No April Fools

What a day it has been news wise. Firstly, during the day I was glued to the rolling news channels as they brought coverage of the G20 protests in London. Two thoughts ran through my head while I watched.

It must have been great being a burglar in London today. All the police seemed to be in the city centre.  And why were they targeting the RBS?  As a tax payer they own that building. Saying that, they probably don’t pay tax as they clearly didn’t have jobs to go to.

Watching the #G20 hashtag on Twitter provided excellent commentary while I watched the TV.

And then on my walk to work at around 2 o’clock, Twitter once again proved to be an invaluable tool for news coverage, breaking the story of a helicopter crashing in the North Sea a while before anyone else had it.

It didn’t take long for this story to over shadow my G20 watching.

It took a few hours for it to be confirmed that there had been at least 8 casualties (still the confirmed number at the time of writing) but by the time 7 o’clock came I was handling on air a massive tragedy to hit the North East.

Fingers crossed tomorrow is a little more peaceful.

Celtic Identity Film

As mentioned a few days ago, here’s Simon’s Celtic Identify Film for the Celtic Media Festival.

From a presenting point of view, I’m quite proud of it.

Particular highlights:

0:21″ – The arms out shot. It’s this part that will land me a job on Blue Peter.

0:29″ – The Whisky was actually watered down Irn Bru. We could have made it more realistic with real Whisky, I am over 18 after all.

0:50″ – Looking rather uncomfortable in this shot.

Celtic Film Festival

A still from the Celtic Identity film at the beach in Aberdeen

If you are heading to the Celtic Media Festival in Wales sometime between now and the weekend, lookout for the section on one minute Celtic Identity films.  The above still shot was from a film made by my college colleague Simon Rochfort and features me as presenter.  I’m not sure if, when or where it will be shown, but it’s worth a watch none the less.

People often say “David, do you prefer doing TV or Radio?”. I’ll let you be the judge of that when I tell you that on the first day of filming for the One minute film, we managed to get a whopping 18 seconds of usable footage.  They don’t call me “David one take Lewis” for nothing.

I’ll stick the film up here to watch once the festival is over.  It will also double up as my Blue Peter audition tape should I ever feel the need to apply.

David

P.S. As you can see from above, it’s impossible to get a decent looking still from the film.  But trust me, it looks good when watching it.