All articles by Adrian Pennington
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Executive Interviews
SMPTE: Transparency and education the keys to managing AI
SMPTE President Renard T. Jenkins calls on artists, lawmakers and the tech community to educate themselves about AI and to do so in sync with each other or fear and misuse will fill the gap.
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Industry Trends
MPTS: British drama and production jobs under threat
At MPTS, speaker after speaker including the director of Mr Bates vs The Post Office voiced fears for the future of the UK TV industry.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Civil War
In Alex Garland’s action thriller cameras are a weapon of truth, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
GenAI will generate more questions than answers
What are the limits for using GenAI in production and how capable is it of creating skilled and engaging content? IBC365 learns more about the recent findings from Pact’s AI working group.
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Industry Trends
NAB 2024: Show Review
A busy NAB showed above all that innovation in media and entertainment hasn’t slowed with exhibits on the show floor incorporating AI, prioritising net-zero and integrating with the cloud.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: 3 Body Problem
The cinematographers behind Netflix sci-fi series explain why the sun was such an important element in the show’s VR game world and how they played the story’s fictional science straight down the line.
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Industry Trends
NAB 2024 Preview: An industry in constant flux
NAB will witness an industry convulsing with the ‘everything everywhere’ of AI, the emergence of spatial entertainment, the parallel social ‘Creator Economy’ and attempt to explain blockchain. Disruption is the name of the game.
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Industry Trends
How did Johnnie Burn become an Oscar-winning Sound Designer?
Oscar-winning Sound Designer Johnnie Burn on why being a runner is still the best route to success and how he creates the unsettling unorthodox worlds for Yorgos Lanthimos, Jordan Peele and Jonathan Glazer.
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Industry Trends
Behind the scenes: Silo
Award-winning Cinematographer David Luther had to draw on all his experience to help create a convincing backdrop for this dystopian short-story adaption. Adrian Pennington reports.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Masters of the Air
Masters of the Air takes place over the skies of Nazi-occupied Europe and at the very least doesn’t flinch from the horrific conditions faced by men in metal tubes flying five miles above ground, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes - Dune: Part Two
The highly-anticipated sequel to the epic Dune: Part One had the challenge of communicating the deeper narrative of the original novels all the while creating a standalone film, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
Oscars 2024: WWII narratives feature heavily at this year’s Academy Awards
Oblique and powerful takes on the Second World War dominate at the Oscars, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
MWC 2024: 5G still awaits killer app as mobile industry looks to AI
AI was the buzz at Mobile World Congress 2024, but making a return on their 5G investment was at the forefront of operators’ minds. Adrian Pennington reports.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The experience of cinematographer Pierre Gill on Disney series ‘Percy Jackson’ showed that lighting for an extensive shoot in a Volume is still work in progress, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
Momentum builds behind content credentials to combat AI deepfakes
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), is an organisation developing technical methods to document the origin and history of digital media files, both real and fake.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: The Zone of Interest
The cinematic adaptation of a Martin Amis novel juxtaposes mundane everyday life with the horror of Auschwitz using thermal vision and audio, among other narrative devices, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
The Oscars 2024 Nominations: Editing, cinematography and VFX
IBC365 takes a close-up at the editing, cinematography and VFX nominees in the running for this year’s Academy Awards.