Features

The emergent virtual production scene in Wales has been boosted by the arrival of two new world-class facilities in recent months, both secured with the collaborative backing of Media Cymru. James McKeown spoke to Media Cymru’s Deputy Director, Professor Sara Pepper OBE, about the consortium’s mission to put Wales on the global media innovation map.

AI tools like Flawless visual dubbing are making a strong case for standard use in Hollywood.

Last week saw the first IBC365 roundtable hosted at NAB. Industry leaders from broadcasters including beIN Media Group, Al Jazeera, Globo, TVN Warner Bros Discovery and Alaraby were joined by representatives from Vertex AI Search (Google Cloud), Host Broadcast Services, QTV, Xansr Media, V-Nova, The Media League and Norigin Media to explore how AI is impacting media personalisation.

The Hell’s Kitchen of Disney’s masked vigilante reboot is given a grungy seventies overhaul by lead cinematographer Hillary Fyfe Spera

Artist led, AI driven, fan-first media show the way forward at a NAB show dominated by tariff-suffering hardware vendors and advertiser weakened broadcast.

Adrian Pennington explores the many and varied lighting considerations for shoots within an LED volume where the ambition is to seamlessly marry virtual and real world environments.

If the UK’s creative industries are to continue to add hundreds of billions of pounds in value to the country’s economy then much will rely on the success of a new network of tech labs exploring the future of media.

Over the past two decades, the over‐the‐top (OTT) industry has undergone a remarkable transformation from a niche experiment to a multi‐billion‐dollar ecosystem, writes John Maxwell-Hobbs.

When it comes to AI, the M&E industry should take a more active interest in the views of its young people if it wants them to remain part of it, writes James McKeown.

New imaging technologies, AI creative mates and wrestlers await visitors to Las Vegas while America’s free press is under attack.