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Red TX Records For War of
The Worlds' Iconic Musical
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roadcast audio specialist Red
TX has recorded the audio for
a new DVD of Jeff Wayne’s iconic
musical version of The War of The
Worlds.
For this version, Wayne
incorporated new interpretations
of the original tracks and a new cast
starring Irish actor Liam Neeson as
George Herbet.
Red TX was commissioned to
handle the audio recording during
a performance at London’s O2 Arena
by Universal Visual Programming.
Producer Dione Orrom said: “Red
TX understood the history of this
project, having recorded Jeff
Wayne’s Musical version of The War
of The Worlds before in 2006, so Tim
Summerhayes and his team were
fully aware of the complexities of the
show. There were a large number of
tracks involved and complex time
code issues that required the skills
of an experienced audio team.”

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echnicolor has set the style
for the post-production of the
second series of Charlie Brooker’s
dark satire tragicomedy, Black
Mirror II.
Produced by Zeppotron, Black
Mirror’s second run comprising ‘Be

Charlie Brooker’s dark satire
tragicomedy, Black Mirror II.

GBR: Vision247 has acquired
Fora, a Slovenian IPTV software
solutions company in a deal
valued at more than 2 million euro.
Fora developed Perception,
the innovative telco IPTV
platform, delivering unique high
performance video on demand,
network personal video recording
(PVR) and Time Shift systems.
The acquisition expands
Vision247’s role as a provider of
over the top (OTT) internet delivered
television services to incorporate
triple and quad play models for large
telecom operators globally.

Orad Celebrates
20 Years Up
Liam Neeson narrates the War of The Worlds production

Red TX Director Tim Summerhayes
added: “The secret to getting this
project right was close collaboration
between ourselves, Visions OBs,
which was handling the video
recording, and the artists’ sound
crew, which was headed by Front
of House Sound Engineer Simon

Honywill and Systems Technician
James Breward (Brew).”
The DVD of the show will be
available later this year with
screenings at digital cinemas around
the world, starting in approximately
100 cinemas in the UK from April 11.

Technicolor Styles Brooker’s ‘Black Mirror II’
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Vision247 Acquires
Fora In 2M Deal

Right Back’, ‘The Waldo Moment’
and ‘White Bear’ has a big name
cast including Hayley Atwell
(Captain America, The Justice)
Jason Flemyng (Lock Stock and The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
and Lenora Crichlow (Being Human).
Each of the three 50 minute
suspense dramas, created
and written by Charlie Brooker,
humourist and creator of E4’s Dead
Set, are standalone stories loosely
connected by their satirical humour
and bleak reﬂection on modern life.
Across all three episodes,
Technicolor’s editing and design
teams worked in conjunction with
Painting Practice, who designed

the VFX, animation, motion graphics
and title sequence for the series.
Together, they completed around
300 VFX shots to ﬁnalise the unique
look of the films.
The range of VFX work on the
second ﬁlm in the series, ‘The Waldo
Moment’, included compositing
animation to the side of a moving
van, adding an audience to a TV
studio, television inserts and
compositing futuristic message
boards onto giant wall screens.
In ‘Be Right Back’ some of the
VFX work consisted of multiple
laptop and phone inserts, safety
rope removal, and compositing of
imagery into a digital easel.

ISR: Broadcast graphics
solutions provider ORAD is
marking its 20th anniversary.
Since its inception in 1993, Orad
has developed a wide range of
products, offering broadcasters
state-of-the-art graphics, media
asset management and video servers.
The company’s technology has
been used in just about every major
sports production including four
Olympics. Its enhancement solutions
have garnered more than a dozen
major industry accolades.

Mosart Installation
First In Australia
NOR: Australian News Channel (ANC)
has moved its leading 24-hour news
channels onto Mosart automation.
Mosart Medialab has announced
that ANC is equipping its Sky News
National, Sky News Business, Sky
News Weather, and Sky News
New Zealand control rooms with
Mosart newscast automation.
The deployment includes the
installation of four systems, three
for Sydney, Australia and the fourth
for Auckland, New Zealand.

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