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The 48th NAB-J Symposium of Broadcast TechnologyJapanese Only Admission Free

November 16 (Wed.) to 18 (Fri.) 3rd Floor, International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe
Sponsored by: The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan

Special Program November 17 (Thu.) Room 301

13:30-16:00

Verification of The Great East Japan Earthquake and the function of the Broadcast Techniques:
We reflect back on the days after the disaster and verify how we should prepare for and what we should do

Symposium of Broadcast Technology

Venue 11/16 (Wed.) 11/17 (Thu.) 11/18 (Fri.)
Room 301 10:30-14:15
Pictorial Image Technology
13:30-16:00
Special Program
10:30-15:30
Transmission
14:40-16:45
Datacasting/Digital Services
Room 302 13:00-15:05
Production Engineering
15:15-11:55
Production Engineering
10:30-14:40
Sound Broadcasting/Audio
Room 303 10:30-16:45
Broadcast Operation
10:15-11:55
Network Linkage/Communication
10:30-14:15
Information Technology/Network

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Special SymposiumJapanese Only Prior Application Required

November 17 (Thu.) 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Convention Hall A, 2F, International Conference Hall
Organized by: Disaster Warning Digital Community Radio Group

Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Emergence of New Disaster Prevention Radio

Theme 1: Looking Back at the Time of the Disaster
Theme 2: Launch and Present Condition of Emergency Disaster Stations
Theme 3: What Lessons Emerged
Theme 4: Trends in V-Low Digital Community Radio

The Community Simul Radio Alliance (CSRA) is community broadcasting stations that carry out Internet distribution. On their website, they provided a simultaneous radio system for one month after the Great East Japan Earthquake for emergency disaster FM broadcasts and disaster response stations (local community broadcasting stations in regions with extensive damage).
At that time, lots of people in those areas were saying that "we wanted information."
The Great East Japan Earthquake was a disaster that has made people keenly aware of the importance of information, in addition to the three major lifelines of electricity, gas and water.
Meanwhile, with the analog TV ch1 to ch3 in the unused frequencies due to the switch from terrestrial analog broadcasting to digital taking the name of V-Low, investigations have been taking place with the creation of the new V-Low multimedia broadcasting centered on sound.
When the disaster struck, how was the information that must be delivered to residents? How can this information be delivered to residents? If V-Low radio, which provides support during a disaster becomes the standard, what kind of radio is needed? These are the questions we shall be exploring.
From the disaster-hit area, we will welcome Isoo Sasaki, the Mayor of Natori City in Miyagi Prefecture, Takehiro Wako, the Supervisor of the Natori emergency disaster FM station, Michiko Sakamoto, a personality at the Iwaki Citizen Community Broadcasting as well as Taro Kimura. They will look back to March 11 (the day of the Great East Japan Earthquake) and in light of the cooperation between the authorities and emergency disaster stations will explore what is necessary in order to deliver "voice."

●Panelist
Mr. Taro Kimura
President, Zushi Hayama Community Broadcasting Company
Mr. Isoo Sasaki
Mayor of Natori City
Mr. Takehiro Wako
Supervisor, Natori emergency disaster FM station
Ms. Michiko Sakamoto
Personality, Iwaki Citizen Community Broadcasting
Ms. Megumi Ito
MC, Community Simul Radio Alliance

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Asia Contents Forum Powered by DigiCon6Admission Free

November 16 (Wed.) to 18 (Fri.) Exhibition Hall 8, Makuhari Messe
Special Collaborator: TBS DigiCon6
Co-sponsor: Adobe Systems K.K.

■For further information/Inquiry : http://www.tbs.co.jp/digicon
http://www.facebook.com/digicon6

With the remarkable growth of the Asian markets in recent years, the content market is entering a new phase. In support of producers who take advantage of cutting edge technology to craft even more attractive and novel creations, the Asia Contents Forum – with special collaboration from TBS DigiCon6 and co-sponsorship from Adobe systems – will feature workflow demonstrations for all types of content production, talks by top Asian creators and introduce Asian creator productions.

Thursday, November 17th, 11:00 – 16:45 DigiCon6 Top Creator's Session

TBS has been aiming to "discover and train" new creators since 2000, and now collaborates with the TBS DigiCon6 Awards held in 10 regions throughout Asia. The top award-winning, highly talented young creators from each region will talk about their productions and content production systems. Guest lecturers will include Grace Chng Kooi Eng, co-founding editor-in-chief of Digital Life, a weekly magazine published by leading Singapore newspaper The Straits Times; Gareth Edwards, director of the low-budget box office smash Monsters; and long-time insider in the Taiwanese animation industry Ui-Li Dan, chairman of the Taiwan Animation Association. The theme for the lectures will be "The Asian Contents Market - Looking Ahead Five Years." Don't miss this special occasion!

●MC

Yuumi Furuya

Yuumi Furuya
Announcer at TBS

11:00-11:45

■Invitational Lecture 1

Ms. Grace Chng Kooi Eng

Ms. Grace Chng Kooi Eng

Awarded an MBA from the National University of Singapore, and a degree in social science from the University Sains Malaysia. Over 20 years active as a leading technology journalist in Singapore, Ms. Chng has witnessed first-hand the transitions in IT corporations, the growing effectiveness of IT, as well as the evolution of consumer mobile technologies and the web. She served as a panelist discussing issues surrounding diversity in the workplace at the Women Leaders of New Asia summit held in Singapore, March 2011. She is the co-founding editor-in-chief of Digital Life - a weekly technology magazine published by The Straits Times, Singapore’s leading daily newspaper. She has served on the National Internet and Media Advisory Committee of Singapore.

13:30-14:15

■Invitational Lecture 2

Mr. Gareth Edwards

Mr. Gareth Edwards
Photograph by: Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Gettyimages

Born in 1975, Mr. Edwards is an up-and-coming director who continues to challenge the boundaries of filmmaking. Working mainly as a VFX creator for broadcasting programs, Mr. Edwards has won British Academy awards for his works including Discovery Channel productions and BBC documentary Space Race. He was also nominated for Emmy awards for his works. In a radical departure from the standard divisions of labor in modern filmmaking, he has encountered his own style in which he does nearly all the production work himself. His debut feature film Monsters (2010) that was also released throughout Japan from July 2011 received a number of awards. As a director garnering global attention, Mr. Edwards has been selected to direct a major Hollywood remake of Godzilla.

16:00-16:45

■Invitational Lecture 3

Ui-Li Dan

Ui-Li Dan

Mr. Dan is a founder of Taiwan's first cartoon company China Cartoon Production (CCPCO) in 1971. He has been selected as one of the 10 outstanding young people in 1975 (TOYP). He is currently Chairman of the Taiwan Animation Association and Secretary of the Chinese Taipei Film Archive, and has decades of experience in the animation industry. Major works include: The Progress of Chinese Characters, Taiwan's first full-length feature Generals, the feature film Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the 26-episode TV production The Legend of Shaolin, the 90 min Butterfly Lovers, and Mazu. Many of his productions have been awarded national and international prizes. His 1973 production The Progress of Chinese Characters won the special prize in the Gold Horse Awards in recognition of its contribution towards Chinese character education. Romance of the Three Kingdoms won the Gold Horse Award for best-animated feature, while in 2003, Butterfly Lovers and The Legend of Shaolin won awards both in Taiwan and internationally. Mazu premiered in 2007, a film produced jointly with China Film Group United Film & TV. Mr. Dan has also contributed greatly to training animators and those engaged in the China, Taiwan and Hong Kong animation industries. A passionate promoter of culture with rich experiences fostered in the animation industry, he continues to strive for even more innovative animated productions. Mr. Dan is currently working on the animated film Legend of Bodhisattva.

●Moderator

Takafumi Yuuki

Takafumi Yuuki
Director, Asia Contents Forum

Thursday, November 17th, 11:45-12:15 / 14:15-14:45 / 16:45-17:15
The 13th TBA DigiCon6 Asian Creators' Talk

A series of sessions introducing content works and production of regional content in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Korean, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, presented by the regional award winners.

Wednesday, November 16th, 10:30-12:00
Towards a Model Information Service for Disaster Evacuees around the Country – Symposium on Minamisoma Channel's Trial Video Service in Hokuriku, and Future National Deployment

Organizers: City of Minamisoma, Yoozma, and TBS Television
Co-sponsors: Hokuriku Bureau of Telecommunications, Tohoku Bureau of Telecommunications, Council for Minamisoma Channel Trial Video Service in Hokuriku Support, Nanto City, NTT West, Panasonic System Solutions Japan, and Actovila (scheduled)

The Minamisoma Channel trial broadcast service commenced in September, and supplies video from Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture over the Internet, to PCs and digital televisions for the townspeople of Minamisoma who have evacuated to Hokuriku. With the main aim of garnering wide-ranging support and cooperation, this symposium will discuss the results of this experimental video service, and explore solutions to the issues facing national deployment of the Minamisoma Channel.

●Programs

10:30

Message from the organizer Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor of Minamisoma City

10:35

Message from the guest Takashi Morita, Parliamentary Secretary for Internal Affairs and Communications

10:40

Summary of the program Takashi Noguchi, CEO, Yoozma Corporation

11:00-12:00

Panel discussion – Towards national deployment from Minamisoma Channel to East Japan Recovery Channel

●Coordinator
Hitoshi Mitomo
Professor, Waseda University
●Panelists
Teruyasu Murakami
Senior Fellow, Nomura Research Institute
Mikio Tanaka
Mayor of Nanto City
Yuuichi Sato
Chief of Information Policy Section, General Coordination and Policy Planning Department, Minamisoma City
Kazumasa Saito
Head of the Hokuriku Bureau of Telecommunications
Takashi Noguchi
CEO, Yoozma Corporation
Yasubumi Honma
Head of Division of TV Technology, TBS Television

Wednesday, November 16th, 15:30-17:00
Asia Contents Forum Special Session: Proposal by creators of NHK special drama Saka no ue no kumo on the future content production

●Speakers

Taku Kato

Taku Kato
Special drama Saka no ue no kumo
Chief Director, Part 3

Seiichi Hishikawa

Seiichi Hishikawa
Special drama Saka no ue no kumo
Title back designer (also a director of NTT Docomo's web commercial Xylophone, founder of Drawing and Manual Inc., and a filmmaker)

●Moderator

Takafumi Yuuki

Takafumi Yuuki
Special drama Saka no ue no kumo
VFX Producer and Line Producer (also a director of Inter BEE Asia Contents Forum)

Wednesday, November 16th, 13:30-14:30
Asia Content Forum Adobe CS 5.5 Production Premium ProVideo Session – A Happy Marriage between Business and Creativity is the Way Forward for the Video Industry: Future video production that Flag Co., Ltd. plans

As a company established in 2001 by two people who had no experience in the video industry, Flag has had a unique existence in the business. However, Flag continues to hold the lead as a standard-bearer in the content business revolution, and now employs more than eighty people. This impressively growing company has produced JR East Train Channel programs, and has won the celebrated gold Asia Spikes award for its commercials.
Flag is also renowned as a company that tends to hang on to its creative staff, certainly a rare phenomenon in the video industry. Guest speaker, Flag CEO Hiroaki Kubo, will talk about his company and the Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium system that lies behind its success.

Friday, November 18th, 13:30-15:00
Asia Contents Forum Adobe CS 5.5 Production Premium ProVideo Session – PV making of Khara's Meaw pair*: Animation production workflow in the 3DCG era

In this session, Hideaki Anno will present actual user cases from his company Khara and Adobe Pro Video Reseller Too. During the session, Hiroyasu Kobayashi, in charge of CG production and digital shooting/composites/effects at Khara, and director Akira Fukuzawa will also take the podium to tell interesting stories about the recently released full CG animation production, the promo for virtual idol duo Meaw's single "pair*" and the linkages with Adobe CS 5.5 3D software used to make the video, as well as the use of live-action footage and others.

Lecturers and content of Asia Contents Forum are subject to change without notice.

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Loudness Summit TokyoJapanese Only Prior Application Required

Hosts: Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) and the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB)

Loudness Symposium

  • Wednesday, November 16th 15:00-16:30 International Conference Room, 2nd Floor
  • Thursday, November 17th 10:30-12:00 Conference Room 101, 1st Floor
  • Friday, November 18th 10:30-12:00 Conference Room 101, 1st Floor

◆Preface
The ARIB TR-B32 that incorporates operational guidelines for loudness was enacted in March 2011. And when you think about it, there was a standard level for sound but no standard in terms of volume level. This has triggered a so-called "loudness war" or volume competition globally, which has made people aware of the need to establish stricter guidelines for volume level around the world.
The operational guidelines for loudness have introduced a new index called the Average Loudness Value that is designed to create a balanced volume level by maintaining established values.
If these operational guidelines proceed smoothly, people will no longer need to hang on to the remote controller to adjust volume levels while watching TV programs. This means that a standard has finally been achieved to realize broadcasting that is more comforting for viewers thanks to operational guidelines for loudness.

◆Overview
At the Loudness Symposium, we will focus on covering the path for enacting the ARIB TR-B32 Operational Guidelines for Loudness of Digital Television Programs, and also introduce the NAB technological standards T032 Operational Standards for Sound Level of Television Broadcasting.
By participating in the Loudness Symposium, you will learn from a brief overview on loudness characteristics that various programs will be held to describe matters such as the background for enacting operational guidelines of loudness, loudness operations by the NAB in Japan, and why loudness is being focused on now, all in a very easy-to-understand manner. For more detailed information, we recommend that you participate in one of the many workshops explaining how to use loudness meters or how enhance your knowledge of loudness in general. You can also expand your understanding of loudness by experiencing firsthand, displays of other manufacturers as workshops will be held in a section within the Loudness Zone at the exhibition venue.

◆Program

■Why is there a need for Operational Guidelines for Loudness?
■Measures up to now for enacting operational guidelines for loudness.
■Overview of NAB (Japan) Technological Standards T032
■Who requires a loudness meter?
■Using a loudness meter.

Loudness Workshop

Planning: Loudness Summit Organizing Committee
Venue: Special Site inside International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe

■Wednesday, November 16th

10:30~11:10 Session 1

Basics of loudness meters.

11:30~12:10 Session 2

What happens during post production?

13:00~13:40 Session 2

Operations for broadcasting companies.

14:00~14:40 Special Panel Session 1

What about for movies?

■Thursday, November 17th

12:10~12:50 Session 1

Basics of loudness meters.

14:40~15:20 Session 2

What happens during post production?

15:40~16:20 Session 3

Operations for broadcasting companies.

16:40~17:20 Special Panel Session 2

What about for music?

■Friday, November 18th

12:30~13:10 Session 1

Basics of loudness meters.

13:30~14:10 Session 2

What happens during post production?

14:30~15:10 Session 3

Operations for broadcasting companies.

15:30~16:10 Special Panel Session 3

TV and various other media.

At the Loudness Symposium to be held in the International Conference Hall, loudness operations will be projected panoramically but some may find it difficult to envision the actual on-site operations.
Therefore, to overcome this issue, we have planned a Loudness Workshop that will project loudness characteristics more pragmatically with special panel discussions where panelists will gather to discuss the future of loudness.

■Session 1: Basics of loudness meters.
■Session 2: What happens during post production?

What will post-production engineers face while working with loudness? The basics of this question will be covered via video presentations and other tools that can be used to test mixing methods.

This will be a forty-minute session where participants can discuss loudness characteristics such as, "What exactly is comfortable sound for listeners?"

■Session 3: Operations for broadcasting companies (commercial broadcasters).

What should broadcasters prepare for when working with loudness? Lecturers will cover topics that provide an overview of NAB technological standards T032, workflow centering on pre-delivery inspection at broadcasters, and measures for live broadcasting. This will provide ideas on what to expect and prepare for to people involved with handling delivered footages.

■Special Panel Session 1: What about for movies?

There was an issue of a drastic difference in levels between trailers and movie premieres after film soundtracks were digitized in early ‘90s.
Actual case studies of how this issue was resolved at the time will be shown and cross-media measures for the future will be discussed by people of the film soundtrack industry along with other young professionals of the industry.

■Special Panel Session 2: What about for music?

How should loudness be treated in music production? And has the perception of "volume level" changed via the transition from packaged media such as CDs to digital audio players? Also, what are the thoughts on volume levels in terms of music tagged with video such as music videos and commercial clips? This special panel session will look into loudness characteristics in various scenes dealing with music such as recordings, mastering, and MA post-production studios.

■Special Panel Session 3: TV and various other media.

Although listeners enjoy content other than broadcasting on a TV or monitor, loudness standards are still an issue for the future in most fields other than broadcasting. We will be inviting professionals in the content industry to search for a better sound experience for listeners by focusing on the industry situation at present and directions of the future.

Because loudness operation is still a new initiative in the world, professionals in the field do not always have all the answers but they can get ideas and hints from many of your questions.
What’s more, there will be a loudness zone where booths of loudness meter manufacturers will be exhibited right next to the special site. We hope that you will take this excellent opportunity to experience these products firsthand and come up with pertinent questions or comments, which can be derived through these workshops.

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