Projects


Writer Simon Nye, best known for Men Behaving Badly,


turned his writing


talents to boys behaving badly last month in CBBC’s latest children’s drama – an adaptation of Richmal Crompton’s classic children’s tales Just William. The four-part series, which aired on BBC1 at


Christmas, featured an impressive line up of talent both in front of and behind the camera, from Warren Clarke and Caroline Quentin to Outnumbered’s ten- year-old Daniel Roche, who played the title role. Behind the camera was director of photography Erik


Wilson, a newcomer to working with children and to the 9000, which was supplied by 24-7 Drama. “I believe each job has a camera that is perfect. In this case it was the 9000, which had everything we wanted.” Shot in just 28 days on location in the Home


Counties, one of the benefits was the camera’s ability to operate both indoors and outdoors – an asset on


a production in which there were a lot of hand held work. The crew managing to shoot between six and eight minutes of footage a day – a decent amount on a drama production. A rugged one-piece body with self-contained HDCAM SR recording deck, the 9000 offers the same imaging performance as the F23. “I liked it a lot,” recalls Wilson. “It has the look and the feel of the F23 or F35 but in one box. You don’t have to carry anything extra like a deck and cabling.” “I noticed an enormous difference in the quality


of the pictures straight away. The camera is forgiving, which means that you don’t need to balance as much to retain detail within the shadows and highlights. It offers a wide spectrum which you can bring back in the grade. All things considered, it’s the best version of a 2/3 inch chip camera that I’ve seen.”


Winter 2011 theproducer 21


BOYS BEHAVING BADLY Just William director of photography Erik Wilson recounts his first encounter with the SRW-9000


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