BBC overhauls its VFX contracts

Manchester-based Red Vision was working on the VFX for Atlantis, a £2.4m factual drama shot entirely in front of a green screen in South Africa. It was at an advanced stage of the post-production process when the unfinished show was seized by liquidators. Ailsa Orr, head of programmes at BBC Northern Ireland, which looked after the production, told Broadcast that it prompted a review of the contracts the BBC signs with VFX houses.

“This had never happened before,” she said. “The BBC has worked with many companies before on programmes with varying kinds of VFX, and each time the asset ownership did not transfer until completion. It is standard that assets are not owned until finished, which is why we had to go into negotiations with the liquidator.

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