“Chaps, the BBC’s offering free access to 33,000 sound effects for non-commercial use!”

These commercially licensable recordings are free for non-commercial use, as long as users credit where they came from. “Mixer mode” allows users to “layer, edit and re-order clips from the archive to create your own sounds” to create rich, unique soundscapes. “These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special […]

If you are not already familiar with them, media cartographer Evan Shapiro‘s regularly updated Media Universe Maps reflect the evolving relationships and power dynamics among the world’s media organisations. They show how companies from different sectors — TV, streaming, gaming, and social media — are vying for consumer attention and revenue in a rapidly changing […]

Two new high-speed slow-motion cinema cameras, the Kairos 360 and Kronos 720, from cinematographer Max Losito and camera and optics technician Luca Bonicalza, can shoot up to 720 FPS using 65mm film stock These new devices are based on the Photo-Sonics 70mm camera, which was originally used during the atomic bomb tests that were conducted […]

The Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts is now open. As well as its undergraduate and graduate courses, it will incubate talent through a programme of collaborations and internships’s in the city. “The new Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center marks a monumental step into the future of storytelling and […]

Those who follow The Beautiful Game will be very familiar with the ugly scenes, in stands, living rooms and pubs as well as on the pitch, when a contentious offside decision goes to VAR and some nonsense occurs. The Euros gave us hope, when we saw incontestable instant decision-making in top-flight football for the first […]