BEGINS the BBC: “Edinburgh’s film commission has reported a healthy rise in the number of productions filming in the area.
“Film Edinburgh, which also covers East Lothian and the Scottish Borders, said 361 projects were completed in 2014 – a six per cent increase on the previous year.
“There was also an eight per cent rise in the number of production inquiries.
“High-value productions which were completed included the BBC drama, Murder, which filmed in Edinburgh for four months, and TV series, Outlander.”
Read more, here. And here, on the Film Edinburgh website.
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AND staying with TV and film in the capital, Brian Ferguson, in The Scotsman, today begins (here): “The Danish director who masterminded hit crime show, The Killing, has spent four months in Scotland secretly filming his first British drama series.
“Locations across Edinburgh and the Lothians have been deployed for Birger Larsen’s three-part series, Murder, due to be aired on BBC2 later this year.”
And in an accompanying article (here), Ferguson begins: “Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to personally intervene over the ‘crisis’ gripping Scotland’s film and TV industry, The Scotsman can reveal.
“Campaigners have revealed they have ‘door-stepped’ the new First Minister in protest at the handling of the screen sector and the failure to build a permanent studio facility.”
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AN announcement from newspapers, comics and magazines publisher, DC Thomson, begins: “Discovery Print, the printing arm of DC Thomson, is to install a Kodak digital print head, becoming one of only two businesses in the UK to invest in the technology.
“Kodak’s Prosper S-Series Imprinting System (digital print head) is expected to be fitted in February 2015. The digital print head will provide Discovery Print with the ability to produce bespoke newspapers capable of featuring unique advertising and marketing content.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website, journalism.co.uk: “There are regularly more women than men studying journalism on a full-time undergraduate basis in the UK, according to data released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
“The figures from 2007 to 2014 show the number of women on courses outnumber men in every year except 2008, when the numbers are equal.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Guardian’s Mark Sweney: “David Beckham’s TV ad for whisky brand, Haig Club, has been cleared by the UK advertising watchdog, despite complaints that the former footballer’s endorsement promotes drinking among children.
“The commercial, from Sherlock Holmes director, Guy Ritchie, features Beckham and a well-groomed group of trendy friends converging on what looks like a Highland estate to share a weekend and a tipple of scotch together.”
Read more, here.
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