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Preston Caribbean Carnival 2009

Neil — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:10:22 +0000

Preston enjoyed Caribbean weather for its 35th annual Caribbean Carnival. I was there to take some images for Viva TV who have put together an nice video piece about the carnival which can be viewed here.

I have put some of the images on Flickr which can be viewed here. If you want to see them as a slide show go here.

Prince’s Trust Event

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:08:06 +0000

During the ‘Children in Need’ 2007 campaign, Martin Ainscough generously bid for the services of Aled Jones and Katie Melua for an evening of entertainment. Martin quickly offered the services of Aled and Katie to the Princes Trust who, in turn, organised a marvelous charity event in Cheshire billed as ‘An Evening with Aled and Katie’. We were booked to cover the event by Southport PR company ‘Concept Communications’. MD of Concept Communications, Margaret Tarpey wrote a great testimonial which was especially well received by us because of Margaret’s experience in the industry.

Email from Concept Communications

Katie Melua

Aled Jones performing on stage

Rachael, Judith and Martin Ainscough

Jenny McAlpine and Antony Cotton

William Roach MBE and Sarah Roach

Joanne Rowden and Sarah Jane Buckley (Holyoaks)

Katie Beckham, Margaret Tarpey and Aled Jones

Andrew Donaldson, Dean Sullivan and Jane Casson

The Great Northern Cook Off – Part 2 – The Heats Are On

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:13 +0000

Here it is, the second installment of The Great Northern Cook Off ‘Heats’ at South Trafford College. Now it is time to see if our teams have listened to the chefs and can turn out the dishes as they were intended.

Putting this installment together has been great fun when we have had such good footage to work with and such a nice bunch of people to film.Everyone featured in the films got on with their cooking leaving us spoiled for choice for what to put in.

There is still loads of good footage and plenty of out-takes which will get an airing at the final awards dinner in September so if you (or yours) don’t appear in these films you may do in future ones. In the mean time please enjoy this film. If you want to find out more about the competition you can go to The Great Northern Cook Off. If you missed the first film and are wondering what all this is about see my earlier post.

The Great Northern Cook Off

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:51:23 +0000

We had a busy few day’s filming and photographing “The Great Northern Cook Off” heats. The event organised by Inspiring Events of Altrincham is now in its second year. The opening heats gave teams their first chance to do battle in the kitchens of South Trafford College. Contestants had a one hour demonstration by Chef’s Thomas Ludecke and Stephen Heaton, on how to prepare the 3 course set menu on which they would be judged.

We had a 3 crew team photograph and video the event.

See how the contestants approached the competition and the challenge that awaited them. Come back to see how they faired and who will go through to the next round. (Next video coming soon.)