tv credits
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ? - "David Mitchell"
(Wall to Wall/BBC2)
Dir: Mary Crisp Camera: Rob Goldie
The 6th series of family history programs featuring popular celebrities. Shot on High Def with tx'd audio via Zaxcom digital stereo unit, with SD flash drive back-up.
UNEXPLAINED: TONY ROBINSON AND THE... "Blitz Witch", "The Ghosts of Glastonbury", & "The Medieval Reincarnation"
(Flashback TV/Ch4)
Dir: Alex Dunlop & Thomas Viner Camera: Graham Smith
Tony Robinson & Becky MacCall front a three part series which brings a rational investigative approach to the world of psychic mysteries and the myths and legends of the past. Shot on High Def with tx'd audio via Zaxcom digital stereo unit, with SD card back-up.
THE FALLEN
(Minnow Films/BBC1)
Prod: Morgan Matthews Camera: Graham Smith
A landmark, 3 hour feature-length film for BBC1 to mark Remembrance Sunday 2008. The Fallen will remember every British service person who has died whilst serving in Afghanistan and Iraq and those they have left behind. Shot on Digi Beta with tx'd audio via Zaxcom digital stereo unit, with SD card back-up.
THE DIETS THAT TIME FORGOT
(Silver River/Ch4)
Prod: Caroline Ross-Pirie Camera: Matt Marschner
Series following 3 groups who live 3 different historical diets and lifestyles in a country house, and the conclusions. Shot on Digi.
THE MONARCHY
(RDF/BBC1)
Dir: Steven Lambert Camera: Sam Keys/Peter Wilkinson
Now-notorious observational documentary going behind the scenes of the working Monarchy. Mostly self-shot. Shot on High-def with radio linked audio to the camera, and backed-up on SD flash recorder.
THE RISE & FALL OF TONY BLAIR
(Brook-Lapping/Ch4)
Dir: Rob Coldstream Camera:Rob Goldie
On-going defintive 3 x 1 hrs on the Premiership of Tony Blair, as related to Andrew Rawnsley, by those who served alongside him. Shot on DigiBeta.
KIDNAP!
(Mountain Film Unit (NZ)/Discovery-USA)
Dir: Tim Conrad Camera: Chris Goodger
Pilot for 13 x 1hr series for Discovery USA, about kidnap victims. This reconstructed in Morocco, the 2004 kidnapping, detainment, and release of American Roy Hallums, from captivity in Baghdad. Hallums was the world's longest-held captive. Shot on High Def, with Flash Drive (MicroTrak) atmospheres.
EATING WITH: 'Oona King' / 'Minette Walters'
(Optomen/BBC2)
Dir: Camera:Graham Smith
8 x 30' programs which combine the personal histories of the food-loving celebs, with a slice of social history.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? - "Bill Oddie"
(Wall to Wall/BBC2)
Dir: Simon Chu Camera: Graham Smith
1hr- well known faces within the British media each embark on individual journeys to answer
some questions in regards to their own family history...
CUTTING EDGE: "Bad Behaviour'' - 'Ben' / 'Fred and Diane' / 'The Hollis'
(Lion TV/Ch4)
Dir: Hilary Clark Camera: Jeremy Humphries/Graham Smith/Jeremy Humphries
3 x 1hr programs following the work of Behaviourist, Warwick Dyer, who works with parents
to change their discipline strategies, in response to their children's extreme behaviour. Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio backed-up on TCDAT.
FOOTBALL DIARIES
(Seek/Ch4)
Dir: Ian Denyer/Ian B. MacDonald Camera: Ian MacDonald
8 x 1 hrs following Weymouth Football Club under the new leadership of Steve Claridge as
Manager and Ian Ridley as Chairman, through the 2003/4 season. The series also looked at
English football clubs such as Reading, Newcastle, Chelsea, Ipswich, Blackburn and Manchester City.
SADDAM'S IRAQ
(MEBC/BBC)
Dir: Janet Harris Camera: Richard Gibb
4 x 1hr series on Iraq's post-war (2003) history, filmed in and around Baghdad. Shot on
DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the 790, backed-up onto pro Minidisc. Mono with M&S atmos's.
FIGHTING THE WAR
(BBC Documentaries and Contemporary Factual for BBC2)
Royal Television Society Award: Sound - Entertainment Non-Drama Production.
Awarded to: Sound Team - Fighting the War.
Dir: Janet Harris Camera: Neil Harvey (Click here for photos)
6 x 1hours following the 2003 war in Iraq. Our program was filmed with the Black Watch Battle Group on their push into Basra from Kuwait. Filmed on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the 790, backed-up onto pro Minidisc. Mono with M and S atmos's.
"The winning team demonstrated good judgment in dangerous and unpredictable conditions.
They exercised first-rate craft skills in the most difficult circumstances to ensure the key moments were captured"
AFGHAN WARRIOR: THE LIFE & DEATH OF ABDUL HAQ
(Touch Productions/BBC4)
Royal Television Society: Southern Centre Award for Best Investigative Documentary 2003
Dir: Malcolm Brinkworth Camera: Ken Guest (Click here for photos)
80min special on the history of Afghanistan over the last 25 years, as personified by the recent murder of leader-in-waiting, Adbdul Haq, by the Taliban regime. Shot on DVCam with tx'd audio to the DSR570, backed-up onto pro Minidisc. Mono with M and S atmos's.
ANCIENT REFUGE IN THE HOLY LAND: UNEARTHING A REBEL HIDEOUT
(Nova/WGBH) Click here for photos
Dir: Kurt Wolfinger Camera: Mike Haynes
Special following an American archaeological expedition aiming to find 2,000 years old artifacts buried in a remote cave system in Israel's Judean Desert. Shot on w/s Super 16mm with TimeCode DAT. Article published in Line Up magazine.
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL
(Newsweek Productions)
Dir: Veronica Young Camera: Kirsten Johnson (Click here for photos)
1 hr special centred on an American Peace Camp in Croatia, set-up for young survivors of the
Balkan Wars. We follow a group of Bosnian musicians and children from Sarajevo on their journey to the Camp, and relate their experiences. Shot on PD150 with transmitted audio backed-up onto pro Minidisc.
ROYAL TV
(BBC TV)
Dir: Bill Treharne Jones Camera: Mike Haynes
1hr special on the relationship between the monarchy and UK television, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
LIFE BEFORE BIRTH
(BBC Science)
Dir: John Hayes-Fisher Camera: Mike Haynes
BBC1 series following the work of Kings College Hospital's Harris Birthright Trust. We portray
the Trust's head - world-renown Prof. Kypros Nickolaedes - and tell the stories of those that come through the doors of the Trust. Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the camera. Also TimeCode DAT.
DOCTORS TO BE - UPDATE
(BBC Specialist Factual/BBC1)
Dir: Sadie Holland Camera: Mike Haynes
1hr special updating the on-going series of the 1984 intake of medical students at St.Mary's.
Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the camera. Also TimeCode DAT.
WHAT CHILDREN WANT
(BBC Current Affairs)
Dir: Matthew Thompson Camera: Chris Goodger
BBC1 special about children and the way they get what they want ! Shot on Digi Beta with tx'd audio to the camera.
THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY
(BBC Political Documentaries)
Dir: Bill Trehearne-Jones Camera: Mike Haynes
BBC2 1hr special about Margaret Thatcher's continuing effect on the modern Tory Party,
and how that legacy is responsible for their current state of uncertainty.
Shot before and after Ian Duncan-Smith's leadership election on DigiBeta with tx'd audio.
NEW DOCTORS TO BE
(BBC Science)
Dir: Sadie Holland Camera: Mike Haynes
BBC series following the the first years intake of a radically new Australian Medical course
to train new Doctors, based at St. George's Hospital, Tooting.
Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the camera. Also TimeCode DAT.
CHILD OF OUR TIME RTS Nominated
(BBC Science)
Prod: Tessa Livingstone Camera: Mike Haynes
90 minute special as a fore-runner to 20 year project charting the progress of a group of 20
babies born in the new Millennium.
Shot over 18 months transmitting audio to Digibeta, with TimeCode DAT TC/audio.
SECRET HISTORY: Children of the Iron Lung
(Granada/Ch4)
Dir: Ann Hawker Camera: Ian Moss
Digibeta shoot tracing how Polio epidemics swept the UK in the 1950's and 60's, and
how the disease was finally conquered, as seen by victims and contemporary experts.
A FAMILY CENTURY
(Twenty Twenty TV/Ch4)
Dir: David Leaf/Susan Cardy/Kate O'Driscoll Camera: Mike Haynes
50' special on Digibeta about a family of 113 living members which charts the Social history
of the 20th Century, through their family's story.
LAGOS AIRPORT
(Afro-Wisdom/Ch4)
Dir: Charlotte Moore Camera: Mike Haynes
5x1/2hrs shot solidly over three months transmitting audio to Digibeta, with TimeCode DAT TC/audio, following the life of Murtallah Muhamed Airport, Lagos, Nigeria. (Article published)
THE CORONER
(Twenty Twenty/ Ch4)
Prod/Dir: Ian Taylor Camera: Mike Haynes
4x1hrs shot solidly over three months in M and S stereo on TimeCode DAT TC/audio transmitted to DVPro, following the work of the Birmingham Coroner's officers.
HORIZON: Diet for Life
(BBC Science/BBC)
Prod/Dir: Tessa Livingstone Camera: Mike Haynes
1hr special shot in the UK USA on TimeCode DAT TC/audio transmitted to DigiBeta, about fat and the science of it all !
DOCTORS AT LARGE
(BBC Science Features)
Prod/Dir: Tessa Livingstone Camera: Mike Haynes
Third update series of 11 x1/2 hrs shot over eighteen months in M and S stereo on TimeCode
DAT TC/audio transmitted to Beta following the developing careers of young doctors,
first filmed 13 years ago when medical students.
THE DAY THE GUN FELLS SILENT
(BBC2)
Dir: Chris Sykes Camera: Richard Ranken
2 x 50' shot in UK France on TimeCode DAT Super 16mm, to commemorate the 80th
anniversary of the signing of the Armistice.
EXTREME MACHINES III: Sub
(Pioneer/Discovery)
Dir: Hugh Whitfield Camera: Ben Hodgson
1 hour special on-board USS Miami - an American nuclear powered and armed sub - on NATO manoeuvres. Audio transmitted to BetaSP.
HOW TO BE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
(BBC Political Documentaries)
Prod: Michael Cockerill Cam/Dir: Charles Miller
1 hour special audio transmitted to DVPro following William Hague's efforts to be the 'Leader of the Opposition'.
AGENTS OF CHANGE
(Films of Record/Ch4)
Prod: Roger Graef Camera: Michael Haynes
1 hour special audio transmitted to DVPro/DVC/Digibeta about the effect Management
Consultants have on modern businesses.
WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT JAMES ?
(Films of Record/Ch4)
Prod: Sue Dawson Camera: Michael Haynes/Alan James
James is a difficult 12 year old, passed back and forth between separated parents. Neither can cope with him...