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A new virtual production facility, Futures Studio, is opening at Royal Holloway, University of London, offering creative technology businesses a space to innovate, showcase their work and collaborate with industry experts and world-class researchers.  The launch was celebrated with an event attended by leading partners and industry including Sky, BT and Limax Studios, and featured ... Read more The post Unique VP studio opens at Royal Holloway to support creative technology businesses appeared first on British Cinematographer.

The Royal Television Society (RTS), Britain’s leading forum for television and related media, has awarded the recipients of its 2024 bursaries. This year marks 10 years since the bursary schemes were launched, which aim to widen participation in, and access to, the media industry by supporting talented students from low-income backgrounds who are pursuing careers ... Read more The post Royal Television Society presents 2024 undergraduate bursaries appeared first on British Cinematographer.

University of the Arts London (UAL) and Sony have partnered on a specialist Virtual Production (VP) research stage, housed within the Fashion Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI) at UAL’s new East Bank campus in London. This state-of-the-art facility features a Crystal LED wall powered by Brompton Technology’s advanced LED processing, delivering exceptional visual quality and ... Read more The post UAL becomes the world’s first to install Sony’s Crystal LED VERONA appeared first on British Cinematographer.

Too Wild, based in the Timbavati Game Reserve, are offering the first-of-its-kind, immersive wildlife filmmaking course to help build the next generation of wildlife filmmakers. Living in the heart of South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park, the students will learn to capture the wild as never before. Together we have the power to inspire change ... Read more The post Too Wild productions making a difference in the community appeared first on British Cinematographer.

Following the successful acquisition of MetFilm School by the BIMM Group earlier this year, BIMM University, which specialises in music, film, performing arts and creative technology, has announced its latest plans. BIMM University will be the only awarding body for all new MetFilm School undergraduate and postgraduate students from September 2025. This move places BIMM ... Read more The post MetFilm School merges with Screen and Film School and launches MetStudios appeared first on British Cinematographer.

The Royal Television Society (RTS) is launching a unique online course that will help to plug the TV skills gap and fast track careers. Launching later this month (September), the RTS Mini MBA, a first in the industry, is aimed at media professionals who are focused on broadening their skillset and progressing their careers, as ... Read more The post RTS launches mini MBA to supercharge understanding of TV and streaming appeared first on British Cinematographer.

Alfalite, Europe’s only LED display manufacturer, announce that the University of Greenwich, located in the borough of Greenwich in London, England, is now using an Alfalite Modularpix Pro 1.5 ORIM VP XR LEDWALL for its new centre of excellence for education and research in audiovisual content and process. This centre, which has been named SHIFT ... Read more The post University of Greenwich chooses Alfalite displays appeared first on British Cinematographer.

Nyal Mueenuddin, a UWE Bristol graduate, has won a prestigious 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Award – a global competition which celebrates the next generation of talented and innovative storytellers. Nyal won the BAFTA Student Award for his documentary ‘When the Floods Come’, which tells the stories of people living with flood and drought along the Indus in Pakistan. ... Read more The post Graduate filmmaker wins BAFTA Student Award for documentary appeared first on British Cinematographer.

Originally only seen on sets of large-scale Hollywood productions like The Mandalorian and most recently in Barbie and Dune blockbusters, virtual production (VP) is becoming an important element of the modern day education. Leading institutions like Sunderland University, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and Solent University Southhampton have embraced Brompton LED processing as part of ... Read more The post Brompton Technology helps CJP advance in UK education market appeared first on British Cinematographer.

Final Pixel, an innovation agency & creative filmworks with verticals across innovation, production, worldbuilding and training. The company  launches a new Final Pixel Academy training course for DoPs who want to learn Unreal Engine as a pre-vis tool working in virtual production. Final Pixel Academy as the training arm provides solutions internationally to deliver stage ... Read more The post Final Pixel launches VP course for DPs and FP+ Global Membership Platform appeared first on British Cinematographer.