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News Review By Holly Ashford
Lipsync gets Starred Up: LipSync has provided equity investment and full post services on the award-winning film Starred Up. The Sigma Films production opened in the UK last month and tells the story of a troubled teen who meets his father in prison. Starred Upwas graded on Baselight by colourist Adam Inglis at LipSync, and was the third film he had graded for director David Mackenzie. “The range of colour and light within the original material gave us a lot of storytelling and mood possibilities,” commented Inglis. “This prison is a place of sensory overload and I like to think that rather than just looking real, it feels real too.” The sound mix was created on an AMS-Neve DFC console by Robert Farr, LipSync’s re-recording mixer. He explains: “The film was shot in a real prison, and David [Mackenzie] wanted to use the original recording as far as possible to capture the real sounds of the building. It was a very challenging and rewarding project to work on.”
www.lipsyncpost.com
Sequence Post completes Channel 5 drama Sequence Post has completed the end-to-end post of the 10-part crime drama, Suspects, created and produced by Newman Street, part of FremantleMedia UK for Channel 5. Suspects is the first original
drama for Channel 5 in several years, and aims to take a different approach by having the actors improvise dialogue and using filming techniques and a directorial approach usually associated with factual programming. Sequence Post was contracted
Space Seasonin lift-off with Prime Focus Prime Focus was selected by Arrow Media to complete post work on two documentaries for Channel 4’s Live From Space Season (pictured above). Prime Focus’s finishing team also post produced multiple VTs for live transmissions from National Geographic and Channel 4. The interactive TV event featured astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata conducting a tour of the International Space Station, showcasing experiments from the floating laboratory. Tim Waller graded the VTs and documentaries in Baselight. Waller commented: “I came to work at Prime Focus for the level of quality work that comes through the doors so it is utterly thrilling to work on such an outstanding programme. When I graded Moon I was challenged with stylising an out of this world environment and now I am actually grading real life space footage.”
www.primefocusgroup.com
The Voicelive finals at Elstree with BBC S&PP BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP) is providing full production gallery facilities for the live finals of The Voice. Broadcasting live at Elstree, The Voice (pictured above right)
will take over the Studios’ George Lucas Stage 1, and make use of a purpose-built gallery. With direct access onto Stage 1, the production, sound and lighting galleries are equipped with high definition technology.
www.bbcstudiosandpostproduction .com
to provide the entire post solution, with post production supervisor Ben Foakes using DaVinci Resolve as the ingest and transcode platform. Foakes oversaw the finishing
process at Sequence Post’s central London boutique by colourist William HW Read.
www.sequence-post.co.uk
BroaMan extends routing matrix for French parliament: BroaMan has completed the second phase of its communication infrastructure project for French TV network La Chaîne Parlementaire.
This has seen the extension of the system to further locations and creation of a centralised routing system by redeploying old devices with further interfaces from BroaMan. BroaMan has delivered a Route66 as the centralised router and two MUX22 units, with a third supplied later. “Route66 is configured to combine five satellites — integrating the older V3R-FX- INTERCOM-SDI units with the new MUX22 devices. Every channel that appears on the satellite is available in Route66 and can be routed to any of the outputs,” said BroaMan application engineer, Maciek Janiszewski.
Both the V3R-FX-INTERCOM-SDI and MUX22 devices are equipped with the Clear-Com board, offering four 4-wire intercom ports each, while a X6R-FX-INTERCOM provides local audio and intercom I/O in the central location.
www.broaman.com
Baselight getsUnder the Skinof Scarlett Johansson film: Dirty Looks, the London colour grading studio specialising in Baselight grading for independent movies, carried out the finish of Under the Skin— the latest movie from director Jonathan Glazer, starring Scarlett Johansson. Visual effects were completed by Dirty Looks’ creative partner, One of Us. As effects developed, they were regularly conformed and worked on in a 2K grading environment. Dirty Looks’ Tom Balkwill explained: “Combining technical resources allowed a quick turnaround between creative departments and helped us deliver what this film needed, not only quickly but to the highest standards — the efficient workflow from VFX, aided by the Baselight integration, meant quality never had to be compromised.” The film was shot in Glasgow and rural Scotland on the ARRI ALEXA and the small cinema-quality digital camera, one-cam.
www.filmlight.ltd.uk
www.tvbeurope.com April 2014
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