The Media Manufacturing & Expertise Present (MPTS), the UK’s largest occasion for the printed media, manufacturing and know-how trade, units the agenda as soon as once more with a wealthy, various and highly effective line up of audio system and content material.
With a fair larger emphasis on rising applied sciences, MPTS this yr hosts a brand new AI Discussion board in addition to the Media Expertise Convention, in partnership with SMPTE UK.
Working 15-16 Might 2024 at Olympia London, the MPTS’ acclaimed free seminar programme options greater than 250 audio system throughout eight theatres of keynote displays, masterclasses, panel discussions and academic periods.
Charlotte Wheeler, Occasion Director, stated, “The standard and vary of our speaker programme is second to none and underlines the breadth and richness of the UK’s world class artistic industries. The media professionals who’ve curated MPTS 2024 share your considerations and pleasure for the trade’s future which we have now mirrored in an prolonged partnership with SMPTE to launch the Media Expertise Convention as a part of the Media Manufacturing & Expertise Present.
“One know-how stands out for its heated impression at this second which the brand new AI Discussion board is designed to coolly unpack with rational methods in your craft and enterprise. There’s a lot to see, take part in and alternate with friends at MPTS. That is your platform and we can’t wait to see you there.”
The unmissable Opening Keynote is a Director’s Masterclass that includes 4 administrators with latest hit reveals, together with James Hawes (Sluggish Horses) and James Robust (Mr Bates vs The Put up Workplace). Government producer and writer Sam McAlister provides us the low down on how Prince Andrew’s notorious interview with Newsnight was developed into Netflix function Scoop. Natasha Bondy and the group behind ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Put up Workplace ship a manufacturing masterclass and historian and broadcaster Dan Snow tells us how he created the massively profitable Historical past Hit podcast.
4-time Winter Olympian and TV presenter Chemmy Alcott joins MPTS to debate how sports activities broadcasting is driving optimistic environmental change as a part of BAFTA albert’s Sustainability Collection. There’s a significant state of the nation regarding freelance expertise led by BECTU, the Movie & TV Charity and ScreenSkills.
Broadcaster Marcel Theroux joins MPTS to debate his latest hit documentary The Playboy Bunny Murders as a part of a wider have a look at the present panorama of factual programming on the Manufacturing Theatre.
Additionally, in an unique ‘In Dialog With’ is Peter Ettedgui who will talk about his unbelievable physique work, which incorporates Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Guests will discover first-hand accounts of methods for making artistic decisions underneath strain, with cinematographers Ashley Barron ASC, Evelin van Rei NSC and Alana Mejía González. Additional professional views on the state of factual come from Windfall Movies, Firecracker and Arrow Media to call a number of.
Contemporary from profitable the Academy Award and Bafta for the sound design of The Zone of Curiosity, Johnnie Burn headlines/keynotes the Audio Theatre to speak about his distinctive method to this exceptional movie. Find out how the BBC/Glastonbury Competition group brings the sound, spirit and vitality of this unbelievable competition to thousands and thousands of individuals and go behind the scenes of Netflix’s ground-breaking documentary sequence World Struggle II: From The Frontlines.
Famend editor Paul Machliss (Child Driver) shares insights into the craft and methods of movie modifying in a hearth dialog on the Put up Manufacturing Theatre. Right here you can too study from the award-winning Residence Photos group concerning the distinctive ACES workflow behind BBC sequence The Gallows Pole. There are masterclasses on VFX and grading, that includes audio system from Image Store UK, Halo Put up Manufacturing, Molinare, Ghost VFX and BlueBolt; plus take a better have a look at text-to-video app Sora with UK Display screen Alliance.
The Digital Manufacturing Theatre shines a highlight on the whole lot you might want to find out about utilizing digital manufacturing in your work. Highlights embody an unique have a look at the VP methods utilized in catastrophe film and survival thriller No Means Up, with Government Producer Steve Jelley and in Apple TV+’s Hijack, with VP Supervisor Shannon Harvey.
The State of the Nation in Broadcast Expertise will uncover the most recent developments in transmission and the mixing of AI and machine studying in content material creation and distribution, with audio system from IMG, Gravity Media and Image Store. Broadcast Tech interviews will shine a highlight on the ladies who’re pioneering modern applied sciences of their organisations, together with Zoe Kennedy (BBC) and Lowri Davies (Premier League Productions). AV Journal hosts a session trying on the convergence of broadcast and AV.
Head to the AI Discussion board for professional steering into how you can flip AI to your benefit. Supported by as much as the minute analysis from GlobalData, periods right here study the impression of AI on the workforce, the brand new abilities and coaching required to work within the enterprise and case research on AI in use in media. Director and producer HaZ Dulull presents important recommendation on how indies can use Gen AI ethically and legally.
Bringing collectively senior know-how leaders and specialists within the discipline of broadcasting and innovation, the two-day Media Expertise Convention Leaders Day is keynoted by Simon Farnsworth, CTO, ITV who will define ITV’s transformation from conventional know-how to a dynamic Digital Enablement Technique. The present state of the printed trade is analysed by the BBC’s Mark Patrick and Channel 4’s Andy Bell within the session The Put up-Transformation Period and there are in-depth explorations of Color Science, Contribution and Distribution and AI for Media. Entry on fifteenth Might is by invitation solely. Day two of the occasion on sixteenth Might is open to all MPTS attendees.
Wheeler added, “That is the one trade occasion the place all of the content material is totally free to attend. That’s a precept we worth as a result of we consider that whether or not you might be an award-winning EP, a seasoned freelancer or aspiring to interrupt into the trade we will all study from and help one another. We sit up for welcoming you all in Might.”
Full particulars about MPTS 2024 and the speaker programme may be discovered at www.mediaproductionshow.com/programme.
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