Stills, footage and music supplier Getty Images has acquired its second biggest competitor after Corbis, photo and footage house Jupiterimages, for US $96 million.
Nov 30th 2008 23:11 // News // No comments
BBC MG partners with the Hollywood Reporter
The movie stories content provider has struck a deal with BBC Motion Gallery to syndicate its distinctive content.
Nov 30th 2008 22:36 // News // No comments
More than a thousand cultural organisations are making contributions to a European online library, Europeana, a free multimedia venture with content including 80,000 broadcast recordings from the 20th Century.
Nov 30th 2008 22:28 // News // No comments
Getting to grips with the business of research
Steve Bergson reviews a new book that stands out because it tackles a difficult subject in a striking way....not so much a different approach as a new trail being blazed.
Nov 30th 2008 20:55 // General // No comments
With the publication of 'The ethical use of archival visuals: memories of 'Vietnam: A Television History', industry stalwart Kenn Rabin has co-written a book on the often little understood art - technically and morally - of using archive footage in media programming. Here he looks at some of the crucial issues.
Nov 2nd 2008 22:02 // General // No comments
Russian archives nationalised!
Feature films from studios to be pooled in national archive
Oct 31st 2008 23:13 // General // No comments
Demotix aims to mainstream citizen journalism
A new agency is aiming to rep citizen journalists and user generated content suppliers
Sep 30th 2008 22:47 // General // No comments
French national archives has released powerful new footage of the French 5th Republic and the Bhopal disaster in India.
Sep 30th 2008 22:45 // General // No comments
Historic Films Archive Acquires Jackie Barnett Variety Show Library and partners with AP
New York-based Historic Films Archive has now acquired all rights to the television variety show library of the late producer Jackie Barnett and partnered with AP Archive
Sep 30th 2008 22:43 // General // No comments
Clips & Footage has moved to the emergent media hub of Clerkenwell in the City of London. New collections have prompted the move to a space which has a dedicated client viewing area so free viewing onsite is a part of the service.
Sep 30th 2008 22:37 // General // No comments
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Digital Media: Asylum and Smuggler Change Life Into Art for Samsung Mobile
Asylum Design CD Simon Cassels, in collaboration with Smuggler directing team The Guard Brothers via Leo Burnett, Chicago, handled post, VFX, design and animation on an imaginative spot promoting the Android-powered Samsung Behold(r) II mobile phone. The :30 advertisement, Graphic Artist, continues Samsung Mobile's overarching campaign to show off the innovative and practical uses for their smart phones in everyday life.
10 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: Chaotic Post's RED-SCRATCH 4K Workflow for Miracle Fish
With an Oscar Nomination for the Academy Award of Best Short Film of 2009, Australia's Miracle Fish is a Bluetongue Films and Druid Films production. Chaotic Post designed and implemented its leading-edge digital post production using the RED ONE(tm) Digital 4K Camera and ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH 4K Post Workflow.
9 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: INTERspectacular Brings Bold Back to BET
BET has a new look, thanks to the creative genius of INTERspectacular. It is bright, bold, and exudes confidence ? just like the popular programming from the ever-expanding cable network.
9 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm GMT
Creative Pro: Lumix G10 Is Lightest Interchangeable-Lens Digicam with Viewfinder
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Panasonic announced an addition to its Panasonic Lumix G Series, the Lumix DMC-G10, the world's lightest* digital interchangeable lens camera with a viewfinder, which packs a host of advanced digital camera functions designed to be easy-to-use for users new to system cameras. The new compact and portable Lumix G10, which can record High Definition (HD) video in addition to high-quality still images, joins the Lumix DMC-G2, also introduced today, as part of the Panasonic Lumix G Series.
9 Mar 2010 | 9:09 am GMT
Creative Pro: Chat with the Design Technology Expert
In a recent entry on his Real World Illustrator blog, design software expert Mordy Golding recalled an AOL Vector Forum he participated in way back in the day. "Every Tuesday evening," Mordy wrote, "the Vector Forum would have a live one-hour chat, where we'd pick a topic and discuss all things vector. I learned so much from those chats, and I was also able to share what I was learning with others."
8 Mar 2010 | 9:41 am GMT
Creative Pro: Recreate a Bygone Era with Photoshop Brushes
The following Photoshop brushes are free for downloading on the DeviantART Web site. Click on the hyperlinked text or the sample image to go to the relevant page on the site.
Note that each sample image includes only a small selection of the brushes at each link -- there's lots more to discover!
Postcard Messages Brush 01 by ~illiteratekniferack:
8 Mar 2010 | 9:11 am GMT
Digital Media: Content Insider #138
You've probably spent a lot of time in front of the TV recently...Super Bowl, Olympics, American Idol. Next up Futbol's World Cup...now there's going to be a series everyone watches. You've seen your share of pretty good to decent to OMG ads as well. Ah there's the rub. You only looked. You didn't interact with them. You know watch the ad and jump online to visit their web site, tweet your friends, go to their Facebook friends page, visit their YouTube ads. Maybe they're expecting too much of us...ya think???
4 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: Photoshop CS4 Image Adjustments in Depth: Tonal values
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses correcting tonal values, which are the darks, lights, and midtones that make up the underlying tonal structure of every image, whether it is a color photography or a black and white image.
3 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm GMT
IBS: Great drama - but can you hear what they're saying?
TV Audibility group is a major independent project to investigate problems of audibility in TV programmes.
20 Feb 2010 | 12:18 am GMT
IBS: SIS LIVE OBs propose pension scheme closure
Only two years after being bought by SIS Live OBs (part of Satellite Information Services), former BBCTV OB staff have learned that SIS propose to close the pension scheme April 2011
6 Feb 2010 | 5:57 pm GMT
Louise Willcox MIBS describes some of the challenges of being a soundie, and takes the opportunity to get a few things off her chest! This isn't an article about some new gadget, this is my personal rant. It will serve as therapy for me and, I hope, provide some amusement for you, too.
6 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am GMT
IBS: Olympus LS-10 - What's it all about?
John Willett MIBS reports on his experiences with a diminutive field recorder. There seems to have been a massive growth in inexpensive hand-held flash recorders over the last couple of years, especially in the sub-£400 price range.
5 Feb 2010 | 5:56 pm GMT
IBS: Focus of Radio Mic Campaign Switches to Compensation
Malcolm Nelson MIBS explores the latest developments concerning the Digital Dividend. Since 2003 the UK Government has been preparing for a 'digital dividend': auctioning off a segment of radio frequency spectrum for new commercial uses
5 Feb 2010 | 1:54 pm GMT
Creative Pro: Free E-book on Motivating Creative People (Including Yourself)
Mark McGuinness has written another e-book. His first, Time Management for Creative People, is already available as a free download on CreativePro.com.
The new book is titled How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself). Download the PDF here.
14 Jan 2009 | 7:36 am GMT
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