Episodes
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Defected Records chief business officer James Kirkham talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the dance label's hugely popular weekly Virtual Festivals, which kicked off as soon as the UK went into lockdown. The 12-hour live streamed events, which went out on a plethora of social media platforms every Friday night, brought in an audience of millions of dance music fans each week. Each Virtual Festival brought together DJs from around the world, who each had an hour to spin discs from their home, before the next DJ kicked off their set. The complexity of how each set was filmed ranged from a single iPhone camera stream to a multi-camera setup, including drones. Kirkham explains how it was all put together and what the future for Virtual Festivals might be post-lockdown.
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Senior colourist Paul Ensby began his career in 1990, following his father and grandfather's footsteps into the film lab. He started as a 35mm laboratory feature timer and moved to digital grading in 2001. Since then, Ensby has notched up an impressive credit list, including Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Asif Kapadia's Oscar winning Amy and Josie Rourke's Mary Queen of Scots. After some years working at a number of other facilities, Ensby has now rejoined Technicolor where be began and spent the majority of his career. He speaks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about his life as a grading artist, and the changing role from the film lab to digital grading and working through the coronavirus lockdown.
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
With TV studios on lockdown, Eurosport presenter Orla Chennaoui turned to Zoom to film interviews with a who's who of British athletics for Eurosport's re-runs of the London 2012 Olympics next week (24 May-31 May). Her interviews, with the likes of Mo Farah, Adam Peaty, Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington, Greg Rutherford and Bradley Wiggins, were all recorded with the athletes at home, recollecting their memories of the hugely successful Olympic Games. This came with its own challenges, and also a number of key benefits, as discussed in the podcast. The entire production was created remotely – it was filmed and edited remotely, the archive clips were all accessed remotely, and some re-commentating was also done remotely. Impressively, the production values still manage to mirror that of a typical studio-based show. Orla discusses how it all worked in this 11-minute chat with Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton.
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Freelance lighting cameraman Graham Howe on making the most of lockdown
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton talks to freelance lightning cameraman Graham Howe about what he’s doing to keep busy during lockdown. With the Covid-19 pandemic cancelling almost all his future bookings, Graham decided to make the most of his new-found free time to learn new skills that would be useful for his job. So, he’s learned how to live stream content; he’s completed Health and Safety courses he’s been trying the find the time to do for years; he’s learned how to expertly use a DJI Ronin-S gimbal and a motorised slider; and he’s also found the time to put the Sony FX9 camera through its paces. You can hear how he got on with it all here.
Thursday May 14, 2020
Football archive Dugout co-founder Sebastian Gray on content demand during lockdown
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
Sebastian Gray, co-founder and SVP of football content platform Dugout talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about what the company does, how it does it, and the growth in demand for previously undiscovered archive football clips.
Dugout is co-owned by 10 world-leading football clubs (including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City) and offers access to the archives of 100+ football clubs from around the world. It receives 400m views a month of its football content.
Wednesday May 06, 2020
VFX giant MPC's CEO Mark Benson on the demand for CG/VFX during lockdown
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Mark Benson, CEO of Academy Award winning VFX house/creative studio, MPC, talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the changing needs of commercials producers during lockdown.
With Covid-19 severely limiting options for live shoots and with the tone of advertising messages necessarily adjusted to be appropriate for the global circumstances we’re living through, there are many challenges facing content creators.
MPC is seeing a shift to CG/VFX work to replace what might have previously been live components, and Benson talks about how it is collaborating with clients to ensure they get the most out of this approach, and that its honed to suit their needs and budget.
He also talks about the impact of lockdown on MPC, both from a practical and business point of view, and also how its Shanghai office has all but reverted back to business as normal after the lockdown was lifted in China.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Gorilla TV managing director Rich Moss and Jigsaw24 sales director Rupert Watson join Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton for a chat through the tech enabling post-production houses to transition overnight from office-based to cloud-based remote home working.
The companies work together at the cutting edge of post-production, with Gorilla having a long history of innovating in new workflows to continually enhance its service to clients.
This informative, educational discussion explains the practical benefits of products such as Avid Edit on Demand, Deja Edit, and vMix in enabling post houses to ensure business as usual and the same high-end service levels while their staff work from home.
The podcast also looks more broadly at cloud-based working and how remote collaborative working will be further enhanced over the coming months as the industry beds in for an extended lockdown.
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Blast Premier esports CEO Robbie Douek talks to Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about the appeal of esports – what draws fans to the games, and how esports can capitalise on the cancellation of live conventional sports. Blast Premier runs a year-long series of tournaments that are typically held in huge arenas with thousands of fans watching the gaming live at the venue. With the pandemic putting a halt to this setup, Douek reveals how the Blast Premier events have transitioned to online, with the players based at home. He also presents his ideas on how esports and the Blast Premier series can continue to grow in a post-pandemic world.
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
BT Sport chief operating officer Jamie Hindhaugh explains how the broadcaster has created a 'virtual BT Sport studio', taking 400 people out of its physical studios in Stratford and replacing the studios with decentralised production to enable home working.
With the system up and running, BT Sport is able to continue to broadcast presenter-led live shows with each of the presenters and the crew working from their homes.
Hindhaugh talks through the new programming it's creating during lockdown and how it can implement long-term changes based on its reaction to the pandemic.
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker superstar and Eurosport pundit joins Eurosport UK senior director of production and broadcast Jamie Steward to discuss the snooker content Eurosport is rolling out to replace the postponed World Snooker Championship. It includes exclusive vodcasts from O'Sullivan and fellow snooker players, re-runs of classic matches and twitter polls to choose an archive match from the World Snooker Championship finals each day.
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
In this revealing and insightful interview, LADbible Group's head of programming, Ben Powell-Jones talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the content his team is creating for the world-leading social media group. Powell-Jones discusses the innovative use of data by the LADbible Group to determine success and to influence future edits and original programming strands, as well as the style and editorial focus of the social media giant's content around coronavirus.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Senior colourist Jet Omoshebi on how her role has changed during the Covid-19 crisis
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Renowned colourist Jet Omoshebi (senior colourist at Goldcrest) talks with Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about working in a near empty Soho facility during the coronavirus pandemic, and about how the crisis could lead to long-lasting changes in the post-production industry, and TV production in general.
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Sport and news presenter Gavin Ramjaun - presenting sports during lockdown
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
BBC presenter Gavin Ramjaun talks with Broadcast Sport and Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how his role has changed during the coronavirus pandemic. He also talks about his men's health and positivity podcast Manzilla and how as a tech novice he managed to set up his own recording studio. Ramjaun also offers his own words of wisdom on how to stay positive during lockdown.
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Football statistician, broadcaster and author Duncan Alexander talks to Broadcast Sport and Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how data never fails to unearth new stories from the football archives; how Stats Perform is ramping up its engagement with football fans through its immensely popular OptaJoe twitter account, during the coronavirus pandemic. The future for OptaJoe and how AI is playing a key role in extracting new data from old games.
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Grant Phillips, executive producer and director at Sunset+Vine talks to Broadcast Tech/Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about how weekly BT Sport series Scottish Football Extra has morphed into Scottish Football Extra From Home during the coronavirus outbreak. The series is being produced remotely, with content captured on mobile phones, sent to editorial via WeTransfer, edited online and broadcast weekly at 6pm on BT Sport.