Capital Radio Jingle Bell Ball

A very busy weekend at the Capital radio Jingle Bell Ball sponsored by Microsoft Windows 7 at the O2 arena. We had to provide two pods to entertain guests before and during the concert. So one was set up for Green Screen, the other for Video.

Early start Saturday as I had the scarey job of photographing the stage. Scarey because I had the whole arean watching me and had to direct the lighting and get the big screens fired up to show Windows 7 and Capital FM's logos. Those screen refresh slowly so it was a tricky shoot in low light but the Nikon D700 coped as usual by cranking up the ISO, didnt even use a tripod! 

On the Green Screen pod we had a huge dressing up box and a couple of electric guitars. We photographed kids and sometimes parents in front of the Green Screen, then dropped them onto the concert stage with an overlay of a cheering crowd. Then we printed and mounted a photograph for each of them. These will be up at www.capitalradio/windows7.

The video pod was to celebrate MSN's 15th birthday, we filmed guests dressed up again in all manner of weird costumes wishing MSN a happy birthday. The best one gets to be featured in their advertising. It was a hard weekend, but great fun and well organised by Jeremy, Tania and Emma.

On the Sunday evening our crew were all allowed in to watch the concert whilst I volunteered to guard the equipment.