All articles by Adrian Pennington – Page 12
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Industry TrendsSuper Bowl LVI: How NBC is preparing for Super Gold Sunday
The Super Bowl is usually the biggest day in the US broadcast calendar but this year it touches down in the middle of 2,800 hours of Beijing Winter Olympics coverage, so what will NBC do to make it standout?
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Industry TrendsUHD, immersive audio, 5G and virtualised OBs: all the broadcasting innovation at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games
Beijing 2022 will offer an exciting glimpse into the immersive and virtualised future of Olympic broadcasting, as revealed by tech leaders at host broadcaster OBS.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes of Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley
Director of photography Dan Laustsen explains the thinking behind the seductive visuals of the neo-noir feature.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Licorice Pizza with editor Andy Jurgensen
Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age drama blurs reality and drama, explains editor Andy Jurgensen.
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Industry TrendsInside Discovery’s Winter Olympics broadcast plans
It will have been just 180 days since the closing ceremony in Tokyo when the curtain is raised for Beijing 2022 on 4 February, with Discovery’s teams working round the clock to prepare for another marathon live production.
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Industry TrendsCES 2022: Displays move beyond the screen
Smart TVs are no longer the centre attraction at CES but a new wave of innovations capable of projecting movies, games and augmented reality either with or without screens are pointing to the future of display technology.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Writer and director Joel Coen’s latest project is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth which will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on January 14. Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel explains how it was shot.
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Industry TrendsWhat to expect in 2022
Apple will make the next streaming move; media goes wild for NFT; Avatar 2 kicks the metaverse into mainstream and England win the World Cup? Not all of these predictions will come true…
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes of Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections
Cinematographer Daniele Massaccesi explains how the visual representation of The Matrix has been updated, including the iconic ‘bullet time’ effect
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Industry Trends2021 in review: Vendors and technology
In our second review of the past 12 months, we look back at supply chain issues, mergers and acquisitions, the rise of remote production and the dawn of the metaverse.
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Industry Trends2021 in review: Platforms and broadcasters
WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery, AVOD in the media mix, service surfing and C4’s uncertain future blurred the business lines in 2021.
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NewsCES 2022 Preview: Space, the final commercial frontier
Global chip shortages notwithstanding, CES presents the future of space tech and portals to the metaverse.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Boiling Point
Stephen Graham is a chef with a simmering temper in a feature length one-take kitchen drama filmed at a real-life restaurant. Director Philip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis explain how it was done.
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Industry TrendsHow Qualcomm is targeting the mobile metaverse
Qualcomm, the world’s biggest supplier of chips for smartphones, is the latest company to make a play for the metaverse.
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Industry TrendsThe evolution of post to a cloud-first model
With traditional working practices upended, rising costs and technological advances, startup post production firms are eschewing physical facilities in favour of a cloud-first approach.
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Industry TrendsNvidia: Virtual worlds will crop up like websites
Nvidia thinks it has the fabric for building the metaverse on a larger than planet scale.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes of Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast
Kenneth Branagh’s biographical family drama reclaims the city in an era where the streets had no name. Editor Una Ní Dhonghaíle speaks about cutting the drama.
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Industry TrendsDune: Behind the scenes with cinematographer Grieg Fraser
“Fear is the mind-killer,” says Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides in Dune. The hero must use his mind to overcome his fear. It’s a central theme of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel and one that also resonated with DP Grieg Fraser, ACS ASC, who is taking on the hallowed science fiction tome ...
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Industry TrendsHow the Battle of Lake Changjin is set to top 2021 box office
Chinese release The Battle of Lake Changjin epitomises the use of the term ‘epic’, with some three directors, six DoPs, 70,000 extras and a record domestic box office performance.
