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The
Jordan and Peter Series
Jordan
& Peter Laid Bare: Series Director,
Jan - March 2005
(10
x 50mins)
Spun Gold & Can Associates for ITV2
When
Jordan Met Peter: Producer/Director,
Oct - Dec 2004
(6
x 30mins)
Spun Gold & Can Associates for ITV1
Once
upon a time, there lived a surgically-enhanced model called Jordan.
For years she posed topless in tabloids and lad mags, becoming a
fantasy figure for millions of men all over the land. Alas their
wives and girlfriends had little time for the sexy provocateuse!
That
is until February 2004, when Jordan appeared in the third of ITV's
jungle reality series I'm
A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
In that environment, her sexy facade fell away, allowing millions of
viewers to discover the girl behind Jordan: Katie Price. The romance
that sparked between her and jungle bud Peter Andre, the 90s pop
star, caught the public imagination. It was inevitable that they
would feature in their very own docu-soap series, and I consider
myself lucky to have been involved in its production.
I
was offered the job of PD on the ITV1 show in September 2004,
working for my old Carlton TV executive producer Nick Bullen who had
just set up his own production company, Spun Gold TV. The venture was
to be a collaboration with Katie and Peter's management company Can
Associates, who had filmed nearly 100 hours of amateur Katie &
Peter home movies since March 2004.
A
decision was taken to use the majority of the back footage in the
ITV2 episodes, which would be themed around different aspects of
Katie and Peter's lives. This meant that new material featuring Katie
and Peter would have to be filmed for the ITV1 series, allowing each
episode to become a current, up-to-the-minute, self-contained story:
an engagement dinner, a family cruise, or a murder mystery fancy
dress party.
While
the bulk of the new material was generated on mini-DV by AP
shooters, there were several days of filming on multi-camera
Digi-Beta which I directed, including visits to Thorpe Park and
Disneyland Paris. I also directed the first few shoot days, which
included the family dinner party at which Peter cooked Steak Jordania
to celebrate his engagement to Katie. But the majority of my time was
spent in post production, especially upon my promotion to Series
Director for ITV2, during which time I worked with two fantastic editors.
Jane
Greenwood and I constructed two of the six ITV1 episodes (#2: The
Medium / The Murder Mystery Dinner; #5: The Ferrari / Christmas
Lights), while Penny Heighes and I created ITV2 episodes 1, 6, 8 and
10, which include an assessment of Katie & Peter's style, plus a
programme about Katie's son Harvey. You know what? I've enjoyed every
single, sexy, controversial minute of it!
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