All articles by Adrian Pennington – Page 13
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Industry TrendsInterview: Netflix VP of Production Innovation Andy Fowler
Netflix talks to IBC365 about growing its virtual production facilities and sharing the experience with the industry.
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Industry TrendsNo Time To Die: Behind the Scenes with cinematographer Linus Sandgren
James Bond is back in No Time To Die, but the 007 agent is wounded. Cinematographer Linus Sandgren delivers the emotional punch with 35mm, 65mm and IMAX film.
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Daily NewsBehind the Scenes of The Guilty with sound mixer Ed Novick
The location sound recordist is normally incognito on set. Not so in the case of The Guilty, a thriller unusually reliant on audio to convey its story and made crazily complex by being shot under Covid conditions.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: We Are Lady Parts
Equal parts subversive, silly and sweet, Working Title’s music comedy We Are Lady parts is about a Muslim female punk band - called Lady Parts - who are on a mission to find a lead guitarist and maybe, just maybe, get a proper gig. Cinematographer Diana Olifirova shares her experiences ...
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Industry TrendsThe Greatest Show on Earth: How OBS plans to immerse viewers in the Tokyo Olympics
With the world’s TV viewers cooped up for a year and most spectators barred from attending, never has there been a more pressing need for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to put on the greatest show on Earth.
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Industry TrendsTokyo Olympics 2020: BBC and NBC reveal remote production plans
With the 33rd summer Olympics set to take place in Tokyo later this month, broadcasters around the world are fine-tuning their production plans and preparing to pack their schedules with hundreds of hours of live sport. NBC and the BBC speak about their plans.
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Industry TrendsTokyo Olympics 2020: Discovery reveals scale of Olympic plans
Discovery’s ambitious plans for covering the Tokyo Olympics include a virtual studio Cube to connect presentation with remote athletes and provide opportunities for pundits to analyse performances and explain technique using augmented reality.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: The Tomorrow War
During a World Cup football game in Miami, time-travelling soldiers from the year 2051 appear on the pitch with an urgent message about a global war against a terrifying alien species. Cinematographer Larry Fong ASC explains how he shot the Amazon Prime action movie.
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Industry TrendsHow Arena TV brought advanced remote production to The FA Cup Final
The BBC’s coverage of the FA Cup Final in May was remote produced from Wembley by production teams working at Arena TV’s newly outfitted production hub and utilising CoreTX. This new Arena solution is a decentralised and cloud-based production service that includes a Production Centre based at Arena’s HQ in ...
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: The French Dispatch
Transforming Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic aesthetic into a visually consistent physical format presented a series of challenges for the film’s production designer and director of photography.
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Industry TrendsHow component shortages are threatening broadcast kit supplies
Broadcast equipment vendors need customers to adapt their buying cycles as semiconductor shortages bite, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry TrendsUHD adoption: A question of perception?
With the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament and Summer Olympics both natively captured in 4K, many may have expected a surge in UHD coverage. But six years after the launch of the first 4K channels is the broadcast industry lacking in enthusiasm for UHD?
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Industry TrendsUEFA goes remote at scale for Euro 2020
UEFA Euro 2020 was always going to be a logistical exercise given the tournament’s pan-continent, 51-match, 4-week schedule, but nothing will surely be as tricky as this edition, which was delayed by a year.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: In The Heights
Cinematographer Alice Brooks and production designer Nelson Coates capture a colourful Latino vibe for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upper west side story.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Intergalactic
The VFX team behind Sky Original science-fiction Intergalactic drew on nail varnish, quantum mechanics and the odd ‘space chick’ for the design of key sequences.
