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Grading BBC Sounds
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The BBC has launched its new personalised music, radio and podcast app with a campaign that follows one listener’s journey from meeting Kylie Minogue in a lift to Idris Elba on a bus.
BBC Sounds offers a single home for the BBC’s thousands of hours of audio content, including live and on-demand shows and special music mixes curated by artists.
BBC Creative, the broadcaster’s in-house creative division, took the brief to agency Riff Raff Films and Megaforce directing duo of Charles Brisgand and Raphaël Rodriguez who in turn brought on board regular collaborators Time Based Arts.
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| bbc
| grading
| bbc sounds
| davinici
| resolve
| blackmagic
| editing
| Simone Grattarola
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The Benefits of LED Lighting in Broadcast
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The humble LED studio light has come a long way since its introduction. In the early days adoption was low, while scepticism that the quality and functionality of LEDs could rival traditional tungsten lighting was high. There has been a period of adjustment, challenges (particularly around light quality and manufacturing) overcome and the broadcast, media and entertainment industry has gradually grown more accepting of the technology and its benefits.
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| rotolight
| led lighting
| celbro studio
| bbc
| mtv
| trt
| anova pro
| Rod Aaron Gammons
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80 years of broadcast and how far we have come
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The BBC delivered its first continual public broadcast 80 years ago, that included coverage of the BBC Television Orchestra and famous musical comedy star Adle Dixon. This was a world first heralding the beginning of continuous broadcasting in the UK and kicking off the broadcast industry's constant search for new ways to improve the accessibility and quality of television content. |
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| sam
| snell
| bbc
| Neil Maycock
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Health and Safety gone mad
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The first true broadcast television service started 80 years ago, on 2 November, 1936. Its home, famously, was Alexandra Palace, a vast and really rather run-down building on top of Muswell Hill in north London. Originally opened in 1873, and re-opened in 1875 after a catastrophic fire, it was built primarily as an entertainment venue. Indeed, it was built as "a palace of the people", a usage of that expression a century or more before most of us associate it. |
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| ally pally
| bbc
| alexandra palace
| dick hobbs
| Dick Hobbs.
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IBC with the BBC
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IBC is an exciting opportunity for us in BBC R&D to share with the world the work we've been doing on a range of technologies.
Those attending the conference will be able see much of the work we are doing on new forms of content and workflows and get an understanding of the object based principles for broadcasting which we are working towards, enabled by Internet Protocol (IP). |
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| bbc
| ibc
| ip
| Jon Page
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An end-to-end solution
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BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP), a commercial subsidiary of the BBC, provides an end-to-end solution for what we refer to as post-post-production. Our services include preservation of media in our Front Porch DIVArchive and an end to end service that includes digitization of film and tape, quality control, technical review, compliance editing, restoration and remastering, transcoding (including viewing copies and proxies), file delivery, and hosting. |
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| bbc
| s&pp
| post production
| Front porch DIVarchive
| Kevin Shaw
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Wild about Hovercam
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At the beginning of 2008, Hovercam were contacted by the BBC to work on a new series of programmes focusing on garden makeovers. The working title at the time for this project was Wild SOS to be headed up by Nick Knowles. As the project moved on the name soon changed to Wild about your garden. |
| Tags: hovercam
| helicopter
| wild about your garden
| bbc
| nick knowles
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Strictly successful
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It has been hard not to spend most of my time thinking about the BBC recently.
While it may be the very epitome of the public service broadcasting ethos, it is bizarre to watch one BBC programme unleash invective on another BBC programme, lashing people who probably buy each other coffee on a daily basis. How did John Humphreys feel going to work that Saturday morning, knowing that he was going to have to give the toughest of his tough interviews to a hapless bloke who was nonetheless his boss.
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| bbc
| strictly come dancing
| newsnight
| evs
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Gold all round
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In my ramblings in the January edition of TV-Bay, I offered some predictions for the year, which included the following:
“Television coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics will be extraordinary, capturing all the skill and dedication, elation and heartbreak of the world’s finest athletes. But somewhere in 29 days of intensive, multi-channel broadcasting there will be one tiny error, and that will be all that the popular press focuses on.”
I cannot speak for the Paralympics as I am writing this before they open, but I can say that I was more or less wrong in my prediction for the Olympics. Because there was virtually no criticism of the television coverage, certainly in Britain.
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| dick hobbs
| olympics
| bbc
| opening ceromony
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Revolutionary Rotolight Anova Shoot at BBC Studios
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BBC Studios: White City The Worlds Most Advanced LED Floodlight the Rotolight Anova(www.rotolight.com) was recently the light of choice for a shoot at the home of British Television, with Philip Nash, Multi-Award Winning Photographer and Videographer(www.nash.net) shooting both Video and stills with one of the worlds leading models. |
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| rotolight
| annova
| bbc studios
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Who wouldnt consider a career in Live sports?
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There are many diverse things in this industry which give me a buzz but I think that live sports coverage is probably pretty near the top of the pile. With a 17yr old son considering his career options I thought it time to introduce him to the world of live sports and SIS LIVE were kind enough to give us a quick tour behind the scenes on the second Monday of this years Wimbledon. |
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| sislive
| wimbledon
| oscar
| bbc
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Thanks for the memory
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If I need to impress on someone just how old I really am, I explain that my first computer had 32kB of Ram. Then we go through the you mean 32 meg no, I mean 32 k routine. It does seem implausible that, while I managed to write letters on my BBC Model B, today I need half a million times the memory to bash out columns for TV Bay. |
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| iss054
| bbc model b
| domesday project
| iabm
| data storage
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BBC Academy
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Todays broadcast industry depends on a mobile workforce of skilled professionals. And in the YouTube age where anyone can upload a film, what distinguishes the professional from the amateur? In short - great training! |
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| bbc academy
| journalism
| production
| editorial
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Supporting the RED
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James Cullen was working as a studio cameraman for the BBC when he was asked by television quiz show favourite CJ de Mooi to shoot a promo for him. The brief was to showcase CJs enthusiasm for the Porsche 911 Carrera, and Cullen knew that the production standards had to match the engineering excellence of the car. |
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| red
| red camera
| iss034
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Mixing with the wildlife on Big Cat Live
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A crew of 73 travelled out from the UK for 6 days of BBCs Big Cat Live programmes from Kenya early in October 08. Most of us were flown in on single engine cessnas which took us from Nairobi across the great Rift valley & down towards Tanzania. From the moment we touched down on the rough dirt & asphalt landing strip in the middle of the Masai Mara we knew it was going to be a totally different experience to any other programme we had worked on.
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| Tags: big cat live
| iss026
| vision mixer
| masai mara
| nairobi
| bbc
| N/A
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