Create & Produce – Page 12
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Behind the Scenes: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Writer and director Joel Coen’s latest project is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth which will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on January 14. Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel explains how it was shot.
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What to expect in 2022
Apple will make the next streaming move; media goes wild for NFT; Avatar 2 kicks the metaverse into mainstream and England win the World Cup? Not all of these predictions will come true…
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2021 in review: Vendors and technology
In our second review of the past 12 months, we look back at supply chain issues, mergers and acquisitions, the rise of remote production and the dawn of the metaverse.
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How We Built It: Timeline’s Ealing Broadcast Centre
Outside broadcast and facilities company Timeline Television is expanding, with new studios and production facilities near its home base in Ealing, west London.
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Behind the scenes: Boiling Point
Stephen Graham is a chef with a simmering temper in a feature length one-take kitchen drama filmed at a real-life restaurant. Director Philip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis explain how it was done.
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IBC2021 Accelerators: Sustainability in live production
The recent COP26 conference and the urgent need to limit global temperature rises to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels has placed renewed emphasis on this IBC Accelerator, which seeks to expand some of the excellent work done throughout the broadcast and media industry to provide useful metrics for achieving carbon net ...
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IBC2021 Accelerators: 5G & Innovation in Live Production Workflows
After 2020’s successful 5G Remote Production Accelerator, a team of world-leading broadcasters are working on a new, extended Accelerator project, exploring innovation across four significant areas, including the continuing evolution of 5G.
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Rory Peck Awards: Inside the winning films
Freelance news journalism at its very best: The 26th annual Rory Peck Awards produced an astonishing parade of good old-fashioned journalism at its bravest and most human, writes George Jarrett.
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The evolution of post to a cloud-first model
With traditional working practices upended, rising costs and technological advances, startup post production firms are eschewing physical facilities in favour of a cloud-first approach.
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Nvidia: Virtual worlds will crop up like websites
Nvidia thinks it has the fabric for building the metaverse on a larger than planet scale.
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NFS over RDMA boosts storage performance for M&E workflows
We are in a new golden era of content creation writes Gregory Shiff. The explosion of streaming services has brought an unprecedented volume of new and amazing media. Production, post-production, visual effects, animation, finishing: everyone is booked solid with work. The expectations for this content are higher than ever, with ...
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Selecting the right CPU performance benchmark
Benchmarks are vital tools for measuring the performance of Central Processing Units (CPUs) in the most popular consumer devices writes Ajay Joshi. With the advent of more complicated use cases and compute workloads, benchmarks are becoming increasingly important in the home device market, which includes digital television (DTV) and set-top ...
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The Set Top Box revolution
The world of content distribution is undergoing a transformation, creating new commercial opportunities for operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) writes Pablo Fraile.
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Psychological first aid for freelancers
The Rory Peck Trust, the charity representing freelance news journalists, has teamed up with Facebook for two-part trauma and resilience pilot programme, that focusses on the treatable ‘injury’ aspects of post-traumatic stress injury rather than the tortuous ‘damage’ aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Dune: Behind the scenes with cinematographer Grieg Fraser
“Fear is the mind-killer,” says Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides in Dune. The hero must use his mind to overcome his fear. It’s a central theme of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel and one that also resonated with DP Grieg Fraser, ACS ASC, who is taking on the hallowed science fiction tome ...
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How the Battle of Lake Changjin is set to top 2021 box office
Chinese release The Battle of Lake Changjin epitomises the use of the term ‘epic’, with some three directors, six DoPs, 70,000 extras and a record domestic box office performance.
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IBC2021 Accelerators: Smart Remote Production For Real-Time Animation
Accelerating the animation pipeline without increasing the amount of kit required is the principal aim of the Smart Remote Production For Real-Time Animation Accelerator project, which is bringing together leading broadcasters and vendors to leverage the latest technological developments of markerless motion capture and speech-driven facial animation to drive CG ...
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From C3 to LED: Inside Sony’s latest tech
Sony presented some of its latest products at a recent technology roadshow, including its C3 Portal camera in the cloud service, an entry-level switcher a new pitch-side LED solution.
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The 5G gang: The coming of 5G Vista
Delivering richer fan experiences while more effectively using network resources are just two of the benefits of 5G Vista, but its potential goes way beyond this, as the team behind the project discussed at a recent demo day.