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Innovative prompting

by Brian Larter Issue 92 - August 2014 What prompting trends are you foreshadowing for the broadcast industry?Customers are requiring the need to be more versatile in the way they use prompting solutions in their respective production workflows. Providing hardware and software that will work in all aspects, whether it is in a studio or on location,...

Submitted by Brian Larter

Published 01 September 2014

A new age of teleprompting?

by Jon Hilton Issue 92 - August 2014 Whilst it may not be the first thing on the production agenda, one could argue it is an essential production tool today delivering at least two fundamental production values. Firstly it can save you money by reducing the time required to get that perfect take and secondly it means that your presenter will be wor...

Submitted by Jon Hilton#

Published 01 September 2014

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by Joe WatsonIssue 91 - July 2014So what can I say about the last two years being at Uni? Ive made good friends, people who I hope to see again in the years to come. The experience has been incredible. I admit there have been ups and downs to it like deadlines creeping closer and closer but you work together as a team with the people you meet to me...

Submitted by Joe Watson

Published 01 August 2014

Big hands small head

by Graham Reed Issue 91 - July 2014 A long time ago, in a place that no longer exists, BBC Television Centre, we had large cameras E.M.I. 2001, They were often referred to as the cameramans camera, as at the time they gave what was considered excellent pictures in 625 lines (SD), but of course they suffered from many problems. They needed constant...

Submitted by graham reed

Published 01 August 2014

Powerful New Levels of Discovery

by Drew Lanham Issue 90 - June 2014 For media creators, owners, and distributors, the amount of digital media in their libraries never stops growing as they continue to add new content every day. Those who dont organize and manage their data well are not getting the maximum value out of their archive. Thats why they need easy, accurate, and cost-ef...

Submitted by Drew Lanham

Published 01 July 2014

Skillset Accreditation

by Nick Way Issue 90 - June 2014 After the ITTPs inaugural conference on 27th January this year Skillset very kindly invited a member of ITTP to observe them accrediting a University Film and Television Course. I responded quickly and won the prize¦!I journeyed from work on the Thursday evening to the hotel for an evening meeting so the team could...

Submitted by Nick Way

Published 01 July 2014

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by Joe Watson Issue 90 - June 2014 Once again I am writing to inform all of you what Uni life is like¦ right now one word does come clearly to mind, "hectic". Myself and my fellow students are approaching deadline day for the final year of the course. We\'ve gone through many projects together and we\'ve all had some form of work experience which i...

Submitted by Joe Watson

Published 01 July 2014

The 24 Hour Universtity Television Broadcast Challenge

by Charlie Watts Issue 90 - June 2014 By the time you read this, the University of Portsmouth will have completed a mammoth 24 hour live television broadcast. This television spectacular, beginning at 8pm on May the 29th, was conceived to help celebrate the opening of a new building, raise money for charity, break a Guinness World Record, and to ex...

Submitted by Charlie Watts

Published 01 July 2014

Does lack of training produce inaudible sound

by John Barlow Issue 89 - May 2014 Jamaica Inn just happens to be the latest example of a mainstream TV drama production being broadcast with inaudible dialogue. The reasons vary from production to production but the end result is always an enormous waste of both acting and technical talent along with immense swathes of production budgets. Was it a...

Submitted by John Barlow

Published 01 June 2014

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by Danny Hutchings Issue 89 - May 2014 Quite a lot has happened since my last article here with tv-bay in January!Previously I mentioned how we where working on a 25-30 minute IPTV music show and since then have finished that project with a high merit. We cut the final project up into sections to give to the talent their part of the show; they all...

Submitted by Danny Hutchings

Published 01 June 2014

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by Will Ingram Issue 88 - April 2014 Since my last article in November I have been flat out working on a large range of different projects both for the course and outside. We have recently finished our IPTV studio unit for which we decided to create a music show that would help to promote local artists. The project was very stressful at the start b...

Submitted by Will Ingram

Published 01 May 2014

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by Joe Watson Issue 87 - March 2014 So while my colleagues on the course have been writing about what they\'ve been doing at college, I\'m going to write about what I\'ve been doing out of college which is mainly work experience. Since I started the course back in 2012 I have had quite a few breaks acquiring work experience in the media industry. I...

Submitted by Joe Watson

Published 01 April 2014

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by Rhiannon Chislett Issue 86 - February 2014 Since I last wrote we have accomplished a lot more work within our projects. In December we submitted our 20-minute documentary about local traditional businesses, which has resulted in achieving distinction grades and we have also progressed dramatically with our IPTV project. Before Christmas we were...

Submitted by Rhiannon Chislett

Published 01 March 2014

Training the next generation

by Dick Hobbs Issue 86 - February 2014 At the end of January a new body the Institute for Training in Television Production (ITTP) held its first conference, organised by the publishers of TV-Bay magazine and chaired by former broadcaster Roz Morris, MD of TV News London Ltd. A packed room debated sometimes hotly the issues. Chair of ITTP is freela...

Submitted by Dick Hobbs.

Published 01 March 2014

Tales from the teaching trenches: The offline, online bat...

by Charlie Watts Issue 85 - January 2014 Since the digital explosion of multiple video formats, students of higher education have often faced the process of ingest or capture with gritted teeth, and the drag and drop culture of speed and the \'quick fix\' has inadvertently created indifference to a vastly important part of the post-production proce...

Submitted by Charlie Watts

Published 01 February 2014