VISUALISING SUCCESS
Dock10 is one of the UK’s leading television facilities. It recently announced the appointment of two junior virtual studio developers in a bid to tackle the skills shortage in virtual studio production. The move represents an extension of the facility’s in-house training scheme for TV studio craft talent, established back in 2020. “At Dock10, we’ve seen an explosion in demand from programme makers wanting to incorporate virtual elements in sports, entertainment, children’s and factual TV,” states head of production innovation at Dock10, Richard Wormwell. “But there’s a skills shortage in virtual studios in the UK. We recognise it is our responsibility to help grow the talent pool and invest in practical training.” Key advantages to the training programme include the potential for sustained, meaningful on-the-job experience, working on multiple different shows at the studio. SOLVING THE SKILLS SHORTAGE
Based in Bergen, Norway, Everviz offers cloud-native charts visualisation SaaS. It recently announced that Fonn Group had invested in the company, in a bid to add to its portfolio of cloud-native production and journalistic tools designed to overcome M&E industry challenges. “Everviz has seen strong organic growth over the last few years, and we believe Fonn Group’s investment will benefit our customers by allowing us to scale our product development to another level, launching new killer features,” described Everviz co-founder and CEO Håvard Tveit. Everviz’s solution allows users to create and publish charts, maps, tables and layouts onto multiple platforms from just one user interface – all in a web browser application.
STRIDES IN SUSTAINABILITY
EVS has been awarded a silver medal for its sustainability performance from Ecovadis, the world’s biggest provider of business sustainability ratings. The Ecovadis sustainability assessment evaluates how well a company has integrated the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) into its business and management system. Its methodology covers seven management indicators across 21 sustainability criteria in four themes: environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. Driven by the vision that ‘sustainability is not what we should do, sustainability is what we need to be,’ EVS has been focused on delivering
HANDING OVER THE VP BATON
A school in Kokkola, Finland called the Kpedu Media School recently invested in a virtual studio infrastructure to lead the education of new broadcast and media talents – in that region and beyond. An increasing trend among academic institutions, the main goal in equipping the school with a virtual studio environment was to provide students with cutting-edge technology at the forefront of the media industry. That decision in turn was part of a larger development programme designed to boost the community and economy. Because of that programme, Broadcast Solutions Nordic has designed and delivered a 50 sq m
virtual set covered by four PTZ cameras all mounted on
robotic systems by Technopoint. Virtual production itself runs with Zero Density’s real-time broadcast compositing system Reality Engine, which leverages Reality Engine Ampere workstations. Part of the EU-funded project’s goal is to use the set for product presentations and workshops with nearby companies to support the local business community. After the system was fully implemented, broadcast solutions engineers trained the Kpedu staff and students to work independently and thus become self-reliant with the technology.
a truly positive impact for environmental and social concerns for many years.
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