Many of us are pining for our regular cinema fix. Here, lifted from The Guardian in full, legendary editor and sound designer Walter Murch gives us his thoughts on why. Cinema is a mass medium. And since we film-makers want to get as many people as possible to see our films, we try to find […]
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It’s a good time to take an online security course
This article was written by Larry Seltzer and first appeared on the HPE Enterprise.nxt microsite on 23 April 2020 Got some extra time on your hands? Put it to good use and advance your career by taking an online security course from these free and paid options. We’re more than a month into the coronavirus […]
Europe tentatively re-opens for media production
The Hollywood Reporter brings us updates from several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland and France, where a return to film and television production is being allowed under strict new COVID-19 guidelines. Some of the hygiene guidelines are near-universal, such as two metres (6.5 feet) social distancing between crew members and the use […]
NeuralFace morphs creepy AI faces to Triggernometry
AI artist Mario Klingemann has used GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) and specifically NVIDIA’s StyleGAN2 to create NeuralFace, a deepfake video that morphs a collection of artificially generated faces pulling a range of increasingly unsettling expressions in sync to Kraftamt’s 2014 track “Triggernometry”. The results are fairly disturbing and the bets are open on whose next edgy promo […]
Informed Sauce podcast 1: “I quite like Borussia Mönchengladbach”
It’s the first new Informed Sauce podcast. What do we have in store? Regulars Will Strauss, Editor of SVG Europe, and HPE’s Matt Armstrong-Barnes are on to discuss the return of top-flight football to our TV screens this weekend in the shape of the German Bundesliga. How are outside broadcast companies going to cope with […]
Keeping BT Sport’s Early Kick-off on-air in lockdown
Ahead of tomorrow’s first new Informed Sauce podcast, here’s a flavour of what we’re covering – the return of top-flight football to our TV screens this weekend, courtesy of the Bundesliga, and how televised games might be produced in the future Sunset & Vine’s Executive Producer of Premier League and Europa League football Stephen Booth […]