Category Archives: news

Great presentation of stills and footage content here from Corbis Motion – they say: ‘Shot on location using professional crews and cars, the sensational still image galleries and thrilling high-definition videos deliver the excitement of stock car racing from every angle.’ click it to view the clip ↑

London based media licensing and content management company Screenocean are now representing news footage from The Press Association. The largely unexplored Press Association Collection comprises over 60,000 clips, with brand new content being added daily includes royalty, sport and entertainment features as well as press conferences, red carpet and interviews.
Screenocean say: ‘With some News collections only available after 14 days, why wait? The Press Association collection is cleared and ready to be used within 24hrs of its original broadcast.’ ‘The Press Association Collection is now available to licence in EMEA through Screenocean, where it can be searched, viewed, clipped and requested via our website.’

‘What is restoration?’
• a one day conference to celebrate, discuss and analyse the range of work being carried out to preserve the world’s film and video heritage
• issues covered: ethics, techniques, commercial pressures, principles, presentation, formats, the canon, audiences
• case studies of work done by archives, film laboratories, facility houses and other specialist digital operations, as submitted to the FOCAL International Awards in association with AP Archive
• key skills and technical achievements will be commended during the informal lunch
• followed by the FOCAL International Awards Gala ceremony in the evening to present major awards including Best Restoration / Preservation Project and Best Title plus an Award to be presented to Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures EVP (below), for Outstanding achievement in the field of film restoration and preservation.

FOCAL INTERNATIONAL RESTORATION / PRESERVATION CONFERENCE supported by the BFI
2 May 2013, BFI Southbank – Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XT
Full details and to Book a place here

The Associated Press has opened a bureau in Yangon, Myanmar (also known as Burma), the first international news agency permitted to operate full time in the country, which has relaxed its longtime restrictions on media amid a wave of democratic reforms.
Six multiformat journalists will staff the new AP bureau. Among them is Aye Aye Win, an award-winning correspondent who has reported from her native country for the AP since 1989. She took over the job from another AP veteran — her father, U Sein Win — who had covered the country for AP for 20 years and who was jailed by a previous government. Aye Aye Win was honored for courage in 2008 by the International Women’s Media Foundation.
Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll said: “We take great pride in our independent and impartial reporting, and coverage of Myanmar has been a priority for many years. A full-time, multimedia bureau staffed by talented local and international journalists will enable AP to provide even more coverage of the historic changes underway.”

Associated Press announced today the promotion of international video chief Sandy MacIntyre to director of global video news. Sandy will be responsible for the newsgathering and production of 250 video journalists worldwide and 50 others who contribute to the video report.

AP say: As the top video news executive for AP, MacIntyre will oversee the video operation’s two hubs, in Washington and London. In addition, he’ll be the lead liaison with AP’s video product owners and an important face of the AP with video customers around the globe.
His promotion was announced today by Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll.
“Sandy’s excellent leadership of the international video news operation is well known _ indeed, legendary,” Carroll said in a memo to staff. “He has been a force for competitive, compelling video news since he helped forge AP’s entry into television in 1994.”
For a decade prior, at UK broadcaster ITN, he ran daily foreign news coverage and spent considerable time in the world’s trouble spots, including the Mideast and the killing fields of the former Yugoslavia. He’s also directed coverage of six Olympic Games and six World Cups.

Most recently, as AP’s director of international video news, MacIntyre led the news portion of a sweeping, digital transformation that upgraded AP’s worldwide video production, newsgathering and distribution to high definition.

Photo Credit: AP Photo

Photo agency VII have released this latest video feature shot by contributing photojournalist Ed Kashi via the agency’s online magazine project which gives readers ‘unprecedented insight to the work of the world’s leading photojournalists’.
View more features at VII The Magazine

A great reminder from AP here about how the viewing figures and reach of major sports events is growing at a massive rate due to digital delivery.
‘The AP unveiled a sequel to its popular 2012 sport video at Sportel in Rio de Janeiro, outlining how the second screen experience — combining TV and mobile devices — has become a firm new reality in the world of sport.’
The video connects the dots of the changing media world among news organizations, advertisers, social media, digital devices and sport events worldwide — and how all of the changes are resulting in quickly evolving content consumption habits.
View the original The Big Game video

The FOCAL International Awards, hosted by television history presenter Dan Snow, will be presented in association with AP Archive on the evening of the 2nd May 2013 at a glittering award ceremony at the Lancaster London Hotel.
Awards details shortlist here
Book tickets here

Twitter have acquired mobile phone video specialist software company Vine. Vine enables users to share short looping videos across Twitter and Facebook accounts, the iPhone App is free and available now.
They say ‘Vine: a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos. Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity. Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create. Posts on Vine are about abbreviation — the shortened form of something larger. They’re little windows into the people, settings, ideas and objects that make up your life. They’re quirky, and we think that’s part of what makes them so special.
Here’s the free Vine App

Notes:
• You don’t need a Twitter account to use Vine (but signing up is a little quicker if you do!)
• After installing Vine on your device, you can sign up using an email address or sign in with your Twitter account.

The Huffington Post UK photo team tweeted a Vine loop reaction to Andy Murry’s tennis win here