LOCATION WORK
A flexible, resourceful, and committed approach towards the establishment of work systems on location. The relevant people skills to implement productivity, whilst maintaining a conscience towards the location, environment, and community.
Dominican Republic:
Art Directing Channel 4 reality show. Implemntation of show designs, building a working village on remote beach location, and inventing and delivering stunts and projects. Road building to the location, liaisons with local authorities, Health and Safety, and Prop Supervision/making.
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1991 Turkey and Turkish Kurdustan:
Work and travel, performing in, and running bars, whilst hitchiking the width and breadth of modern Turkey.
Trinidad and Tobago:
Art Directing for award-winning BBC2 comedy ‘Operation Goodguys’. Building sets and designing effects in advance of the camera unit and the rest of the Art Department arriving. Building shelters on beaches, and sourcing all the best locations.
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Hackney, East london, and Solihull, West Midlands:
The Mindship public art project. Design of Art Installatiuon by Brigit Hegarty, for Freeform Arts Trust, in Touchwood shopping centre.
Coventry City Centre:
Filming of British Comedy Feature. Prop Master and Effects Designing in the heart of ancient Coventry, involving parades, pyrotechnics, and stunt rigs. Dropping a principal actor through a scenic loftspace floor, and running burning parade floats through the city centre, with retakes and resets. Great fun, with lots to thnk about.
Liberia Inland Mission (1988-89):
Short-term mission to Liberia during the lead-up to the outbreak of the notorious Liberian civil war. The most formative experience so far for me.
Project: To help with and accelerate the building of a school for Charlietown Mission Station, River Cess, Grand Bassa. Living in a mud house on what was then ‘the most isolated mission station known to the World Evangelisation Crusade’.
Reality: President of the day Samuel Doe was reaching all-time low in popularity, and infrastructure was in meltdown.
Result: We managed, with the help of Teen Missions International, to build most of the school. Project Management and involvement with community outreach was coupled with technical projects to saw timber and get a water supply to the compound.
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