We live in an era of declining traditional linear TV consumption. Millennials and Gen Z-ers rely on mobile devices, YouTube and TikTok for their entertainment and information. How do broadcasters and other news outlets go about engaging with them in a meaningful way without undermining or trivialising the medium, asks Kevin Hilton, writing in TVB […]
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Scorsese, De Niro and New York’s five new studio complexes
With thanks to Jodi Nelson-Tabor for bringing our attention to the Time Out story on Linkedin This Autumn, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will open the doors of its 45,000 square foot Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center on the new 35-acre Industry City site on the Brooklyn waterfront. The facility occupies an […]
Camera geeks, prepare to be overwhelmed
The Sphere Studios Big Sky ultra-high resolution camera system is used to capture images displayed on the interior and exterior screens of the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas. The system features the largest cinema camera sensor in the world – 18K – “that is almost 7x larger and 40x higher resolution than the full-frame sensors […]
Artificial intelligence isn’t foolproof
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen assert that it is impossible to develop AI tools that will always be stable The main purpose of the research was to describe the problem in the language of mathematics and establish exactly how much noise must algorithms be able to withstand, and […]
European Commission orders CO2 impact calculator for content production
With thanks to Mick Broderick of FNL Media Solutions for sharing this announcement on Linkedin … The European Commission is paying for a calculator to be developed that assesses the CO2 impact (emissions, carbon footprint) of the audio visual content creation industry on the environment using a standard methodology. The consortium leading the project comprises […]
New documentary ‘Eno’ tells a different story of the man every time it’s screened
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival (18-28 January) hosted the premiere of Eno, a new documentary charting the career of one of the music industry’s greatest living innovators. The film, by Gary Hustwit and generative AI specialist Brendan Dawes, is unusual in that a new version is created every time it is watched, using the amusingly anagrammatic […]