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29 Feb 2012 at 12:00 by Leigh | Category: TV Production
Tags Budgeting, Production Managers
First off, here are some jokes:
How many runners does it take to change a light bulb?“Shall I send a bike?”
So how many directors does it take to change a light bulb? “I don't know, what is the light bulb’s motivation?”
How many production managers doe...
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28 Feb 2012 at 11:59 by Leigh | Category: TV Production
Tags File Based, Managing Technology, Video Production
Thanks to budget constraints and the rapid advance of technology change, the job of the modern day television producer or production manager (PM) is not what it once was.
Today, alongside their many other responsibilities, the people at the top of the production chain are being forced to get t...
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24 Feb 2012 at 11:58 by Leigh | Category: TV Production
Tags Making TV, Video Production, Work In TV
There has to be a reason I'm sure. People rarely "fall" into working in TV or film. After all, let's be honest, there are lots of jobs out there which pay more, don't involve such crazy hours or levels of stress. Nor do they have the same levels of competition just to get your first job. Plus, th...
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22 Feb 2012 at 11:57 by Leigh | Category: General
Tags Classical Music, Live Stream, Simultaneous Broadcast
This Saturday will see the culmination of a project to improve classical music audiences as Aframe helps stream a live concert on the Guardian website and to a series of North East venues.
Five months after Aframe was awarded a prestigious contract from NESTA, The Arts Council...
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14 Feb 2012 at 11:55 by Leigh | Category: TV Production
Tags Events, Sales, Tv Production
As it’s the first day of the UK’s biggest Broadcast Technology show, Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) at Earls Court in London, I got to thinking about how relevant shows like it are in the age of web demos and online or instantly downloadable software. Their days have to be numbered right?
The tw...