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Thursday, 29th April 2021
Friday, 25th November 2016
Wednesday, 5th October 2016
November 2016
Award winning post production company “The Farm” becomes a sustaining member of The Association of Motion Picture Sound.
September 2016
AMPS would like to Welcome our new Sustaining Members to the AMPS Family - Zoom, Sounds in Sync and Audio-Technica.
Wednesday, 5th October 2016
Wednesday, 5th October 2016
Wednesday, 5th October 2016
AMPS are please to annouce that Sustaining members 'Sound In Sync' and 'Audio Technica' are now offering a significant discount to members. You will need to be a logged in member in order to obtain full details.
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Sunday, 1st February 2015
Tuesday, 28th January 2014
Graham Hartstone from AMPS remarked, "Its a fantastic achievement for Raoul and Ania to have made it onto this list and the AMPS Council wish to heartily congratulate you both and wish you very well in the judging." A further notable achievement is that six of the seven Verna Fields nominees study at NFTS (an AMPS Sustaining Member), whilst another NFTS graduate film 'Sleeping with Fishes' has a BAFTA nomination in the British Short Film & British Short Animation category. Graham continued, "I was guest tutor during the Post Production of all nominated graduate films, and I am delighted that the consistently high standard achieved by NFTS graduates is recognised internationally. Good luck to all the nominees." MPSE Verna Fields Award in Sound Editing for Student Filmmakers AnamnesisMonday, 27th January 2014
With the view to raising the Association's profile, this is the fifth occasion that AMPS has attended the event which also gives Production Sound members the opportunity to preview developments in camera, lighting and grip equipment. On display amongst many companies were a variety of LED lighting systems, small and large digital cameras and an impressive array of camera mounting solutions which all contributed to a varied and interesting event. The large and diverse number of exhibitors (from Arri to Warner Bros. De Lane Lea) were augmented by seminars on related topics and included a presentation by the acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro ASC AIC where he premiered his book "The Art of Cinematography". More information on this can be found here. Brian Simmons, Richard Manton and Chris Roberts were on hand both days to answer enquiries and engage in networking with industry friends and colleagues! www.bscexpo.comThursday, 12th December 2013
As you may be aware, Ofcom is currently consulting on the future use of TV white space and the best approach to co-existence with incumbent users such as DTT and PMSE. This is an issue of huge importance to the PMSE sector as, at present, it is the only secondary user of white space, coexisting with Digital Terrestrial Television. Here to download is BEIRG's response to the Ofcom consultation on "TV White Space: Approach to coexistence". The BEIRG response reflects contributions and views from across the PMSE sector and BEIRG.
Tuesday, 5th March 2013
Published by OFCOM 05/03/2013. 2.5MB, PDF
Tuesday, 15th May 2012
The sound team behind Sherlock (A Scandal in Belgravia), which included John Mooney (production sound mixer), Howard Bargroff (dubbing mixer) and Doug Sinclair (supervising sound editor) won the award for best sound for fiction. Kate Hopkins (dubbing editor) and her team won the award for best sound for factual for Frozen Planet (To The Ends Of The Earth). Kate previously won an Emmy for her work on Blue Planet in 2007. AMPS members were also among the sound award nominees. Rudi Buckle (production sound mixer) was nominated for The Hour, and Richard Dyer (sound recordist) and Paul Hamblin (sound re-recording mixer) for Great Expectations. On winning the award, Howard Bargroff said: “This is the first award I’ve won and I hadn't prepared anything to say, but it was a great project to work on, the original material recorded by John was excellent and the script, performances, editing and music (recorded at AIR) all contributed to the creation of a special final sound track. There were three episode in the series and they were all of the same high quality and a joy to work on.” Kate Hopkins also said: “It was a fantastic night and wonderful to get a BAFTA to take home to Bristol. Frozen Planet was a great series to work on. The challenge was to give the series a sound track that was detailed and when needed, big and punchy. Hopefully we achieved that.” Chris Roberts, Chairman of AMPS, added: "It's fantastic to see so many of the Association's members recognised by BAFTA in this year's television craft awards. It really shows just how much talent we have in the UK producing such great television soundtracks."Thursday, 25th July 1996
In response to complaints from Production Sound members regarding on set noise problems that inhibit the recording of usable sound and cause undue stress on sound crews, AMPS called a meeting of members to discuss the matter and offer solutions. Resulting from this meeting, a cross-section of members was asked to reply to a survey seeking their opinions and experiences. This document was composed from these replies.
Tuesday, 1st July 1975
Scan of Post Office Electrical Engineers Journal. Details of the anechoic chamber in the London Test Centre of the British Post Office. 3.6MB. PDF.
Friday, 1st September 1972
Scan of Post Office Telecommunications Journal describing the operations of the Post Office Cine Unit. 2.7MB. PDF.Monday, 1st January 1962
THE BBC Television Centre , opened in June 1960, is the hub of Britain's national television network. It houses the world's senior television service in the most up-to-date, self-contained broadcasting centre in Europe-the first in Britain to be designed specifically for television. 5.2MB. PDFFriday, 1st June 1934
Circuits for Broadcasting: What "Transmission by Landline" means to the Post Office. 2.1MB PDF.© 2015 The Association of Motion Picture Sound
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