A Shameless Plug for GTC

So I am now on the Council of the Guild of TV Cameramen, A fine organistion for Professional Television Camera Operators whose aim is to futher the knowledge and quality of camerawork on Television and the Media.

Coupled also with embracing new techniques ,technology and manufacturers developments.

THe GUild Produce a glossy magazine, ZERB and a newsletter type publication INFocus quarterly. They also run workshops regularly and produce an Awards Event Annually.

TV Cameraman ? Not Already a member ?

Click the link to find out more !

www.gtc.org.uk

Jigsaw

Here's one to Ponder and set a parallel to ....

Many years ago I asked a colleague who was a reporter and who I'd spent the evening in the Pub with, What he thought it was all about.....you know, the bigger picture.

Well he came straight out with the following......

Visualise yourself in the world, as a small piece of a jigsaw, part of the complete picture all the same, but still a very small insignificant piece......

But without that Piece the bigger picture isnt complete, it has gaps and you can't tell exactly what it is.

Which just goes to show how we all have a part to play in the grand scheme of things, we all have equal needs, desires,hopes,attributes, talents as if they were the bits that lock it all together and beleive me , when they do you can stand back and see how great it all is....

(or should that be there is someone else out there looking back at how marvellous it all is.......)

Dungeness

It's like nowhere else in the UK.

A Nuclear Power Station

A Minature Railway

Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage

The Best Fish and Chips in the Country

and an OB Crew at the Pub on Sunday Lunch Time.

Now that's Dungeness...

Slowly but Surely but Heavily :-)

We have Bought a GlideCam at Work, A variant on the Steadicam made in Hollywood and I and a couple of the other camera operators have been playing with it in order to try and get to grips with it...for use on air by September.

Although we do need some proper training I have now become quite familiar with it and on friday I went fo a long walk around the building clocking up 20 minutes....It turns out I'vereally got to work a back muscle for extra endurance it seems, although Pip seems quite at home with it !