In August last year we used a TVU pack to do a live broadcast from the top of the ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. At that time our main focus was how the legacy plans for the park were coming along. We joked then that what the Orbit needed was a giant…
Every year on the 10th of December the award ceremonies take place for the Nobel Prizes. The venue for the Peace prize is always Norway’s capital Oslo whereas the Literature, Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, Physics and Economics prize ceremony happens in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm. For us the event really begins two months earlier at the…
“I thought that the flower of their English womanhood would easily beat them Japanese” So declared the man on the street we had persuaded to share his thoughts with us on England’s Lionesses losing to Japan’s Nadeshiko in the semi-final of the Woman’s Football World Cup. Ah, vox pops, vox populi, voice of the people,…
When abroad you will need to get some (usually six) local pay-as-you-go data-use SIM cards. Ideally these should be 4G, but at least 3G. So far our experience has been that it is not possible to get 4G SIMs that are pay-as-you-go, they are only available on contract, which is not possible on short visits.…
(22nd – 28th January 2015) So often on assignments one turns up and it is necessary to start recording images as soon as possible, before a situation changes or develops and is gone. This was one occasion where we were told that we would first have a tour, with phones off and no photos or…
If I had as much hassle travelling with my actual passport I’d probably never go anywhere. Being the cameraman for a foreign broadcaster’s London bureau international travel is inevitable. For me to cross borders usually a valid passport, and where applicable, a visa are all that are required. If, as is normal, I want to…
This year our news coverage of the WEF’s annual get together was in doubt, but our trip there was not, even with two Japanese hostages under an IS ransom deadline. It would seem that it has become important to remain on the accreditation list each year and to do this one must actually turn up,…
Nothing to do with news gathering but I’ve just had a slightly unusual experience, almost as if I’d entered the twilight zone, or more accurately the twilight years zone. I had a couple of hours free and having been up since 5am with jet-lag I decided on a morning trip to the flicks at my…
Kyiv, 20th – 27th May 2014 News coverage requires a good filling energy rich healthy breakfast to start one’s day. Black tea and raw undressed cabbage didn’t quite cut it. Even with seconds I was a little concerned as more often than not on overseas trips I have been lucky if I get two meals…
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