Author: Kevin

Had a great weekend and looking forward to an even better week this week.  But its not like this for everyone apparently.

I know us Brits can be masters of the understatement but some of us really do need an injection of positive thinking.  Just got off the phone to one of my colleagues and it was one sob story after another.  Nothing was going right for them – and it was everyone else’s fault.

We can all look at the negative side of things but where does that get us? I was supposed to be filming at Claridge’s this afternoon but it was cancelled late last night by the client due to circumstances beyond their control.  I was also supposed to be spending a day out on Wednesday with this client checking out locations – but they have had to cancelled that too for the same reason.  However, soon after this call I had another booking me for three days in April, followed by an email for a job in Central London for tomorrow morning (which I can’t do – but glad I had the enquiry) and another conversation with a client that might lead to a day’s filming on Wednesday.  The spare time today also allowed me to finish of another proposal which is now sitting with the client waiting their reply.

Hey ho!  As one door closes another one seems to open at the moment.

Filmed the Eiger Safety (www.eiger-safety.co.uk) abseiling crew doing their thing at the Science Museum last night – this time with a paint brush in their hand dangling on ropes in a lift shaft.

These guys are seriously fit – and I don’t mean good looking!  Whilst it might look like they are just hanging around, there’s a fair bit of exertion in keeping yourself hanging in the right place so you can do the job you’re supposed to be doing.

 

This was the first filming session of many for Eiger Safety.  We’re going to be filming at Claridge’s on Monday – and we’ll then be doing a recce on another load of London locations on Wednesday.

I could get used to this corporate film making malarkey!

PS.  If anyone has a good mouse killing cat they don’t want they should get in touch with the museum.  As soon as the punters were chucked out the museum came alive with mice – which seemed to appear from every crack and crevice.

No, I’ve not gone all John Denver on you, I’ve just got everything together for my first corporate filming day tomorrow.

When I say “day” I actually mean night as I’ll be filming an abseiling company working in a stair well at the Science Museum.  Things obviously have to be done at night when the museum is closed to the public.  Hey – that sounds like a great plot for a film come to think of it!

Have a meeting with the MD beforehand to go through some of the other “challenging” locations we’ll be filming and photographing over the coming weeks (the roof on Oxford’s Christchurch Cathedral and the Clifton Suspension Bridge – to name but two).

Its a great one to get under my belt and the company (Eiger Safety – http://eiger-safety.co.uk/) are a great bunch of guys who are extremely talented and brave.  They are no strangers to the world of film/tv production either as they do a lot of the high-level risk work for the UK-based film studios (Harry Potter included).

Will keep you all updated on the progress on this one.  And before anyone says it, I won’t look down!