Media Blog
To record or not to record
Media Dog continues to crew BBC’s 'To Buy or Not to Buy'.
Media Dog has been involved with BBC One’s long running daytime property show since season 4, now on series 8 Media Dog continues to provide crewing and equipment for this popular lifestyle hit. So if you want advise on crewing or the property market then just ask Media Dog.
Presenters Ian Blandford and Jenny Powell
New Big Cat meets Media Dog
Media Dog and the Sun once again got together to put Jaguars latest big cat through it’s paces. Media Dog was hired to produce a short film and provide still photographs for use by the Sun newspaper. The Jaguar C-FX is a concept car. This was a one off concept car worth £1million pounds. Rob and Mark have a long history of motoring journalism, Including ITV’s Revved Up, Pulling Power, Top Marques, Used Car Road Show, The Motor Show and many others most recently Channel Fives Fifth Gear, so we know what we a doing around concept cars.
Hear are our golden rules for filming a concept car.
1. Ask about the engine before you try to nail it. The car may look fast on the outside but it may only do 30mph, just enough to get it in and out of motor show arenas.
2. Don’t prang it. This can be very expensive, as you can’t just nip down to your local parts depot and get a new bumper, one would have to be specially made back at the manufacturers design studios, and you would be very unpopular.
3. Don’t slam the doors, if you do this bits a likely to fall off, this tends to make the car company’s PR people wince.
Media dog look forward to driving the 420bhp, supercharged V8 C-XF when it goes on sale this year starting from around £35.000.
Media Dog just got bigger
Well wider. As I spent a week filming BBC’s Countryfile Summer Dairies cookery segments. I spent a very enjoyable week at the BBC’s Devonshire base on Dartmoor filming two Michelin star chief Michael Caines. The end result was some entertaining TV for the BBC and a diet for me. This gave me a great opportunity to use our new (and very expensive) HMI lights to great effect.
Mark
Chef Michael Caines MBE
Try Michaels recipy for Devonshire vanilla ice cream and summefruit milkshakes
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/devonshirevanillaice_86530.shtml
A spark of inspiration
The more than legendary Kate Sparks has joined us here at Media Dog, Rob and I worked with her at ITV for years and enjoyed it so much that we offered her a job. Kate’s broadcast career spans more that 20 years and has seen her working with people like Roger Cook, Trevor McDonald and Benny from Crossroads. Kate joins Media Dog as our Business Manager, so if you’ve got some business that needs managing feel free to give her a call!
Mark
007 Heaven
Rob and I had a fab day at Aston Martin’s Headquarters when we got an exclusive ride in James Bonds new Aston Martin DBS, as used in the movie Casino Royale. The car one of two specially produced, was used for close-ups and driving shots in the film, while a further three shells were written off during high-speed driving stunts.
But if you’re desperate for a Bond car but can’t afford the £150,000 price tag, don’t despair as 007 drives the new Ford Mondeo in the opening scene, available at a much more sensible price. Rob’s only regret is that he didn’t come across any bond girls.
Mark
Ich did’t weiB das
Translated ‘I Didn’t know That’, National Geographic channels fun but informative science programme has gone worldwide. The show in which scientists Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips explain the extraordinary workings of everyday objects is crewed by Media Dog and now goes out in more than 120 different countries around the globe.
Media Dog Saves Planet Earth
We have sent Mark off to save planet earth, sporting some rather fetching waders as he goes in search of some endangered species for the BBC’s flagship natural History programme ‘Saving Planet Earth’.
Rob
New Offices
Media Dog has relocated.
We are now based at 93-96 Floodgate Street in the heart of Birmingham’s creative sector - Digbeth. You can find us here:
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|b55sr
