Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC), a Nikon company headquartered in Surrey, U.K., has added Cgangs International as regional reseller for the APAC region. The partnership with Cgangs comes as MRMC seeks to further embed its motion control and studio robotics solutions within virtual and studio production in Singapore and beyond. A specialist in virtual production workflows, Cgangs has been providing a range of support and implementation services to broadcasters and brands such as StarHub, Mediacorp, RedBull and Sport Singapore to name a few….
LEA Professional, a global manufacturer of industry-first, pro-audio amplifiers with cloud- and IoT-based technologies, has appointed Highway Marketing as the newest independent representative firm to join the LEA team, covering Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas (TOLA). Manufacturers representative Highway Marketing has a nearly 30-year history of supporting the installed sound and video marketplace in the TOLA region….
From Restoring To Hopefully Preserving Multi-Camera Categories At The Emmys
When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category--Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series--that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside when not enough multi-camera entries materialized.
In his acceptance speech, Baum appealed to the Television Academy to keep multi-camera categories alive. He later noted to SHOOT that editors also got their multi-camera recognition back in the Emmy competition this year. Baum hopes that after resurrecting multi-camera categories in 2024, such recognition will be preserved for 2025 and beyond.
A major factor in the decline of multi-camera submissions in 2023 was the move of certain children’s and family programming from the primetime Emmy competition to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS) Emmy ceremony. For DPs this meant that multi-camera programs last year were reduced to vying for just one primetime nomination slot in the more general Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) category. It turned out that this single slot was filled in ‘23 by a Baum-lensed episode of How I Met Your Father (Hulu).
Fast forward to this year’s competition and Baum won for another installment of How I Met Your Father--”Okay Fine, It’s A Hurricane,” which turned out to be the series finale. Two of Baum’s Emmy wins over the years have been for How I Met Your Father, and there’s a certain symmetry to them. His initial win for How I Met Your Father was for the pilot in 2022. So he won Emmys for the very first and last... Read More