Caught one of the BBC Young Talent of the Year episodes we shot in September - Andy and the camera boys from Bruizer made an old aircraft hangar look a lot more stylish than it did in reality :)

Some more shooting with a much older and wiser cameraman friend of mine this week - lots of people with great stories in this industry, but fewer and fewer who can say they started life projecting rushes for Hitchcock...

I was in a meeting in the BBC’s White City media centre this week, in the TARDIS meeting room, trying to play down my unreasonable level of excitement at being in a room with old cyberman heads from the 80s... Can’t imagine how people actually get work done in there.

Over the last three weeks, I’ve been travelling to a studio in Suffolk to join the Bruizer boys on BBC Young Talent of the Year 2010.

George Lamb presents, and over five shows, groups of young people compete to be best of their trade - this year it was plumbers, butchers, hairdressers, fishmongers and beauticians. It’s on in the autumn season.

It’s one of those jobs that, after rigging, settles into a routine for each show, so one can concentrate on the content a bit, and try to learn something. As each trade had long challenges to compete on, there was an opportunity to find out some of the technical ins and outs of the jobs, which was extremely interesting (especially the butcher and fishmonger shows, where I previously didn’t appreciate the difference between buying from a specialist or a supermarket).

Every time I work out in Suffolk, I’m reminded what lovely countryside there is out there, and what small roads. As the days ended quite late, I did lots of country lanes in darkness and rain, and narrowly avoided redecorating my car in deerskin on one occasion. At least, the deer strolled off quite happily, and apart from a bit of broken plastic on the headlight guard, the car was fine. Good job I was doing a sensible speed rather than the allowable limit...