London news Shooting Editing Video Upload UK

I am a multi-skilled cameraman, video reporter, editor and a specialist in information technolog. I can reach any central London location within minutes from the studio based in the City of London EC1 (close to ITN). I shoot a story. edit the ruches on a laptop at any location or back in the studio. Than the video is send directly from the laptop to any worldwide destination via the broadband internet.

With the experience of filming the London stories for over 20 years I also provide the journalists with the London’s know-how, research, travelling routes and stock shots of London.

Below the leading journalists tell their stories how the technical development benefit their work:

GaviHewitt, special correspondent for BBC news since 2000.
... There are huge new demands on camera operators whose job has changed out of all recognition. They have had to reskill to learn nonlinear editing and to get images into a state in which they can be transmitted.... They are still in the process of moving to nonlinear systems. I have total confidence in some but others are learning the technology. If they don't understand the way something works, under pressure, we have a problem. My job is to understand what the technology can do and adjust my work accordingly...

Martin Fewell, deputy editor, Channel 4 News.
...Whereas in a tape environment there was a lot of job demarcation between graphics, tape editors, camera ops and journalists, now we have one system which moves us to a point where most journalists are able to do all these jobs to some extent... There tends to be a split between a reporter with some production skills and a cameraman who is also a technician and editor. Journalists have expanded their roles - but in a fast-moving hostile situation the minimum team size is two..

Tim Marshall, Sky News' foreign affairs editor.
...We can simply plug a cable into the camera and download to Final Cut Pro... We were live for 50 minutes, feeding images straight from the camera to the internet and into Isleworth while riots were happening literally 20 yards away. Operating from a satellite truck would have offered neither the high vantage point or the safety of our position...

Alan Fisher is London correspondent for Al Jazeera English. ... Essentially you need a camera, laptop and a BGAN (broadband global area network) and you can report live from pretty much anywhere... The fact that we had very lightweight kit enabled us to broadcast from the camp rather than waiting until the end to file. The army would not have allowed us to bring in lots of heavyweight gear... Now the deadlines are hourly but technology allows us more control of the process on the road. You can edit it, package it to a certain degree and transmit live much faster than before... The fact that we can now do it much quicker keeps the story fresh...

The above quotes have been taken from the article: How to be first with the news at Broadcast (www.broadactnow.co.uk