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Blue posts Strangest Village doc
Post facility Blue has completed the post production on The Strangest Village in Britain for Landmark Films. The Channel 4 documentary takes a look at Botton, a village whose 236 inhabitants are people with learning difficulties and co-workers who all form part of the same community. Dubbing mixer Matt Skilton ...
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Arenap3 finishes Martha & Me
ArenaP3 has just completed work on Martha & Me for BBC2. The 50-minute documentary follows filmmaker Jamie Campbell as he rents a caravan in the trailer park opposite disgraced domestic goddess Martha Stewart's prison and follows her home-making ideals in an attempt to understand her rise and fall. ArenaP3 editor, ...
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AHC completes football idents
AHC post has finished the high-definition post-production on idents for the Confederations Cup. The Confederations Cup, which pits continental football champions against each other, kicks off on 15 June with coverage on Five. Senior editor Victor Riva offlined the project on a Quantel editbox, using down conversions of the rushes ...
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Music vision award
Rushes' VFX team has picked up the best special effects prize at the CADS Music Vision awards for its work on Dizzee Rascal's Dream, beating off competition from U2's Vertigo and UNKLE's Reign. Vfx artists Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin and Dave Bannister claimed the award.
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Willey joins Pepper
Post-production facility Pepper has appointed Paul Willey as a new business executive across broadcast and film projects at its Covent Garden headquarters. Willey comes direct from broadcast facility VTR Media Services company Blue. He had previously worked at fellow VMS company The Machine Room.
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Show visitors rise
Last week's Broadcast Production Show recorded a 19% increase in visitors year-on-year to over 9,400 and has laid out plans for expansion in 2006. Arqiva - formerly NTL Broadcast - has already signed up to create a new Content and Delivery Zone at next year's show. Keynote sessions will be ...
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New location guide
The 2005 edition of The Location Guide, which is about to launch its seventh edition with over 100 countries covered as filming destinations, has been expanded to include locations such as Uganda and Macedonia. The book, which acts as a guide to production service companies and ...
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Abery steps down
Crown Castle chief executive Peter Abery is to step down by the end of the year to make way for chief operating officer Steven Marshall. Abery will remain heavily involved in the broadcast side of operations in the role of deputy chairman at the company. He will ...
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HQ for assimilate
Digital Intermediary developer Assimilate last week opened its European headquarters in central London. European sales manager Marie Buckley, who has previously held sales management positions for 5D and SpeedSix, will head up Assimilate's new office. Film post-production facility Cinesite recently bought four Assimilate Scratch DI systems.
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BBC Sport records HD tennis first
BBC Sport is to produce its first high-definition recording for broadcast at The Hastings Direct International Championship next week.
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UK Post looks to fill board places
The Farm Group managing director Nicky Sargent and Framestore-CFC managing director William Sargent have stepped down from the board of UK Post ahead of its elections.
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Root buys autocue
Autocue International, the company that owns the 50-year-old Autocue prompting business, has been bought by private equity company Root Capital for around£2m. Root Capital partner and Autocue chairman Simon Phillips would not comment on the price paid but said: 'We've got plenty of capital and we plan to invest.' No ...
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Nats to pioneer remote editing
Clients of Nats Post Production will soon be able to cut basic offline edits from home, in their office or out on location thanks to a partnership the facility is forming with an internet-based editing company.
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Stopping the download pirates
Do broadcasters inevitably face massive losses from the increasing problem of programme piracy or can they beatthe pirates with a combination of legislation and their own download sites? Meg Carter reports.
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NewsAutocue sold for£2m
Autocue International, the company that owns the 50-year old Autocue prompting business, has been bought out by private equity company Root Capital for around£2m.
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Lime sees colour of M2's money in£750,000 set-up
M2 financial director John Tadros is pumping over£750,000 into vfx start-up Lime.
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Aquarium dubs Beethoven
Aquarium has completed audio and online post on BBC documentary drama Beethoven. The 3 x 60-minute series, presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood, follows eyewitness accounts of Beethoven's life and legendary compositions. Audio recordings of Beethoven playing alongside an orchestra were made on set and passed on ...
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BB producer award
Big Brothersenior producer Melissa Brown was among those honoured at the Broadcast Young Talent Awards at the National Film Theatre last week. Head of More4 Peter Dale presented Brown - who has been employed as a senior producer by Endemol on flagship shows such as Big ...
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BBC Resources sale put on hold
The BBC's offer to put a sale of BBC Resources on hold for two years following last week's strike has been welcomed by the industry but has rekindled concerns over BBC sweeteners.
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BBC tapeless trials near final hurdle
The BBC has confirmed that the lucrative preferred solutions slots being battled over by Sony and Panasonic are still open to competition.