Somedays I like my job - I think I've said that before. Among all the boring financial conferences we do we sometimes get to do an interesting on and today was one of those.
Billed as "Nature's Narrator" the event at the Natural History Museum was basically a chat between Jonathan Dimbleby and Sir David Attenborough about the latters career which has now spanned 50 years. It was extremely interesting as it covered what was effectively the birth of natural history broadcasting.
There were clips from his TV programs and stories about his exploits capturing wild animals that had never been seen on film before. My personal favourite was the story of meeting the Gorillas. There was a clip of him sitting amongst them in the wild. We had to edit some of the footage this morning and to be honest some of the best stuff was left out.
The event was held in the Central Hall of the museum (where the dinosaur is) and we aren't allowed to start setting up until after the museum closes at 6pm which only gives us and hour and a half to set up the sound and projection and get everything tested and working. Plus I had to run through the running order and cues and show David Attenborough the edited clips. It can get quite stressful.
Getting home was a bugger even though I didn't leave the museum until 10:30 I still managed to get stuck in three different traffic jams and it was nearly 12:30 by the time I got back.
27/10/06 @ 02:01