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3SixtyMedia turns to FORscene for The Lakes
3SixtyMedia is using web-based video platform FORscene for the post-production of The Lakes.
The rushes of the show were digitised simultaneously into Final Cut Pro and the FORscene server at ITV Manchester.
Having it on a server meant that multiple members of the production team could access the pictures simultaneously.
This included staff on location, who had internet-based access to the rushes, so producers and directors could log and edit without heading into an edit suite.
Forbidden, the company behind FORscene claims the technology helps speed up workflow, as rough cuts of the production can be made before the filming has even been finished.
“We provide a wide range of services and are always on the lookout for advanced technology that can deliver new benefits for our clients. We set up FORscene quickly and it was easy to use. The interface is surprisingly powerful and our clients have found it extremely useful on this production during the shoot and in the edit,” said David Boyle, head of post production at 3SixtyMedia.
Once filming had wrapped, the edits made on location were exported as XML files and then reconnected with the full resolution media file in post production.
The Lakes is a Shiver Production for ITV.
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This is an excellent system, I saw them demo it at IBC and I feel it is the way forward.
A few digitising stations/craft edit and loads of people working remotely or from home reducing the number of edit suites and increasing productivity.
I think someone has got their kagools in a twist in illustrating this story on How Do.
The Silver TV production The Lakes is described thus:
"The Lakes will be presented by Rory McGrath and will show the characters and beauty of the Lake District over the past summer - welcoming tourists from the UK and abroad, holding weddings, opening new hotels and mountain rescues.
It will be an “epic, yet affectionate observational series that will reveal what it’s really like to live and work in one of the UK’s most famous beauty spots and holiday destinations”.
As opposed to Jimmy McGovern's The Lakes that was: "an exercise in torment when the eyes of blame fall easily upon Simm's character after the accidental deaths of three schoolgirls. Stoking the flames of a series of secondary explosions in waiting are a pair of affairs, one adulterous, the other complicated by religion.
"The series examines morality in a small community in the British Lake District embracing sex, death and Catholic guilt. It was critically acclaimed when first broadcast, but often controversial, due to its hard-hitting portrayal of an immoral English sub-culture, and scenes of sex and violence."
I'm sure the Cumbrian Tourist Board are dead chuffed that How-Do chose to remind readers of the latter!
[You're right, we got the press release and assumed that in today's money-saving world of television making that editing rushes on location etc was usually the stuff of drama, rather than documentary. Less a Google image search issue than a lack of information about what The Lakes is on the press release. We do however stand corrected and hope the Cumbrian Tourist Board prefers the new picture - ed]