Readers can now vote for the nominees for the Panorama Awards 2018

Panorama Audiovisual readers until next time 2 April, and later a jury before a Notary, They will be in charge of choosing the winners, that will be known at the gala 8 May at IFEMA – Madrid Fair.

Panorama Audiovisual, reference publication for audiovisual professionals, has announced the nominees for the Panorama Awards 2018. These biennial awards recognize excellence, technological development and business innovation, professionals and television productions, cine, radio and advertising.

Its thirteen categories reward both equipment and technological solutions, facilities and projects, such as the technical execution of television and radio programs, film productions and advertising pieces.

from the past 5 from March until 23.55 hours of the next 2 April, Panorama Audiovisual readers will be able to vote online for a finalist in each category, among the five nominees proposed by the publication's editors, or designate your own.

The three most voted candidates in each category will be made public next 3 April, moving to a second phase in which a Jury, composed of eleven independent professionals of recognized solvency and in a secret vote before a Notary, will choose the winners.

During the awards ceremony Panorama Awards, which will take place on Tuesday evening, 8 May 2018, at IFEMA-Madrid Fair, coinciding with the opening of the Professional Audiovisual Technology Show BIT Audiovisual, In addition to the winners in each of the thirteen categories, the Panorama Lifetime Award.

This special award, awarded directly by the Panorama Audiovisual editorial team, will be announced in the coming weeks and recognizes the contribution of the men and women who have written television history, the cinema, radio or advertising.

In previous editions, Manuel Romero received this award., for his long professional career dedicated to covering the Olympic Games from Mexico 68, in both the summer and winter Olympic events; and Chema Prado, in recognition of their firm commitment to custody, recovery, research and conservation of cinematographic heritage at the head of the Spanish Film Archive for the last three decades.

Panorama Awards Nominees 2018

Among the nominees for the category Company of the year, They highlight a multinational that celebrates one hundred years of history (Panasonic); the EVS subsidiary in Spain and Portugal (which is precisely now celebrating ten years since the opening of its headquarters in Madrid); an integrator that in just four years has managed to position itself as a reference in project development (Data Average); a Madrid company (High Render) which has internationally launched a cloud-based virtual animation studio, and a wholesaler (Charmex) with a clear international vocation and a portfolio in continuous expansion.

As for the Most notable facilities, The new Telenoticias set appears as nominees (Telemadrid); the renewal of the studios and mobile units of Mediaset España, including a new sound methodology on TV, supported by an integrated audio and communications network based on Dante standards, MADI y SIP; the new filing system for sports from the British Timeline TV developed by the Spanish Tedial; the Atresmedia performance controls cluster, and the comprehensive digitization of the production and archive of Televisión de Galicia.

Five cameras will compete for the Panorama Award for Better capture technology: Venice (Sony); URSA Broadcast (Blackmagic); Epic-W 8K (RED); AU-EVA1 (Panasonic), and 8C-B60A 8K (Sharp).

In the category of Storage and media management, We found five very diverse options ranging from Fujifilm's tape-based dternity system, to the Dalet orchestration system, passing through the Ki Pro Ultra Plus recorders/players (AJA) and the T2 series (Grass Valley), together with the media management system, contribution and distribution of Xyrus from the Spanish company Estructure.

In Solutions for study, the nominees are the new Bolero intercom system from Riedel, X-One (EVS); Tricaster TC1-4K IP (NewTek); Graphite (Ross Video), and the ATEM mixer 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K (Blackmagic).

Oolla Flex (They spread it); Media Services Live (Akamai); Selenio One XC (Imagine); RelayCaster (Rohde&Schwartz), y S-Core (EVS) will compete for the Panorama Award for Better emission and distribution technology.

As to Post-production, Panorama Audiovisual readers and the jury must choose between these options: Media Composer Fisrt (Avid); 3DS Max 2018 (Autodesk); Fusion 9 (Blackmagic); IO 4K Plus (AJA), the Fuels 9 (Grass Valley).

For the category of Graphic creation, the proposals of the Panorama Audiovisual editorial team are OnMedia 3D (developed by Brainstorm and Never.no); Live Compositor (ChyronHego); 4Designer (Avid); Virtual Ser (WASP3D), y NVG1 (designed by NewTek and Vizrt).

Therefore, the recognition of Audio respect, Three wireless microphone systems compete for prizes (Evolution G4 de Sennheiser; Serie 5000 the Audio Technica, y Axient Digital Wireless de Shure); some studio monitors (8331, 8341 y 8351 The Ones, de Genelec), and a digital mixing console (Rivage PM7 desp).

Technical execution

In the section of technical execution in radio production, television, cinematographic and advertising, These are the productions that the Panorama Audiovisual editorial team proposes to its readers and jury:

In technical production in Radio RNE's innovative format of immersive sound fictions with binaural sound are nominated as nominees; two sports radio classics, Sports Carousel (TO BE) y game time (COPE); and two magazines, one in the afternoon like Julia on the Wave (Zero Wave) and an alarm clock’ as Good morning Javi and Mar (Chain 100).

Survivors 2018 (Telecinco); To Fish (Movistar+); The cable girls (Netflix); Operation Triumph (TVE), y Spanish World Heritage Cities (TVE) They appear in the quintet nominated for the best Technical production in television.

The Panorama Awards have evaluated the technical execution of these five nominated films: Veronica; summer 1993 (Summer 1993); big; Oro, y Hostile zone.

Finally, in Advertising production the prize will be for one of these five productions: Danielle (Lotteries); forever and ever (Audi); Happy Time – Pinball (Endesa); The ceremony (Magnum), y The Future already has memories (AVE).

Antonio Castillo, director of Panorama Audiovisual, has highlighted that “these awards, a benchmark for the audiovisual sector, They are a true reflection of the commitment to research and development of new solutions in an industry marked by convergence., and in which software and hardware allow broadcasters and operators to distribute content to multiple platforms and devices anywhere, anytime.”.

"On the other hand, nominations for awards that value technical execution on television, cine, radio and advertising once again show that the Spanish audiovisual industry is achieving excellence, as demonstrated by levels of internationalization unknown to date. The professionals who make these productions possible with the latest technological innovations, along with its high competition,“They have seen their efforts recognized with these awards.”, duck.

One of this year's innovations, as the director of Panorama Audiovisual reveals, is that “the ceremony of delivery of the Panorama Awards, which will take place in the evening of 8 May at IFEMA-Feria de Madrid, coinciding with the start of an unmissable event for professionals in the sector, BIT Audiovisual, It will be held for the first time in a unique venue. The famous catwalk of Madrid Fashion Week will host a gala this year that will transport the public to the night of the big city illuminated by neons.”.

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