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studionews UNITED KINGDOM BBC training boost By Tanyel Gumushan
CREATIVE SKILLSET has announced that the BBC Academy will be offering five new Creative Skillset-funded initiatives for freelancers in the UK. The five-day studio courses are aimed at improving key industry skills for freelance practitioners in studio
Creative Skillset and the BBC Academy: improving key skills
sound, studio lighting, studio camera craft and vision mixing. Courses on offer include ‘high-end
craft training’ and ‘comedy studio craft skills,’ the latter of which will be hosted in partnership with a leading European media provider, Dock10. The course will run in different
locations around the country in order to create a wider pool of talent with different key skills so as to improve overall employability in the industry. Kate O’Connor from Creative Skillset says: “The TV Skills Fund exists to ensure that freelancers are supported by offering heavily subsidised training to take up new opportunities
or to develop new skills where we have identified a shortage.” “The BBC Academy will deliver
world-class training and by supporting these initiatives we are developing a diverse and skilled freelance community, which in turn will contribute to the growth and success of TV production in the UK as a whole,” she adds. The BBC Academy’s head of business
development, Andrew Carmichael says: “We are delighted that these initiatives, with funding from Creative Skillset, will make our training available and affordable to broadcast freelancers working across the UK.”
www.bbc.co.uk/academy
Findlay: Shaping it up in his Sonnox world
UNITED KINGDOM Big time help from Sonnox By Murray Stassen
GRAMMY-NOMINATED sound engineer Ben Findlay is mixing the audio for two Peter Gabriel concerts filmed at the O2 Arena in London in October 2013, ahead of their release as a cinema feature and DVD. According to Findlay, Sonnox
Oxford plug-ins are playing a fundamental role in the mixing of the project: “Most of the EQs in this mix are Oxfords, and the Inflator is my
secret weapon. I use it primarily on Peter’s vocal channel, to give it a presence that dominates the mix. It’s proved extremely effective in bringing extra life to the drum bus as well. “When we played the show mix back
to Peter we put the ‘Warmth Function’ on the Dynamics plug-in across the entire mix, which he loved. The whole show has that process added to it in varying degrees. That made the sign-off process much easier!”
www.sonnox.com
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