Televisual articles from July 2004

Televisual archives from July 2004

Kudos and Webster join forces on new stand-alone film outfit.(Film)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Former Film Four head Paul Webster and joint mds of Kudos Production, Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett, have teamed up to set up a new stand-alone feature film company, Kudos Film. The new outfit aims to move talent from TV into the...

Worldwide launches BBC Motion Gallery.(Archives)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... BBC Worldwide is extending its footage sales business with the launch of BBC Motion Gallery, a direct-access internet-based clips library sourced from both the BBC archives and the CBS news archives. MD Simon Gibbs says he's making the move...

Channel 4 goes back to school.(Training)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Channel 4 is the first broadcaster to support Westminster Kingsway College's new Soho training initiative. Based in Rupert Street, The Creative Media Lab will oiler training for everyone from runner to commissioner. CA is helping the Lab...

Rushes reveals 2004 shortlist.(Film)
July 1, 2004... The Rushes Short Film Festival has extracted a shortlist of nominees from over 1800 entries for its sixth annual event. The five categories are music video; animation; title sequence; short film; and best newcomer. Shortlisters include...

IVCA Clarion Awards.
July 1, 2004... The IVCA Clarion Awards will take place on 15 July at Westminster's Portcullis House. The awards are the first to recognise campaigns by corporate production companies communicating responsible practice. The five categories cover strategy,...

TWI.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... TWI is to be media consultant and distributor for the 32nd America's Cup. New management ACM plans to make the competition mere TV-friendly, bringing in shorter races and fleet racing. TWI will also use 3D graphics, onboard cameras and behind...

On the move.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... On the move: Partizan has signed Shaun of the Dead/ Spaced director Edgar Wright; Lowe copywriter/art director Vince Squibb is moving to Gorgeous to direct; writer/director/ editor duo Ludwig and Paul Shammasian have joined Godman; and factual...

Can Communicate.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... London-based producer Can Communicate has been hired as official filmmaker to the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games in September. A documentary, Spirit in Motion, will follow 10 Paralympians as they head for the games. The doc will be part of an...

Dragonfly emerges from BBC Post's Bristol wing.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... BBC Post Production Bristol Design has created the eponymous cg insect for Dragonfly Beauty or Beast, part of a new 10x30-minute Wildlife on 1 series that airs in September. The strand takes a close-up look at the behaviours of creatures...

OSF beefs up with orders from Discovery and Nat Geo.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... As Oxford Scientific Films gears up for two new series, for Discovery Networks Europe and Nat Geo International, it is strengthening team its team with a new executive producer. The 10-part series Industrial Revelations Europe for Discovery...

Corporate.(News In Production)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: An animated short to promote the Smart car range was ordered from Bermuda Shorts directors Darren Groucutt and James Thompson through agency Farm Communications. The 60-second promo will be screened at shows...

Flame films Tarrant's travels.(Broadcast)(Flame Group)(Chris Tarrant)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Flame Group is to follow Millionaire presenter Chris Tarrant and his wife Ingrid on a series of travels ha a classic Bentley for an October screenig on ITV. Each episode of the 6x30-minute Tarrant's Way sees the couple following an...

New Moon.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... New Moon has completed a new spot ordered by the COI for the Energy Saving Trust. Dog, directed by Daryl Goodrich, has a man in a draughty house keeping warm in various environmentally unfriendly ways until his dog sensibly ties by the door as...

Maverick Media.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Maverick Media's latest viral is for CDV Software's new game Panzers. The spot shows an highly-pressurised eastern European football manager bring on a Mark t Panzer tank as a sub. The tank was composited on to live action shot at East Dulwich...

Blue Tuna.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Indie Blue Tuna is making a second of its equestrian series Polo Masters for Sky Sports. The six-pan show features highlights from top UK polo tournaments including the Queen's Cup as well as behind-the-scones reports and player-profiles....

Granada and WGBH in drama deal.(Broadcast)
July 1, 2004... Granada and WGBH Boston have signed a deal that sees Granada producing 26 hours of costume drama for the US channel. Granada International holds worldwide rights. Jericho is a four-parter set in the 50s with Robert Lindsay starring as...

Weather and betting channels call in Lambie-Nairn.(Graphics)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Lambie-Nairn has been chosen to rebrand the US Weather Channel Companies and to create a channel identity for a new Sky betting channel. The Weather Channel on and off-air work will extend to the creation of the ad campaign to launch the...

RDF's latest factual entertainment commission for Channel 4.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... RDF's latest factual entertainment commission for channel 4 is Meet the Neighbours, ordered by Julian Bellamy. The 4x1-hour series moves five diverse households from around the country into a purpose-built community over this summmer. Series...

Tiger Aspect's factual department has picked up commissions.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Tiger Aspect's factual department has picked up commissions from ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. Fooling Hitler is a 90-minute drama-doc for ITV1 blending archive, cg and drama to show how Hitler was hoodwinked on the location of the D-Day...

Red Productions has bagged an order for a 6x30-minute sitcom.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Red Productions has bagged an order for a 6x30-minute sitcom starring Johnny Vegas for ITV1. Sioned Wiliam, ITV's head of comedy, commissioned Dead Man Weds, about a reporter on a failing local paper. It is written by Dave Spikey, Peter Kay's...

Company Pictures has teamed with director Antonia Bird.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Company Pictures has teamed with director Antonia Bird's company Four Ways for a 90-minute BBC1 drama about the 1980s miners' strike. Faith centres on two sisters from the same village, one married to a miner, the other to a policeman. William...

ITV London's controller of regional programmes Emma Barker.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ITV London's controller of regional programmes Emma Barker has ordered Waterworks from Mosaic Films, a 6x30-minute series exploring the history of working life on the Thames. Executive producer is Colin Luke and series producer Peter...

Zeal TV has won a second series commission.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Zeal TV has won a second series commission for Bands Reunited which sees old bands brought back together for a one-off gig. VH1 in the US ordered the another 10 episodes of the Chatterbox-created format for airing later this year.

Mansfields.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Mansfields has just completed a new workforce motivational film for lighting brand Thorn. The film aims to explain recent moves within the company. It is to be streamed for use on the web, played on plasma screens at presentations and projected...

@Radical Media.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... @Radical Media director Stuart Douglas has completed the National Blood Service's latest Do Something Amazing campaign featuring a fresh crop of celebrities including Pete Waterman, Gordon Ramsey and Will Carling. The 30-second spot was written...

The Hive.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Hive has put together titles for the new BBC1 primetime show Should I Worry About...? which examines public concerns over issues of modern life. The eight sequences were produced by Sara Clementson. 3D animators were Nathan Laud, Julie...

Hadlow bags BBC4 job.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... After poaching Mark Thompson as its new DG, the BBC has hired another top Channel 4 executive, naming C4 head of specialist factual Janice Hadlow the new controller of BBC4. Her appointment follows the departure of the previous BBC4 boss...

All3Media goes on the hunt for Lion.(Independents)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... All3Media is in "exclusive negotiations" to buy Lion TV, as part of the company's aggressive acquisition strategy. All3Medla, which includes Bentley Productions, Cactus TV brad distributor All3Media International, is expected to have a...

CA funds research at regional indies.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Channel 4 is to hand cash to 12 regional indies to hire researchers for its researcher development programme. The scheme, in its fifth year, allows the indies to hire a researcher for a year and gives them, and the independents they work...

Changing places.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Five's factual entertainment head Liam Humphreys has left his job amid speculation that he'll join old boss Sue Murphy at Channel 4. C4 also lost comedy commissioner Iain Morris, who will concentrate on his writing career. Simon Andreae,...

A fairer deal for UK animation: Jonathan Peel, of Millimages UK and chair of Pact's animation policy group, argues for a UK animation rights fund.(Business)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2004... For many years Britain was western Europe's major producer of animation. Today the landscape has changed: over the last 10-15 years our position as market leader has been badly eroded. Not because we've lost our talent, skills and creativity,...

FID drama deal for IWC.(Broadcast)(IWC Media)(Fremantle International Distribution)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Fremantle International Distribution (FIB) and IWC Media, the new independent formed by the merger of Ideal World and Wark Clements, have signed a two-year first-look deal to develop and distribute the indie's drama programming. The deal...

ER bags deals for Pat and Fingertips.(Children's TV)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Entertainment Rights has picked up international sales for both the new series of Postman Pat and CITV's make-and-do show, Fingertips. Fingertips has picked up its first sales outside the UK, with Germany's Super RTL acquiring the show for...

Monster sales for Granada.(Distribution)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Granada international has scored a raft of sales for its factual entertainment series Monster Garage and Monster House to territories across Europe, North America and Asia including Channel 4 in the UK and Discovery in Europe, Asia and Latin...

Target switched.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Distributor Target Entertainment has sold US entertainment show Switched to Channel 4 to play on T4 and E4. Channel 4 has picked up 50x30-minute episodes of the ABC show, from Evolution and Charles Cook, in which teenagers from different...

C4i scores with Derren Brown.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Channel 4 International has sold illusionist Derren Brown's latest 6x30-minute, Objective-produced series Trick of the Mind to Finland's YLE and South Africa's SARC. YLE also bought the Derren Brown Mind Control series.

UK co-pro is the key for Nat Geo: Christine Kuppens, National Geographic Channel US vp of programming, on how the UK can partner with the US channel.(International)(Interview)
July 1, 2004... How much of your output do you order from the UK? We commission heavily in the UK, as we find a high level of quality and entertaining story ideas generated there--and the opportunity for co-financing. What sort of money can you add...

Thompson's way forward.(Broadcast)(British Broadcasting Corp.)(Mark Thompson)
July 1, 2004... Mark Thompson and the BBC will no doubt have let out a collective sigh of relief last month. Channel 4's decision not to put him on an enforced six months gardening leave after his departure gives the corporation and its new DG much-needed...

The BBC's hasty axing of Kilroy-Silk after his what-have-the-Arabs-ever-done-for-us? rant may have won it brownie points at the time, but indirectly proved yet another thorn in the side of the government.(Month In Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The BBC's hasty axing of Kilroy-Silk after his what-have-the-Arabs-ever-done-for-us? rant may have won it brownie points at the time, but indirectly proved yet another thorn in the side of the government. Somewhat at a loose end (well, there...

Format woes continued to haunt Celador last month.(Month In Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Format woes continued to haunt Celador last month: a multimillion pound legal wrangle with Disney; a $40m legal bill following a high court ruling that it wrongfully refused to renew a licence deal for Millionaire with Indonesia's Ariel...

As 20m viewers tuned in to watch England's 90th-minute opening-match defeat by France on ITV 1, Sky was busy shifting the goal-posts on its freesat contract.(Month In Review)(Sky)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... As 20m viewers tuned in to watch England's 90th-minute opening-match defeat by France on ITV1, Sky was busy shifting the goal-posts on its freesat contract, The satallite's answer to Freeview could be key to the government's analogue switch-off...

Massive Nature.(Storyboard)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: The science and secrets of animal behaviour during annual mass migration is the subject of new six-part BBC1 series Massive Nature. Effects were created at 422 South in Bristol, led by designer Leah Walker...

In it for the Money.(Storyboard)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: In it for the Money sees Flynn Productions' Sam Brady marry the seedy lyrics of electro band Client with some pulsating graphic surroundings. A green-screen performance shoot was blended with hand-held DV...

This 40-second lager saga viral was created by Grigoris Leontiades at Th1 ng to advertise UK Gold's Battle of the Lads weekend.(Storyboard)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: This 40-second lager saga viral was created by Grigoris Leontiades at Th1 ng to advertise UK Gold's Battle of the Lads weekend. It was art-directed at ad agency Mother and produced by Dominic Buttimore.

Puleng.(Storyboard)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Ali Taylor's Puleng focuses on a father-daughter relationship at the end of a terrible drought. It was produced through Nexus for Channel 4 and distributed by Sherbet with characters created in 3D Studio Max...

The Bite.(Storyboard)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: An unemployed lion-tamer and his relationship with a flea is the central premise behind award-winning director Emily Skinner's stop-frame short, The Bite. A pilot was produced through Slinky Pictures with...

Cg shows the benefits of a new post-menopausal therapy for Skyline's US client Pfizer.(Storyboard)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Cg shows the benefits of a new post-menopausal therapy for Skyline's US client Pfizer. David Mack set to work on recreating the female form for the 10-minute animation right down to organ-level, individual...

Production outfit Taiyo Kikaku Tokyo commissioned the UK's Unit 9 to create a spot for Japanese fashion college Mode Gakuen.(Storyboard)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Production outfit Taiyo Kikaku Tokyo commissioned the UK's Unit 9 to create a spot for Japanese fashion college Mode Gakuen. Art-directed by Ben Hibon, the Flash-created anime was then given a final polish...

Grumpy old Prebble.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... I enjoyed your interview with former ITV head Stuart Prebble (Televisual May), especially his demob-happy digs about everything from the structure of the former ITV to the manners of present-day commissioning editors. He managed to make...

The best of luck to UK Post.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... I wish Mike Luckwell all the best with unifying the post-production industry around UK Post (Televisual, June), though I'm not sure that appointing a chief executive recruited from the call-centre business is a good start. Unless call...

Long live corporate promiscuity.(Opinions)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Print and graphics; conferences and exhibitions; design and duplication; ads, promos, advertiser-funded programming... These are some of the areas into which this year's respondents to our Corporate Top 50 survey have diversified while the...

What viewers want: the BBC has placed "audience insight managers" into the heart of its programme development process. Department head and ex-ad agency md Justin Bairamian explains what they're there to achieve.(Interview: Justin Bairamian)
July 1, 2004... It sounds like something from the BBC's John Birt era: a team of marketing and advertising professionals parachuted into the BBC's various production divisions with the aim of "putting audience insight at the heart of programme planning and...

Clear and present danger: Carnival Films partners the BBC and TNT in the US to produce a major international co-production dramatising the global hunt for al-Qaeda.(In production: the grid)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... There can be few more topical subjects for TV production than the West's struggle with al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism. The logical genre for an examination of the post 9/11 conflict has so far been news and current affairs: the BBC, for example,...

Don't look now ... having been forced to diversify over the past dire years, corporate producers are starting to return to their core market, according to this year's Top 50 survey, and tell us of less pressure on staff and a slight let-up in the pressure on budgets.(Corporate 50)
July 1, 2004... Corporate producers around the country may be enjoying slightly lower stress levels this year than last, with the gradual--if cliff-hanging--rise in financial markets giving them confidence to bring one more staff-member on board (now an...

Pay back time: for over-qualified, under-experienced TV newbies entering the industry jungle, training benefits both employers and employees. Ann-Marie Corvin asks what's on offer and who's willing to foot the bill.(Training)
July 1, 2004... You get your degree, demand 25k [pounds sterling] for your first running job, get laughed out the office and end up making the tea for free. Your first payslip comes when, in a mad fit of panic, a stressed-out AP hands you a DV and a list of...

IDP set for Camden Post launch.(Facilities)(Image Dynamic Pictures )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Camden-based production company Image Dynamic Pictures (IDP) is launching an in-house edit facility. Camden Post Ltd will be run by IDP founders, director Stuart Gosling and producer Patrick Holtkamp, with Jen Reznick as head of...

Sonic and Avid tie DVD solution.(Technology)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Avid is to integrate Sonic Solutions' DVD technology across its editing systems. The first product is Avid DVD by Sonic, a 1k [pounds sterling] professional DVD creation tool for the Xpress Studio suite, as well as Media Composer...

Nucoda.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Nucoda has released v2 of its Film Master film finishing tool. New features include a full range of tools for SD, HD and data-file mastering, such as unlimited layer-based colour-correction and real-time 2k playback. It's claimed that the...

Davenport goes to UK Post as ceo.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Gaynor Davenport has been appointed ceo of UK Post--the trade association representing the film and broadcast post-production and effects industry. Gaynor was formerly coo of The Listening Company, an outsourced call management centre of...

Oasis teams up with Funktion for design.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Oasis Television has partnered with design and branding creative Tobin Goffe, who designed the channel identities for Bravo and Living while at Flextech. Goffe has formed Funktion, housed at Oasis, to work alongside the facility's existing...

Resolution refocusses offline.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Resolution, responsible for the post operation of the current Big Brother, has branded a separate division of Resolution Editors. The service is offered to the firm's factual and documentary clients to provide staff editors either on-site...

Bermuda Shorts animates Euros.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Bermuda Shorts' director Martyn Pick is behind the animated promos for BBC Broadcast's Euro 2004 campaign. The 60- and 40-second slots highlight the "artistry" of Europe's best footballers by fusing them to the style of renowned painters from...

Baraka.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Baraka has launched a new offline editing division headed by David Freemantle (left) with Roy Shephard, Caroline Sarin and Ben Luria. The facility says its offline side had previously been operated mere as a support service for the online areas...

YesVideo.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... YesVideo has begun offering an automated mail-order tape-to-disc transfer service which is claimed to take half the time and cost half the amount of rival offerings. It accepts VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C, mini DV, Digital8 Hi-8, 8mm and DVCam and...

Red.(Red)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Red has signed colourist Tim Waller, previously head of telecine at Dublin's Windmill Lane. Waller began his career at SVC grading promos including Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love. Later credits include spots for Guinness, Vodafone and...

Vicon acquires House of Moves.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Oxford-based Vicon Motion Systems, a developer of motion-capture solutions, has acquired LA-based mo-cap studio House of Moves (HOM). Aside from continuing its core work for game and feature film, HOM will act as a new technology test-bed...

Smith heads south for Ascent.(Facilities)(Ascent Media Group appoints Brenda Smith)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The former md of Granada Television, Brenda Smith has joined Ascent Media UK, the post-production and transmission division of Liberty Media Group. As UK group md, Smith will oversee Ascent's creative media management and network services...

VTR restucture.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... VTR-owned graphics and animation house The Hive has merged back into its parent. The Hive will continue to operate under its own brand for broadcast and rifles work with Dave Southwood contining as md. All commercials work will be managed...

Skillset census.(Facilities)(Skillset)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... June 30 is census day for Skillset's fifth annual analysis of the audio-visual industries. The aim is to log changes in the labour force, chart areas of growth and decline and target investment in skills. Forms available at skillset.org...

Siggraph retains the cutting edge; Siggraph remains relevant to UK post argues Mark Burton, of animation developer Kelseus.(The Business)
July 1, 2004... As one of 100k visitors to NAB in April, I could have sourced a complete DI solution, researched my media-asset-management system or HD upgrade options and only scratched the surface. I could attend conference sessions on any new workflow....

Occupied England: Granada's tense family drama, which recounts events during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in WW2, required some 3D recreation from 3sixtymedia and Clear.(Island At War)
July 1, 2004... Written by Stephen Mallatratt (The Forsyte Saga) from an idea by Granada head of drama Sita Williams, the invasion of the Channel Islands in May 1940 is seen through the eyes of three families living on the fictional isle of St Gregory. ...

Big game country: James Burstall, ceo of Leopard Films, devours wall-to-wall telly but with a taste for the monumental: big drama like Gunpowder Treason and Plot, big docs like Raging Planet and then there's The Olympics.(In My View)(Interview)
July 1, 2004... How much TV do you watch? Everything that moves. I have the telly on all day and at home in the background. What do you like to watch best? News, factual entertainment, drama. I watch the first few minutes and stay if it's...

War and more war as Big Brother goes undercover.(Winners And Losers)(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... D-Day celebrations triumphed in the ratings for BBC1 on Sunday 6 June with Dangerous Film's docu-drama D-Day (right), bagging a 4.2m average between 20.00 and 22.00, while TWI's D-Day in Colour attracted 2.4m viewers on ITV1 the next day,...

July TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box.(The End)(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... The Smoking Room from Tuesday 29 June, 21.00: BBC3 Daring setting and daring title for the new six-part BBC sitcom written by Brian Dooley in which the cast (Robert Webb, Paula Wilcox, Debbie Chazen, Jeremy Swift, Siobhan Redmond) put...

Factual.(Foreword)
July 1, 2004... The term factual television covers a lot of ground, from lifestyle and makeover shows like Changing Rooms and House Doctor right through to big budget bells-and-whistles co-productions like The Blue Planet and Pompeii, taking in the...

Lean, not mean: budget pressures mean fewer crew have to deliver the goods, but it's crucial to keep them happy, explains Shahana Meer, director of production at Lion TV.(The Shoot)
July 1, 2004... Putting aside the specialist and the blue-chip, for the majority of factual programmes that dot the schedules the shoot has been stripped down drastically in terms of kit and crew in recent times. "Gone are the days when you used to go out with...

Don't make a crisis ... whether it's Henry V's wars or Henry VIII's love-life, let drama tell the story.(Dramatic Reconstruction)
July 1, 2004... The new buzzword for history documentaries is "immersive history": using drama and cgi to drive a story forward, rather than talking heads with a few bits of dramatic reconstruction thrown in. Laurence Rees, BBC History's creative director of...

Reality rewritten ... straightforward factual storytelling is being revitalised by a number of productions using techniques more commonly seen in drama.(Drama Documentaries)(D-Day)
July 1, 2004... Drama-documentary is a moving target. The recent big linear narratives, shot in a verite style, like Bloody Sunday, Omagh, Stephen Lawrence and so on are rare. These days, television is inventing a whole range of hybrids to explore factual...

Time to tell the story: editing is where your programme starts to take shape, so be well prepared and go to names you know, counsels Pioneer Productions' md Stuart Carter.(The Edit Expert)
July 1, 2004... Don't underestimate the power of editing is the advice of Pioneer md Stuart Carter. "A bad film can be salvaged and become a decent film, a decent film can become a good film and a good film can become an excellent film." So make sure...

Faking it ...(Ethics)(archive)
July 1, 2004... As the British public reels from the images--both real and faked--of the Iraq war, the question of authenticity in factual programming is one that goes to the heart of the viewer-broadcaster relationship. Using archive footage to tell a...

Knowledge is power: Framestore CFC's Mike Milne is happy to explain how computer-generated technology can transform a production--just don't go changing your mind.(The Look)(Computer-generated animation)
July 1, 2004... "Cg today stands for computer-generated animation and digital effects, likely to consist of armies of Roman soldiers, photorealistic extinct creatures, vanished cities, or trips through the human body with microscopic virtual cameras," says...

Have format, will travel ... the fastest-growing TV export from the UK is the burgeoning trade in programme formats, much of it factual entertainment. So how do you get a piece of the action?(Formats)(Chatterbox Partnership)
July 1, 2004... Factual and reality-based formats, from Faking It and Wife Swap to Hell's Kitchen and Grand Designs, have changed the face of British TV for good and, not surprisingly, producers and distributors alike are keen to crack the code that makes for...

Horses for courses: factual is booming, argues the BBC's controller of factual television Glenwyn Benson, but there's a balance to maintain between tradition and innovation.(The Business)(British Broadcasting Corp.)
July 1, 2004... Many contend that serious factual programming is on the back foot in UK TV. Glenwyn Benson, the BBC's controller of factual television, isn't one of them. Benson sees much to celebrate in the output on all channels. There's a chance for...

Directory: camera, post and graphics facilities around the UK, showing contact details and whether they offer camera crew camera kit online offline audio TK graphics duplication design DVD restoration archive.(Directory)
July 1, 2004... THE EDIT/POST AND GRAPHICS LONDON THE 400 COMPANY W12 020 8746 1400 the400.co.uk camera crew camera kit AIMIMAGE CAMERA CREW NWI 020 7482 4340 aimimage.com camera crew camera kit BABZOO CREWS W1 0845...