My Chim on Fifth Gear on TV
Discussion
Yesterday I spent the whole day with the Production Team and Tiff Needell shooting footage for a future episode of Fifth Gear to be shown on Discovery Channel later in the year.
Theme of the show was affordable high performance cars under £10,000.
For this episode they chose a Caterham 7, Honda S2000 and TVR Chimaera.
Here are a few photo's from the days shooting.
Locations were Ramp & Wrench in Coventry and Bulls Head in Meriden
This was the line up............
Tiff "inspecting the chassis" to camera
Tiff and the crew prepping the Chim ready for the road test
Tiff returning from road test
Theme of the show was affordable high performance cars under £10,000.
For this episode they chose a Caterham 7, Honda S2000 and TVR Chimaera.
Here are a few photo's from the days shooting.
Locations were Ramp & Wrench in Coventry and Bulls Head in Meriden
This was the line up............
Tiff "inspecting the chassis" to camera
Tiff and the crew prepping the Chim ready for the road test
Tiff returning from road test
blaze_away said:
SJS357 said:
Nice one Frank 
Look forward to seeing it.
Maybe an update when it's on later in the year.
Simon.
Hi Simon.........we must get together and do your shoot !!Look forward to seeing it.
Maybe an update when it's on later in the year.
Simon.
They said it will be, maybe, late this year.
Just give us the nod
I have to applaud Alex "theaxe" on here for posting the opportunity last week, he was the spark that ignited the fire on this one, good shout Alex, cheers.
Had a great time, the production team were very professional and highly skilled individuals, Tiff is much as you see him TV, thoroughly nice fella.
Patience of all of them was sorely tried when every time my car was started it stopped all the go-pro camera's dead. Very strange phenomenom, main recording box was sat on lap of the Director in the passenger seat, all of the cameras working fine, then Tiff fires up the engine and they all shut down recording, move the box outside the car and all is fine again. Happened a dozen times on the trot. Must be some sort of RF interference, maybe from the ECU, the immobiliser, or something else in or around the footwell, who knows ??
Had a great time, the production team were very professional and highly skilled individuals, Tiff is much as you see him TV, thoroughly nice fella.
Patience of all of them was sorely tried when every time my car was started it stopped all the go-pro camera's dead. Very strange phenomenom, main recording box was sat on lap of the Director in the passenger seat, all of the cameras working fine, then Tiff fires up the engine and they all shut down recording, move the box outside the car and all is fine again. Happened a dozen times on the trot. Must be some sort of RF interference, maybe from the ECU, the immobiliser, or something else in or around the footwell, who knows ??
blaze_away said:
I have to applaud Alex "theaxe" on here for posting the opportunity last week, he was the spark that ignited the fire on this one, good shout Alex, cheers.
Had a great time, the production team were very professional and highly skilled individuals, Tiff is much as you see him TV, thoroughly nice fella.
Patience of all of them was sorely tried when every time my car was started it stopped all the go-pro camera's dead. Very strange phenomenom, main recording box was sat on lap of the Director in the passenger seat, all of the cameras working fine, then Tiff fires up the engine and they all shut down recording, move the box outside the car and all is fine again. Happened a dozen times on the trot. Must be some sort of RF interference, maybe from the ECU, the immobiliser, or something else in or around the footwell, who knows ??
Well done mate...sounds like a fun day...interesting to see that you used the BZ...what was the thought process behind that?Had a great time, the production team were very professional and highly skilled individuals, Tiff is much as you see him TV, thoroughly nice fella.
Patience of all of them was sorely tried when every time my car was started it stopped all the go-pro camera's dead. Very strange phenomenom, main recording box was sat on lap of the Director in the passenger seat, all of the cameras working fine, then Tiff fires up the engine and they all shut down recording, move the box outside the car and all is fine again. Happened a dozen times on the trot. Must be some sort of RF interference, maybe from the ECU, the immobiliser, or something else in or around the footwell, who knows ??
These things take ages...make sure you get the footage....I was promised footage by the BBC from my bit with Alfie Boe and Fern Brittain and got nothing despite being promised it ....hey ho all a learning experience....
schimg said:
Well done mate...sounds like a fun day...interesting to see that you used the BZ...what was the thought process behind that?
These things take ages...make sure you get the footage....I was promised footage by the BBC from my bit with Alfie Boe and Fern Brittain and got nothing despite being promised it ....hey ho all a learning experience....
Cheers Steve, BZ (Bulls Head....) was chosen by Tiff, pure coincidence.....he drove past it the previous day and just thought it would be a good place for the shoot, quite some coincidence really.These things take ages...make sure you get the footage....I was promised footage by the BBC from my bit with Alfie Boe and Fern Brittain and got nothing despite being promised it ....hey ho all a learning experience....
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