posted by Yonner -
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Gonna be on the Tele .... (again!)
Today was quite exciting in a slightly "de ja vous" kind of way. A TV crew descended upon my life (again) and proceeded to poke and prod at my life (again) until I was left feeling used, exploited and humiliated. Anyway, I'm lieing of course - I loved the attention and would do it all again anytime. Photos and stuff below...
So here's a few photos that I took throughout the day. I also took some video footage which I will no doubt edit into a new video diary when I can be bothered. I currently have a long list of things labelled "need to do, but can't be bothered". So I'll add this video to somewhere in the middle of that list. Incidentally, other items on that list include editing 3 separate wedding videos for friends/relatives (ugh!), tax the car, paint the bathroom and improve personal hygiene. That last item has been on the list for at least 5 years now and it just won't go away!!
Anyway, I digress!
Here's the motley crew that turned up on my doorstep getting the neighbours all excited.
The lady on the right in the photo above is the producer, Katy (not Kate). She's probably saying something like "can we do that again but with more va va voom" or words to that effect.
The next photo is the soundman:
Doesn't he look like he loves his job? [mental note: don't go into sound engineering - very poor job satisfaction!]
And here's the cameraman for the day (he kept calling me a "blogger" like it was an insult - like, he'd say "oi blogger get out the way" or something like that. It was quite chucklesome actually :)
Point of interest: He's pointing that camera right into my bedroom window where the TV presenter (Dom) is lurking with a microphone ready to peep through the curtains after his cue and say "This bedroom stinks!!!". Well, he didn't say that actually, but he was probably thinking it :)
...and for those of you out there who are bursting to find out what's in the back of a cameraman's van, well here's a photo that I know will excite you beyond reasonable levels:
Yeah? excited? good!
And then we moved onto my warehouse down the road where I store some pianos.
[lie]Turns out they wanted me to record a full album's worth of musical material that they are going to send to the X-Factor producers - THANKS GUYS!!! [/lie]
Here's me enjoying the limelight:
I also had to sit through an interview which lasted about an hour or more and went pretty well, although I know I'll still come out of it looking/sounding like a gimp!! - incidentally, the cameradude said I sounded like Gary Barlow from the boyband "take that" and whilst we're on about lookalikes they also told me I looked like Michael Owen, Noel Gallagher and Marlon Dingle from Emmerdale.
So.... I think the below photo is the mental image that they all have of me:
Gee, thanks chaps!
And now, the obligatory "can I have my photograph taken with you please?" shot:
Cheers Dom!
My neighbour/friend/personal chef Tracey from next door saw Dom on the street and was all like "Hey, look, I saw him on the telly last night!!" DEEP BREATHS TRACEY!!
Whilst I'm on about neighbours, there was also donna and jamie from next door (to the left), tracey, ella and olivia from the other next door, some other girly who I don't know, and a couple of neighbourhood cats all huddled around watching the TV people do their TV thing. It was quite an event. Shame everyone else was at work really.
OK, too much blabbering, not enough photographs, I know, I'm sorry. I'm trying!! OK, what next...
OK, so the lighting/cameraman did his lighting thing and I was acused of taking a photo of his bellybutton:
I plead "very not guilty" to the charges of bellybutton photographing. OK, what next?
Ah yes, the soundman spent some of the time playing the piano (rather nicely too, I might add.... cough/snigger)
...and some of the time just generally scratching himself:
OK, what else. Ah yes, I found it quite interesting that these TV people were actually able to harness the power of the moon and bring it indoors to illuminate the... uhm... set.
Mysterious Moon Photo #1
Mysterious Moon Photo #2
I can't fully explain how they managed it but it seems as if that angular object on the right has something to do with it because it is present in both of the "mysterious moon" shots. It doesn't really matter how they did it, the point is that it worked very well.
OK, looking down my list I appear to have now used up all the photos from today. I did take some video footage too but that will have to wait until another day or something or other perhaps. Sorry to Ross and Helen for not putting any photos of them up yet - hopefully you'll both be on the pending video instead!!
UPDATE!!!
Yes, so, the whole reason that these strange people came pointing strange cameras at me and asking strange questions with their strange accents and strange..... OK I've run out of strange things but anyway, the reason these nice people were hear is because a while back I filmed (video camera'd?) a policeman assaulting a member of the public. It got all over the TV news and stuff and then it died away. Now occasionally, a media company will want to make a TV program about police brutality or about home movie vigilantes or something like that and so they check their archives and realise that they want to use my video and also interview me for their "piece". So I get an occasional request for permission to use the footage and to interview me. Sometimes I say "no" and sometimes I say "yeah go on then". This time, I got a good vibe about what they wanted to do with the footage so I said "yeah go on then" and so they all turned up on my doorstep today. OK, so there we go, you're all up to date now. Sorry that I told you the introduction at the end of this post instead of the beginning but this is my blog and I make up the rules. If you don't e-like it, you know where the e-door is. e-thank you!
So here's a few photos that I took throughout the day. I also took some video footage which I will no doubt edit into a new video diary when I can be bothered. I currently have a long list of things labelled "need to do, but can't be bothered". So I'll add this video to somewhere in the middle of that list. Incidentally, other items on that list include editing 3 separate wedding videos for friends/relatives (ugh!), tax the car, paint the bathroom and improve personal hygiene. That last item has been on the list for at least 5 years now and it just won't go away!!
Anyway, I digress!
Here's the motley crew that turned up on my doorstep getting the neighbours all excited.
The lady on the right in the photo above is the producer, Katy (not Kate). She's probably saying something like "can we do that again but with more va va voom" or words to that effect.
The next photo is the soundman:
Doesn't he look like he loves his job? [mental note: don't go into sound engineering - very poor job satisfaction!]
And here's the cameraman for the day (he kept calling me a "blogger" like it was an insult - like, he'd say "oi blogger get out the way" or something like that. It was quite chucklesome actually :)
Point of interest: He's pointing that camera right into my bedroom window where the TV presenter (Dom) is lurking with a microphone ready to peep through the curtains after his cue and say "This bedroom stinks!!!". Well, he didn't say that actually, but he was probably thinking it :)
...and for those of you out there who are bursting to find out what's in the back of a cameraman's van, well here's a photo that I know will excite you beyond reasonable levels:
Yeah? excited? good!
And then we moved onto my warehouse down the road where I store some pianos.
[lie]Turns out they wanted me to record a full album's worth of musical material that they are going to send to the X-Factor producers - THANKS GUYS!!! [/lie]
Here's me enjoying the limelight:
I also had to sit through an interview which lasted about an hour or more and went pretty well, although I know I'll still come out of it looking/sounding like a gimp!! - incidentally, the cameradude said I sounded like Gary Barlow from the boyband "take that" and whilst we're on about lookalikes they also told me I looked like Michael Owen, Noel Gallagher and Marlon Dingle from Emmerdale.
So.... I think the below photo is the mental image that they all have of me:
Gee, thanks chaps!
And now, the obligatory "can I have my photograph taken with you please?" shot:
Cheers Dom!
My neighbour/friend/personal chef Tracey from next door saw Dom on the street and was all like "Hey, look, I saw him on the telly last night!!" DEEP BREATHS TRACEY!!
Whilst I'm on about neighbours, there was also donna and jamie from next door (to the left), tracey, ella and olivia from the other next door, some other girly who I don't know, and a couple of neighbourhood cats all huddled around watching the TV people do their TV thing. It was quite an event. Shame everyone else was at work really.
OK, too much blabbering, not enough photographs, I know, I'm sorry. I'm trying!! OK, what next...
OK, so the lighting/cameraman did his lighting thing and I was acused of taking a photo of his bellybutton:
I plead "very not guilty" to the charges of bellybutton photographing. OK, what next?
Ah yes, the soundman spent some of the time playing the piano (rather nicely too, I might add.... cough/snigger)
...and some of the time just generally scratching himself:
OK, what else. Ah yes, I found it quite interesting that these TV people were actually able to harness the power of the moon and bring it indoors to illuminate the... uhm... set.
Mysterious Moon Photo #1
Mysterious Moon Photo #2
I can't fully explain how they managed it but it seems as if that angular object on the right has something to do with it because it is present in both of the "mysterious moon" shots. It doesn't really matter how they did it, the point is that it worked very well.
OK, looking down my list I appear to have now used up all the photos from today. I did take some video footage too but that will have to wait until another day or something or other perhaps. Sorry to Ross and Helen for not putting any photos of them up yet - hopefully you'll both be on the pending video instead!!
UPDATE!!!
Yes, so, the whole reason that these strange people came pointing strange cameras at me and asking strange questions with their strange accents and strange..... OK I've run out of strange things but anyway, the reason these nice people were hear is because a while back I filmed (video camera'd?) a policeman assaulting a member of the public. It got all over the TV news and stuff and then it died away. Now occasionally, a media company will want to make a TV program about police brutality or about home movie vigilantes or something like that and so they check their archives and realise that they want to use my video and also interview me for their "piece". So I get an occasional request for permission to use the footage and to interview me. Sometimes I say "no" and sometimes I say "yeah go on then". This time, I got a good vibe about what they wanted to do with the footage so I said "yeah go on then" and so they all turned up on my doorstep today. OK, so there we go, you're all up to date now. Sorry that I told you the introduction at the end of this post instead of the beginning but this is my blog and I make up the rules. If you don't e-like it, you know where the e-door is. e-thank you!
