BBC head resigns for sexing it up.

Originally posted by Nermal
Flood – Remember one of our lot getting into a puch up with that camera man at an airport! Heathrow, I think? He kept getting bashed in the head by the video camera and so he bought his shoulder back! Had to be separated by security! – Nermal

Oh yeah – camera guy wanted him arrested for breaking his nose (apparently!).
Somebody once gave me a dead leg in a press scrum…

Flood.

Originally posted by Nermal
Flood – Remember one of our lot getting into a puch up with that camera man at an airport! Heathrow, I think? He kept getting bashed in the head by the video camera and so he bought his shoulder back! Had to be separated by security! – Nermal

I have to admit a good punch up does wonders for the blood pressure too. High Court reporting was always my fave, needed the extra fast trainers on though, just in case it was sentencing day on Mad Jack McMad’s trial at Glasgow.

Flood – Remember one of our lot getting into a puch up with that camera man at an airport! Heathrow, I think? He kept getting bashed in the head by the video camera and so he bought his shoulder back! Had to be separated by security! – Nermal

Originally posted by Arthur
Hey, i only did a TV report once, and at the crucial bit my dear rent-a-cameraman didn’t have a tape loaded…

So was the crucial bit right at the start ?

And reporter Andrew Gilligan has now resigned too.

Flood.

Hey, i only did a TV report once, and at the crucial bit my dear rent-a-cameraman didn’t have a tape loaded… The annoyance works both ways.

I did enjoy experimenting around with mpeg-interviews with an absolotely terrible Sony cybershot being both reporter + cameraman, but somehow even that’s too expensive for certain newspapers. As was I.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
…Presumably you were watching News 24 pictures either on News 24 or main channels, as it would have been. News 24 is a breeding ground for inexperienced cameramen and every other discipline involved in ENG.

Not the ‘stick them somewhere where they can train without being too embarrassing’ technique?:rolleyes: Is News 24 up into double figures with the viewer numbers yet? – Nermal

There’s a Damien Day in every news organisation, or should I say Andrew Gilligan ?

My experience of doing that particular work is that you should never trust a journalist, and always rely on them to have you somewhere late with egg on your face

Generally speaking, I get on with the snappers I meet in news, with the exception of a few News International chaps who could do with a bit of a slap. Especially prior to a scrum when we’ve all agreed positions and they unashamedly stand in front of your lens when you’re twenty feet away from a press conference and tripod mounted on a feckin long lens doing big close-ups.

Thankfully I don’t do news these days, a charmed existence in documentarys, studios and OB’s has done wonders for my blood pressure.

It was BBC1 – when I want satellite I will probably do away with the TV instead…

One of my really early jobs was photographing the Royal Navy vessels returning to Porstmouth from the Desert Storm event in 1991. Top of the Round Tower, Old Portsmouth (ah, the memories!!!;)).
Anyway there was one of them coming in and there were the families with their welcoming banners and there was the media contingent behind, or poking their heads between the families banners, hanging off the walls, etc.
Then the local ITV company crew (think it was still Meridian then) turn up – nearly too late for the arrival.
“Excuse us – we’ve gotta film this!”
Families told the reporter and camera man to go forth and multiply.
Reporter (arrogant bugger) tries the ‘What about those family members who couldn’t get here…’ plea but has it pointed out that there were other camera crews present who did arrive early enough before being told to sling his hook again.
Reporter then orders the camera man to get us photographers off the crenellations. Camera man points out there are around five of us and some have big lenses and monopods (always useful when trying to put your point across;)) plus the usual boatspotters and their scanners, etc. Camera man gets a flea in his ear from the reporter, comes over to us and then is invited to jump over the side ‘coz that is the only way we’d make space for him!
When I saw what little they showed from the Round Tower on the evening program I figured that they never did persuade anyone to shift…

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
Sorry – I was trying to turn the TV off but it was car-crash television. Think the cameraman kept pushing photographers heads out of the way and someone else would leap into the space…
Would have thought the beeb would have given their guys at least a little preference!;)

Flood.

A news scrum, is a news scrum and that will never change. Presumably you were watching News 24 pictures either on News 24 or main channels, as it would have been. News 24 is a breeding ground for inexperienced cameramen and every other discipline involved in ENG.

Sorry – I was trying to turn the TV off but it was car-crash television. Think the cameraman kept pushing photographers heads out of the way and someone else would leap into the space…
Would have thought the beeb would have given their guys at least a little preference!;)

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
Ha! Live on the BBC is Greg Dyke – director general – resigning (or something) and all that BBC viewers can see is the back of other camera men and photographers!
He is giving a statement and all we can see is cameras!
Ooh! A bit of his head and maybe an eye! And the reporter lost her earpiece!

What a screw up!

Flood.

That’s freelancers for you. As of tomorrow, I will officially have worked for the corporation one day longer than Greg Dyke.

Ha! Live on the BBC is Greg Dyke – director general – resigning (or something) and all that BBC viewers can see is the back of other camera men and photographers!
He is giving a statement and all we can see is cameras!
Ooh! A bit of his head and maybe an eye! And the reporter lost her earpiece!

What a screw up!

Flood.

But then you would say that because you don’t live in this ‘socialist paradise’.
Having turned about an election pledge that students would not have to pay for their education he has now made the cardinal sin of looking smug on TV whilst gloating about being found innocent (45 minutes, anybody?).
So whilst worrying if the money will last before they put up the council tax again, or if the roads will hold up enough for us to queue in traffic jams to get to work, or whether we still have a doctor to see or should we make an appointment to queue in casualty just on the off chance that we have an accident – at least we now know master of spin Campbell didn’t try to get the public behind Tony Blair (when he was in the country) and the war by making it more exciting…
Now if only our troops hadn’t been mislead about their desert equipment being available for all and up to the job… If only WMDs had been found so that Blair didn’t appear to be like the oldest kid in senior school who still believed in Santa Claus whilst still proclaiming that he believed that they were still there… If only the cry had been for Saddams head in the first place rather than poncing around sending in weapons inspectors when the authorities had no intention of taking any notice of them…

Still – you know better.;)

Flood.