BBC Studios and Post Production Digital Media Services Appoints Kevin Shaw as Lead Technologist

BBC Studios and Post Production Digital Media Services Appoints Kevin Shaw as Lead Technologist 29 May 2013

Experienced digital media specialist Kevin Shaw has joined BBC Studios and Post Production's award-winning Digital Media Services team as Lead Technologist. As a Consultant, Kevin was instrumental in the specification, design, build and delivery of the company's new purpose-built digital media services facility at Odyssey Business Park in South Ruislip. His new full-time role sees him heading up technology development and workflow design as increasing numbers of content owners look to manage and maximise the value of their content.

Having worked as a Colourist, Instructor and Technical Consultant in a career spanning almost 30 years, Kevin has considerable experience of both the creative and technology sides of the content management business. He has been involved in many high-profile broadcast, commercials and feature film projects and, in 2009, founded the International Colorist Academy (ICA), which teaches certified courses for colourists. Kevin has served as director of training for Da Vinci systems and consulted for Digital Vision on its high-end file-based creative tools. He has also consulted for many other leading companies including Intel, Kodak, Technicolor, Qube, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), CBS Broadcast and National Film Board of Canada.

Kevin helped ensure the smooth transition of Digital Media Services from Television Centre to our fantastic new home, built around the latest technology, in South Ruislip, said Clive Hodge, Head of Digital Media Services at BBC Studios and Post Production. He brings to the role decades of film, tape and digital experience, adding to the in-depth technical broadcasting knowledge of our existing team, as we continue to deliver large-scale bespoke projects for content owners wanting to unlock the value of their content.

BBC Studios and Post Production's Digital Media Services award-winning team provides specialist media management services including digital film restoration, archiving and media handling and delivery. Recent projects include the remastering of the David Attenborough nature documentary series, Life on Earth (1979) and Trials of Life (1990) - for which the team won a 2013 FOCAL International Award - House of Cards and the first Doctor Who story to be filmed in colour, Spearhead from Space. It has also recently digitised a substantial proportion of the Imperial War Museums' priceless collection of First World War film footage for the upcoming centenary in 2014.

LINK:	http://www.theiabm.org/article.php?group_id=8809...
	See more stories from iabm

Most recent headlines