Post by johnhenshall on Dec 16, 2011 15:02:44 GMT
Thank you to all of you who nominated me for my knighthood. I wondered who did.
Let's not pre-judge what they will do on TOTP2. Not long to wait and see. I've already made my feelings about voice overs, strap captions and wide-screening known. We can do no more.
If it is mucked up I will send those of you whom I met at BFI your own personal DVD in due course at no charge (otherwise that would be bootlegging). If you shared them on to other real friends I wouldn't mind. I know I wouldn't even have to ask you not to let those numpties who took delight in slagging me off get their hands on copies.
Hey Mike (Morton) stop beating yourself up about having told me about YouTube. I'm glad you did. And if the next version on YouTube (next Wednesday evening, no doubt) has captions and voiceover, the laugh will be on you, because you will be one of the first to receive a 'clean' copy. (Thank you for the photo you took of me when we worked together on Sigue Sigue Sputnik all those years ago.)
Chris (Barratt): Yes we did have a lot of input. We worked together with Producer/Director Johnnie Stewart as a creative team – he was like the conductor of an orchestra, we were the individual instruments. And I have him to thank for suggesting that I form Telefex to provide him with optical effects – filters, multi-image prisms, fisheyes, kaleidotubes, picture rotator ... the list goes on.
Co-incidentally Chris, I just wrote this to Mark Cooper, the BBC's Creative Head of Music Entertainment, this morning, in part saying "I must say that I am delighted that the work of myself and colleagues such as Senior Cameraman Ron Green (who died a couple of years ago) and Sound Supervisor Richard Chamberlain (who mixed this great Bowie live performance and is also now sadly gone) is being so highly regarded almost four decades later. We all worked with enthusiastic dedication alongside such greats as Johnnie Stewart and the team to deliver Top of the Pops every week. I know how proud Ron Green and Richard Chamberlain would have been today. I am proud to have been a part of it."
I now know Mark quite well and I can assure you that he has our music heritage very much at heart.
Let's not pre-judge what they will do on TOTP2. Not long to wait and see. I've already made my feelings about voice overs, strap captions and wide-screening known. We can do no more.
If it is mucked up I will send those of you whom I met at BFI your own personal DVD in due course at no charge (otherwise that would be bootlegging). If you shared them on to other real friends I wouldn't mind. I know I wouldn't even have to ask you not to let those numpties who took delight in slagging me off get their hands on copies.
Hey Mike (Morton) stop beating yourself up about having told me about YouTube. I'm glad you did. And if the next version on YouTube (next Wednesday evening, no doubt) has captions and voiceover, the laugh will be on you, because you will be one of the first to receive a 'clean' copy. (Thank you for the photo you took of me when we worked together on Sigue Sigue Sputnik all those years ago.)
Chris (Barratt): Yes we did have a lot of input. We worked together with Producer/Director Johnnie Stewart as a creative team – he was like the conductor of an orchestra, we were the individual instruments. And I have him to thank for suggesting that I form Telefex to provide him with optical effects – filters, multi-image prisms, fisheyes, kaleidotubes, picture rotator ... the list goes on.
Co-incidentally Chris, I just wrote this to Mark Cooper, the BBC's Creative Head of Music Entertainment, this morning, in part saying "I must say that I am delighted that the work of myself and colleagues such as Senior Cameraman Ron Green (who died a couple of years ago) and Sound Supervisor Richard Chamberlain (who mixed this great Bowie live performance and is also now sadly gone) is being so highly regarded almost four decades later. We all worked with enthusiastic dedication alongside such greats as Johnnie Stewart and the team to deliver Top of the Pops every week. I know how proud Ron Green and Richard Chamberlain would have been today. I am proud to have been a part of it."
I now know Mark quite well and I can assure you that he has our music heritage very much at heart.