C4
Nats has finished posting Channel 4's£1.3m E=MC2, a docu-drama which traces the roles played by five scientists in piecing together the world's best known equation. It was produced in HD by indie Darlow Smithson using DVCPro HD on the Panasonic Varicam at 720p. Post-production supervisor Richard Gillespie ...
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Top Banana studio
Birmingham-based commercials production company Top Banana has acquired Optical Image's Stourbridge facilities business, which includes the lease on a 9,000sq ft studio, five edit suites and the company's existing client base and has relocated to Optical's site in Broome, near Stourbridge. Optical Image has refocused its activities, but will continue ...
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BBC factual trials in-house editing
The BBC's latest scheme for cutting the cost of programme-making will be tested at the corporation's London-based factual and learning department later this year with the introduction of low-cost desktop editing systems for production teams.
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BBC's Belgian job
BBC Broadcast has created a fresh football brand for Belgian telco Belgacom and public service broadcasters VRT and RTBF. The idents will be used on football broadcasts and matches streamed on the web. Produced by Louise Braham and designed by Katy Jones the work was posted in 3D by Andy ...
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Pepper Post revamps to grab film business
Pepper Post has restructured its senior management team, creating the new posts of head of operations and head of film as part of a fresh drive to win more film business.