30.4.10

WASHINGTON STATE, USA - MARCH 2009

Life is an Adventure.

FILMING FOR THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S 'RAGING PLANET - BLIZZARD'.

Drama reconstruction of the experience of Canada's North Shore Rescue Team in a Blizzard on Mount Logan. Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada and towers up from the Yukon. It was too dangerous for us to return to the location for filming and so we took advantage of all the snow that Mount St Helens National Park offered us.
Production Meeting in the snow! Panic to get our snow gear on - it wasn't snowing like this at the bottom of the road. With elevation came more snow than I'd ever seen before!
And so filming began.

Every good shoot should have a mascot like Smokey the park ranger!

 
Considering it took 2 men to get the snow machine on to my shoulders I do wonder how they trusted me to operate it at all!

This shoot was incredibly intense and stressful for so many reasons - shooting up a mountain with no cell signal, uncontrollable amounts of snow continuously falling, health and safety paperwork coming out of my ears, a massive team of art directors, runners, make up artists, machine operators..... And all this was after arriving at our original location 6 hours north to find that there wasn't any snow!

And after all of that.... on we went to Utah to do it all again!

27.4.10

CAPE VERDE OCTOBER 2008

Life is an Adventure.

FILMING FOR DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S 'RAGING PLANET - HURRICANE' .


Filming pieces to camera with one of the world's leading hurricane experts about the birth of hurricanes.


Cape Verde was incredible. Wonderful people and great food. A really exhausting shoot though traveling from island to island.
We flew from London via Portugal and on to the island of Santiago. Slept for a few hours and then boarded a private plane to fly us to the island of Sao Vicente. From Sao Vicente we got a ferry to the island of Santo Antao. Filmed like crazy for a few days and then caught another private plane to the island of Sal. From Sal we flew home to London.

26.4.10

TAIWAN - SEPTEMBER 2008

Life is an Adventure.


SHOOTING FOR DISCOVERY CHANNELS 'RAGING PLANET - HURRICANE'


Filming in the region of Hualien on the east coast of Taiwan.
We filmed in the beautiful Taroko Gorge and the surrounds.



Once we had completed our planned filming we got word of an area that had been hit hard by the typhoon that had bulldozed through days before our arrival.
We set off on a tough journey to the mountainous region of Lushan.


After an incredible time in Taiwan we had time for one last meal in the incredible capital city of Taipei before bidding a sad farewell to an incredible country.