8x60 mins for Virgin One
An ob-doc exploring the lives of people living and working on the North Sea, from Riggers to Search and Rescue Choppers, Lifeboatmen to Fishermen. This series was ground-breaking for Virgin 1, and provided them with their highest home grown audience figures to date.
Ibiza 2008
9x60 mins for Living TV
Living TV spends the summer in Ibiza following the lives of people that live and work on the White Isle.
With a schedule of around 11 weeks to deliver 9 shows, Ibiza really piled the pressure on. As a senior editor on the project, I was responsible for cutting stories in extremely short time frames (in many cases creating a finished segment in the time it would take to just watch all the rushes for the story!). I also reworked and integrated dozens of packages cut by junior editors for the shows to create the final product, whilst continually overseeing the integrity of the shared storage system.
The show was a lot of fun with loveable
and memorable characters.
Living with the Dead
8x60mins for Living TV
2 mediums investigate the realities of families plagued by
ghosts that haunt their homes and attempt to exorcise the
spirits. I cut 5 shows for the series which involved
interviews, reconstructions and ultimately seances.
Fabulous Picture Show
Biweekly 30 mins for Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera’s film show revolves around a screening in a
London cinema. After the screening, the audience have a
chance to put their questions to the filmmaker. An hour
long Q&A is edited to around 4-5 mins. In 2007 I was
responsible for over a dozen shows, cutting packages and
bringing the show together, right through to legalised
online ready for tx. While cutting FPS, I also worked on
several episodes of Al Jazeera’s travel show ‘48’.
The Alternative Christmas Message (2006)
1x6 mins for Channel 4
Khadijah gives her Christmas message for
2006, reflecting on Jack Straw's outburst on veiled
muslims, the response to cartoons printed in a Danish
newspaper and the human cost of war.
Animal
Ark
1x30 mins for BBC 1
Brian Blessed takes us on a journey across Yorkshire and
North Lincolnshire to see endangered species including
Marsh Harriers, Red Kites, Great Crested Newts and Seals.
Real Families: Diary of
a Mother on the Edge
1 x 1 hour for ITV 1
Diary of a Mother on the Edge told the story of Henrietta Spink who cares, with her husband Michael, for their two severely disabled children Freddie and Henry.
Initially my role was to produce some test filming of the family requested by BBC's 'One Life' as they were uncertain about the subject matter. I spent 2 days with the family shooting with a PD150 and edited a 10 minute piece. The test peice was received so well that both ITV and BBC expressed interest.
I had role filming on the production before co-editing the programme.
Faith and Music: Series Five
12 x 1 hour for ITV 1
Faith and Music is a biography programme for ITV 1, fulfilling religious remit by discussing spirituality while exploring the artist's back catalogue of promo video and live performances which I filmed as well as edited.
Artists for series five included:
Skye (Morcheeba), Crispian Mills (Kula Shaker), Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), Leann Rimes, Neneh Cherry, Tunde (Lighthouse Family), Mica Paris, Toyah Wilcox, Paul Heaton (Beautiful South), Evelyn Glennie, Skin (Skunk Anansie), Kiri Te Kanawa.
Faith and Music IV: Rick Wakeman
1 x 30 mins ITV 1
