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Updated: October 29, 2004 11:47 |
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The next day, we were up early on a beautiful sunny day. We were a short time away from the real action now. The first step was for us to get to the helicopters to be flown off to our real start positions. All of the helicopters and production crew were based at a farm just outside Port Isaac up the hill to the West of the town. To get there, Ellie drove us in my car. As we neared Port Isaac, we had to put the blindfolds on and we passed through Port Isaac oblivious to where we were. We were not allowed to see where Annabel would be located for the programme - not that it would have helped us much. Once we arrived at the farm outside Port Isaac our blindfolds came off and we were able to witness the hive of activity. This was the main communications center and a huge crane acting as a mast was supporting a number of communications |
aerials. Helicopters were flying in and out ferrying people to various locations in preparation for the days shooting. Once at the farm, we were kitted up with our communications packs. We had two packs, which were both quite heavy. One pack had a headset with an earpiece and a boom microphone. This allowed us to communicate with Annabel and each other. The other pack operated via a clip-on microphone which you can see clipped onto our jackets, and that recorded our voices via a transmitter back to each of our cameramen. My cameraman was Glenn Wilkinson. Sarah's cameraman was Andy Watt. So Glenn's camera was also recording my sound as well as the pictures.
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