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Updated: October 29, 2004 11:48 |
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This was high quality sound and this is what you hear on the TV. On the day of course, this was of no use to us. All we could hear was via a small earpiece. The quality of sound was at best poor and quite often the signal was non-existent. In theory I could hear both Annabel and Sarah, but in practice I very rarely heard Sarah. There were long periods where communications were lost and you had to just get on with it, based on what you have already heard. But it is worth realizing as you watch the programme that it doesn't sound like that to a contestant. The sound crew were particularly worried about being able to hear Sarah, and they talked to her about being in a very noisy environment later on. This would turn out to be when she was in the Sea King helicopter. They asked her if it got noisy to hold the clip mike up to her mouth. They were pleased that she remembered to do this - and you |
can see her on the programme doing this. The equipment was heavy, particularly the batteries, and were now given our backpacks again just to add to the weight !! After this long period of preparation and testing of the equipment, we were finally ready to be flown to our start positions. The cameramen and other crew had already been flown to their positions. So we got back into the Jet Ranger and with blindfolds on, we were flown off to our start positions. As you will have seen from the programme, Sarah was dropped off first at Saint Enodocs Church- that's why she sat on the left, so Jonathan could help her out from that side first.
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