Michael Burns

Sep 15, 2024 | ibc.org | Michael Burns

There are many visually attractive, accessible and innovative stands at IBC2024, and the IBC Stand Design Awards celebrate the very best among them all. All stands across the IBC Show were considered and yesterday the four winners were announced across four categories.  Each was presented with the coveted award by Dan Cherowbrier, Chair of the Jury for the Stand Design Awards, who said: “A wide congratulations to all this year’s winners in the Stand Design Awards.

Aug 27, 2024 | ibc.org | Michael Burns

The Edinburgh TV Festival, the annual shindig of the movers, shakers, and changemakers of the British television industry, took place last week and change was very much on the schedule, reports Michael Burns. The headline issues facing the TV industry in the UK are significant – high inflation, market contraction, shrunken ad revenue for commercial broadcasters, freelancers being out of work for long periods, and firms ranging from indies to hire companies to VFX facilities going under.

Aug 21, 2024 | ibc.org | Michael Burns

BBC Studios’ Kasia Jablonska stresses the importance of the underlying tech in FAST, and how understanding local markets and picking the right commercial partnerships can give you the edge. Kasia Jablonska is looking forward to IBC. As you might expect from the Director of Digital and On-Demand for EMEA at BBC Studios, Jablonska modestly confesses to being “quite techie”. She says: “I like seeing the newest technological developments.

May 9, 2024 | ibc.org | Michael Burns

Last week, Deepa Subramaniam, Adobe’s Vice President of Product Marketing for Creative Cloud, was excited to reveal Adobe’s Firefly generative AI model at Adobe MAX London. Michael Burns questions her about the fears and hopes this new influence will have on post production. “Firefly debuted last March.

Jan 9, 2024 | televisual.com | Michael Burns

The story of a world-class footballer who falls in love with a Spice Girl is very well known, or is it? Michael Harte, ACE, reveals his editing process and the decisions that helped make Beckham another huge hit for Netflix. Akey sequence, among many in Fisher Stevens’ Beckham, the short but enthralling Netflix series about the footballer, takes place during the 1998 World Cup. England’s David Beckham is sent off after kicking out at Argentina’s Diego Simeone.