Lights, Camera, Action!

Lights, Camera, Action!

When we are not hanging with James Cameron and Vince Pace, or sharing hilarious on-site stories with a genuine Emmy-award winning technical genius, we are working with film-makers closer to home. Right at home, actually.
Polly Thomas is a Sony award winning freelance radio drama producer who lives in Hebden Bridge, and popped in to Nutclough Mill [...]

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Snow hope for some

Snow hope for some

I went skiing once. I was about 13 and it was on a dry ski slope at a Pontins holiday camp in the UK. I fell over and scraped the skin off my arm because I was wearing a t-shirt as it was the middle of summer. When I got back home I regaled my [...]

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Seeking future recording technologies today

Seeking future recording technologies today

I woke up this morning – “dur, durdle, dur, dur” – to find that, overnight, Jay Jennings of socialsounddesign.com has asked the audio world quite a big question – “What is the future of recording technologies?”:
Great strides have been made in the field of sound recording over the last couple of decades. We’ve seen (in [...]

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3D TV in focus

3D TV in focus

It seems that every other film released these days is in 3D, which is a positive sign of the technology really taking off. Unfortunately this is not true to the same extent in the televisual arena. I have talked about certain discouraging aspects of 3DTV before, such as cost hindering content production and restrictive glasses making consumers shy away [...]

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Calrec

Lights, Camera, Action!

Lights, Camera, Action!

When we are not hanging with James Cameron and Vince Pace, or sharing hilarious on-site stories with a genuine Emmy-award winning technical genius, we are working with film-makers closer to home. Right at home, actually.
Polly Thomas is a Sony award winning freelance radio drama producer who lives in Hebden Bridge, and popped in to Nutclough Mill [...]

Jan 27, 2012 13:20

Surround

Limited Aura-3D 11.1 release for ‘Red Tails’

Limited Aura-3D 11.1 release for ‘Red Tails’

To recreate the dizzying experience of aeriel combat, the new World War II action drama ‘Red Tails’, about a crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, is being released in selected cinemas in Barco’s Aura-3D 11.1 surround sound format.
Initially, the film’s producer, Rick McCallum, was encouraged to do an 11.1 mix so [...]

Jan 13, 2012 8:54

Outside Broadcast

Snow hope for some

Snow hope for some

I went skiing once. I was about 13 and it was on a dry ski slope at a Pontins holiday camp in the UK. I fell over and scraped the skin off my arm because I was wearing a t-shirt as it was the middle of summer. When I got back home I regaled my [...]

Jan 25, 2012 10:49

Industry News

Seeking future recording technologies today

Seeking future recording technologies today

I woke up this morning – “dur, durdle, dur, dur” – to find that, overnight, Jay Jennings of socialsounddesign.com has asked the audio world quite a big question – “What is the future of recording technologies?”:
Great strides have been made in the field of sound recording over the last couple of decades. We’ve seen (in [...]

Jan 24, 2012 8:43