Former Engineering Manager with BBC TV Outside Broadcasts, Ian Dow, of Lower Sunbury, will be giving a talk on Friday, 18th November, 7.30pm at St Nicholas Parish hall, Church Square, Shepperton entitled ‘Lights, Camera, Action –oops!’ . The event is arranged by the River Thames Society and entrance costs £4 (members) and £5 (non-members).The desk bound jobs that so many of us endure will sound simple as we’ll listen to Ian describe the organisation required to successfully film live Outside Broadcasts onboard a catamaran in the Solent and all the problems associated with filming on a cross-channel ferry. From how he spoke in an interview Ian took all the difficulties encountered with wind problems, scenery blowing away, water-tight doors that jammed cables, unreliable lifts and five return practice trips in his stride.
Answering to whether he had many sleepless nights in anticipation of a problematic shoot
he replied ‘There is no point because invariably the thing you’re worrying about doesn’t happen, something else does. If it’s not the location that isn’t right, it’s the weather or the power. Right up to the end of the shoot we could never be fully confident that we had it as we wanted.”
