I am on set with Emily and Leo and Ed shooting for India Season on Channel. We are in a secret location with some C4 celebrities and a whole load of animals. We fly on to India tomorrow with the whole crew and I just feel lucky to have been asked along. What a year so far.
It’s tough, but Gordon Ramsay has been hilarious and this afternoon he showed me how to slice veg up really quickly like on telly.
I was out with Tony Cullingham, Watford’s Advertising Jedi Master and Liz Harold (she’s the Uber creative recruitment consultant who helped me find my placement here after my St Martin’s show) on Friday. Liz and Tony told me lots about what I needed to do to progress from Intern to something more serious. It seems they actually read my blog. HELLO!
Richard Burdett was also there and talked at some length about a new campaign he had come up with for Horse and Country channel. The line went something like: If it dies, it’s in. Thanks for the invaluable advice. I liked particularly the bit about never returning to the office after a drunken lunch.
Jon Snow just arrived on set. I had better go.
That’s all for now! See you in Mumbai!!!
The INTERN
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INDIA!
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Nov 09
ED/PAT
This a quick thank you to Ed who has introduced me to the music of Pat Benetar.
Wicked.
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Nov 09
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Hello. I am back. I have spent the last few weeks in a sanitorium in Edmonton where doctors treated my guppy-like eye. The Channel 4 3D spectacles that went out in Sainsbury branches last week are only safe because of my work. I have only just returned to normal and it has been a hell of a journey. I hear 3D season has been fun though – Joseph the art director assures me that the TV spots and point of sale looked cool.
Onwards to India. This is the real point of getting writing again. We are in the middle of preparing to shoot in India for the Channel’s India season. I have been helping Phil (the Director) and Emily and Leo (creative team for press and poster) with mood boards and references and now I find myself on the team that is headed out to the location.
It’s all quite exciting. And yet daunting as I have only just regained my sight.
As I write I am tucking into some chocolate covered raisins which are disgusting. I thought they were chocolate covered peanuts. That’s a bad feeling, and yet I keep eating.
Alice and Jo are working on a new american show called Glee and also they have started up an after work salsa class which I am interested in too. Not salsa the dancing, salsa the stuff you put in burritos.
Brett has offered to do a guest spot on the breakfast burrito – his own take on this classic dish. Mmmm.
This is getting off the point of work but it all helps to paint a picture I’m sure.
