In a gloriously silly sketch show pilot, Ellie White (The Windsors) and the prolific Natasia Demetriou (Stath Lets Flats) took cracks at all of “busybody mums”, “trustafarian teenagers” and Ariana Grande.
The phrase “go big or go home” could have been coined for the Glastonbury Festival. There are two ways to experience the world’s most important music weekender: those with the stamina and luck in the ticket lottery can camp out at Worthy Farm, mud and all; or there’s a viable “home” option, with the BBC, a cuppa and biscuits.
What does the job involve?
It varies hugely, depending on the film, but, for the majority of projects, I’m required to capture a performance, multi-camera, as it happens, in a single take, without a formal rehearsal.
Sounds exciting but also terrifying.
The atmosphere at a gig is amazing. You can feel the anticipation of the crowd building and you’ve often only got one chance to capture what they’re about to watch. But if you’ve done your homework, you’re ready for it.
How big is your camera team?
The BBC drama is based on the novel of the same name by Eleanor Catton and has been adapted into a six-part series by Catton.
Matthew Macfadyen returns for the final series of period drama Ripper Street.
Following the shocking murder of Inspector Bennet Drake, outlaws Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson and Long Susan join forces to avenge the death of their old friend - despite being hunted by the police themselves.
Antoine de Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier return to British television almost ten years after the original series of Eurotrash last aired. The comic duo take an irreverent look at European fashion, art, music, and, most significanlty, politics. Three days before the EU referendum, there is no better way to remember what it means to be part of the continent.
TV sound engineers are used to keeping a low profile. Only if something goes amiss do the people responsible for the sound emerge from the shadows. Paradoxically, minus the sound track a TV show would be unwatchable.
This point was made by the two veterans delivering an RTS Craft Skills Masterclass on sound, Chris Ashworth, Production Sound Mixer, and Mike Felton, Sound Designer.
“You only get shouted at when things go wrong,” Felton observed. “Sound is a masochist’s job. Basically you do it for your own satisfaction.”
