michaeljsanders.bsky.social
London based Doco DOP who also does a bit of editing and directing. Drinks coffee, cooks a good roast and likes cameras.
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The problem with advertising is that to be really effective it has to be so in your face that many people refuse to use it. A lot of the local U.K. newspapers are impossible to read there’s so much.
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Well er they’ve done the research and many have come to the conclusion a paywall is the best way to keep people paying for news - which is incredibly expensive to produce.
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Serious question: how does news pay for itself without them?
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Or more likely it was a BBC model B or Master fed into a vision mixer.
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I got biscuit line technical operator the other day.
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My favourite game is trying to date the Ep of TOTP by the digital effects.
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You are meant to soak salt cod before cooking it.
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Great work!
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You should get a job with one of the broadcasters in the obituaries dept.
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Considering the effort of the team went to for everything else it seems like a weird miss.
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Loving Brian and Maggie - apart from the geek in me that winces everytime I see the shot of the TV on top of a DigiBeta VTR - which wasn’t invented till the late 90s
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It depends how it’s done. The changes they have made around Covent Garden for instance mean in some situations you now have to travel further - so seemingly very little reason.
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Albeit still important in the running of the city.. (TV crews more or less so depending on your POV).
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Probably more that you think..
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It’s great - until you are a plumber, builder, a/c engineer, TV camera crew or anyone who has to has to lug heavy kit into a central London
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Of course it is. These ideas and beliefs are multiplying - that’s why we got Brexit and why reform did so well at the elections. Unless we challenge them how do we explain the realities? Ignoring something doesn’t make it go away.
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Why can’t it do both? The fact that some of the UKs best actors and playwrights have learned their craft whilst working on BBC radio and TV inc soaps would seem to prove Kate is wrong.
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That’s the point - the public and politicians need to hold these people to account, it’s never has been for the broadcasters to do it.
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I was hoping you were going to be called.
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Started in TV in 1988 and saw my first Avid in 97. I say no. There was a bit of confusion as everyone tried to get their heads around a new way of working and getting people to understand the changes it would bring. But on the whole a most were excited about it.
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After talking about the horrors of her early life, she spent the rest of the time telling many many jokes (some decidedly blue!), laughing herself and making the entire crew laugh.
It was her way of surviving, but it gave myself and the rest of the crew a much needed boost and a feeling of hope.
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But of all the encounters the one I will remember the most is an elderly woman who had survived the Warsaw Getto.
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But even just hearing fragments of stories makes me realise just how lucky I am to be here.
Over the years I have had the overwhelming privilege to film with many holocaust survivors, including the amazing Eva Kor for Channel 4’s “The Girl Who Forgave the Nazis”.
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Sadly I do not think we will ever find out the whole truth about my family, but we know some relatives lost their lives in the Holocaust.
Like many others of that generation, my grandparents never really spoke about that time, and over time the extended family drifted apart.
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However, we recently discovered that our grandmothers cousin was taken to the Sachsenhausen prison camp, but was allowed to leave on the grounds they leave Germany right away and they to settled in the UK.
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To this day we still are not entirely sure what he did in the war as some of his records are still redacted. He told various relatives snippets of stories that don't quite add up.
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Around 1940, despite now having a family my grandfather was taken along with many other German men to the interment camp on the Isle of Man. He was released in 1941/42 (we aren’t sure) and promptly joined the British Army.
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Seeing their world change, my grandparents took the decision to leave their home and to seek a better life elsewhere.
After a spell in other European countries, they arrived in the UK in Feb 1934.
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Recently we have begun to learn much more about my own family’s history.
My father’s parents were Jewish who were both born in Germany. In 1933 my grandfather was a newly qualified lawyer when he was told that as a Jew he would now not be allowed to practice in Berlin.
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Even when you hear the worst stories which might not make the edit, you understand how important it is that those stories are recorded for history.
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Every filmmaker should watch Lost in La Mancha, the documentary about Terry Gilliam trying to make Don Quixote.
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Pears and Stilton.
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Brilliant work! Keep on going.
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Be interesting to try this with Worx4 compacting projects.
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The Astera bulbs are really good and very handy to have on standby. Also the small units from Rosco DMG are great to augment practicals.
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Surely if they have decided to move the actual inauguration inside the crews can be as well.
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Something must have happened to Noel Fielding, there’s no way you start production on a show like this without working with the agent to clear their availability.
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I’ve had a lot of trouble with my DJI drone creating files with the wrong time and date, I wonder if that’s somehow linked.
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Thank you.
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I’m thinking especially about flu etc.
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Is there an argument to pivoting to some kind of care at home? Sending triage doctors instead of ambulances to peoples homes? Or is there just not the staff?