Dan Greenway Ltd Blog

Happy New Year everyone.

Feet havn’t touched the floor!  For the first time ever I had to work new years eve and new years day and nearly every day since!

It’s been great fun though, the new Ch4 quiz show “the bank job” seemed very popular and the final show was incredible with a big twist and an ending you just couldn’t make up, you can watch it again here:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-bank-job/4od#3275003

Our Bradley Engineering cameras were used for close up shots of the money and vault cases, the shots were used lots in the show and would have been impossible to get using heavier cameras due to the vault walls and bars.

Where do the hours and days go? It’s Christmas in less than a week! The Christmas run of Million Pound drop was great to work on, great fun doing the Channel 4 “Mash up” where all the presenters swap jobs, watch out for that coming up soon. As usual our Bradley Engineering minicam system worked well and provided all the overhead shots of the drops throughout the series. MPD will be back in full swing second week of Jan so make sure you tune in every Friday and Saturday night.
I also spent a very cold and windswept day at Longcross working for BMW last week filming BMW dealer videos. I provided 4 in car cameras which were rigged and de rigged more times than I could count. They had a Porsche Panamera which was an incredible car, sumptuous interior and fast as anything I’ve ever been in, but it’s a Diesel, a Porsche Diesel, really!
Anyway, got to dash, bit of late night kit preparation tonight getting ready for a long week of rehearsals in central London next week. dg

Well, far too long since I posted on here, I’ll try and make up for it now!
So much has gone on, house move, new baby, office relocation the list goes on and on!
Work wise the Goodwood Revival 2012 was amazing, we had inspired choices when it came to deciding which cars carried the in car cameras, our on board camera producer gave us a list and we attached a variety of Sony HXR MC1′s, GoPro’s and few smaller minicams to the allocated cars. As luck would have it the cars with the cameras attached had quiet a few battles and great bits of gesticulating by some of the drivers as they lost and gained positions.
We also attached a couple of cameras to the Spitfires which were incredible, we had watched them practising on the Thursday and when 11 of them went up on the Sunday it did not disappoint!
The weekend was made better by some good hospitality (thank you Chrysler) and having the mobile minicam workshop/gin palace just a few minutes walk from the circuit.
We had more high speed minicam action doing a great pilot at RAF Brentwaters a few weeks later. Fantastic stunt riders and pretty dramatic pyrotechnics at night, hard work getting great shots on the little cameras in the pitch black but we did eventually get some interesting shots.
Well thats all for now, check back soon and I promise to get some new videos on the youtube channel soon…..minicamdan

Is there such a thing as a quiet week in the office? Not in this office!

Although not much going on this week I have some Bradley Engineering cameras off to be rigged in a police station and four Panasonic HCK10 POVCAMS going out being used as in car cameras.

The rest of my time has been taken up quoting on a variety of weird and wonderful things around the globe, even had to sign an NDA for one of them, very secret squirrel!

Companies always say “you’ll have to sign an NDA” and then nothing comes of it, these guys seem pretty serious though.

Had a fantastic Goodwood FOS.

The program has gone out now but think it will be on again at the following times:

Tuesday 12^th July 20.00   ITV4

Saturday 16^th July 16:30  ITV4

Sunday 17^th July post-02:30 ITV1

Sunday 7^th August 18:00  ITV4

It will also be shown on “Sky Anytime” from now until whenever!

What a week Glasto was, the mud the heat the music!

Back in the office now catching up with everything that’s been on hold the last few days with Kool and the Gang playing on Iplayer.  Apart from the usual day to day admin I’m boxing up my new Panasonic POVCAM minicams that I bought last week before they go out on a long term hire.

Keep getting calls for more nano flash recorders but they are all out doing a variety of Reality shows and press junkets, seems that they are even more popular than ever.