The reviews on the web page for this BBC Maestro course on filmmaking featuring 27 video tutorials and 20 exercises delivered over 4 hours by Edgar Wright suggest it’s worth sharing here. What does the course cover? Write your screenplay Get your film funded and work with low budgets Choose the perfect soundtrack Learn to […]
With the launch of the Vision Pro ($3,499 in the US, no UK pricing yet),, with its gestural control, “superior eye tracking” and “infinite desktop“, early on, Apple appears to be targeting the business community more than consumers. The hope and expectation is that the device and platform, with an ecosystem of apps, will be […]
Writing in Wednesday’s Financial Times, former ITV Chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette, currently co-chair of the UK’s Creative Industries Council and council chair at the Royal College of Art, highlighted the fact that if our screen- and music-based, fashion, advertising, publishing industries are to grow, “createch” needs an influx of workers skilled in traditional production, live […]
To help address a yawning skills gap, the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is to offer virtual production technology training to students using a £1.9 million capital grant from the Office for Students, England’s independent regulator for higher education. It’s a first for a drama school in the UK. Training will be […]
Laura Frank is a technologist and writer. From her Linkedin profile: Laura has over thirty years of professional experience as an entertainment technologist. Working across a diverse group of production environments Laura seeks to demystify the technological hurdles to creative visions. This includes merging the toolsets of video, lighting, audio and scenic automation into one […]
Out of adversity and to nobody’s surprise, two of the areas of content creation that have come on in leaps and bounds during the last twelve months are real-time 3D animation and virtual production. These developments have had a big impact on the way VFX artists, animators, graphic artists, film directors and producers work and […]