TV LOCATION COORDINATOR

My Services

  • Research
  • Location scouting
    eg. for reconstruction scenes. ("saigen")
  • Setting up filming permission
    for museums, art galleries, private houses, parks, castles, universities,special events, interviews etc.
  • Transport
    I drive my own 7-seater Toyota Previa, so no extra driver is needed. I can organize additional transport if necessary.
  • Interpreting & translation
    for interviews, narration information etc.
  • Hiring local staff & facilities
    (cameraman, soundman, hair/make-up artist, lighting electrician, grip; NTSC or High Definition camera equipment, lighting equipment, helicopters, grip equipment such as dollies or cranes etc.)
  • Casting of local actors
    & extras, hiring of props & costumes etc.
  • Acquiring archive film material
    eg. from BBC, Reuters etc., or stills images from picture libraries; clearing permission for their use in Japanese TV programmes.
  • Organizing accommodation and meals etc & generally looking after the crew & celebrities
  • If necessary, appearing in front of the camera myself!

Basically, anything you want I can fix!

Examples of programmes I've worked on, for NHK and the independent networks (TBS, TV Asahi, Nihon TV, Fuji TV, Mainichi Hoso etc):

  • The British Museum Series
  • NHK 20th Century Series
  • The Pacific War
  • World Journey from the Heart
  • Album of Famous Music
  • Human University
  • People's Planet
  • Wonderful World Trip
  • World Heritage
  • Discovery of the World's Mysteries
  • Homestays round the World
  • So you think you know
  • Song of the Gods
  • Passionate Continent
  • Great Masters of Art
  • Sekiguchi's Book Paradise
  • NHK Eurasian Empires
  • Astonishing News around the World
  • World Ballroom Dancing Championships with Kiyotaka Nambara & Aya Sugimoto
  • NHK Wandering around the Cities of the World
  • Sekawara 99
  • Letters from Heaven, with Hiroyuki Ehara
  • The Honeymoon Breakfast
  • The Dawn of Gaia
  • Waratte Koraete
  • Research on the World's Millionaires
  • World Merry-Go-Round
  • Pochitama Pet Programme

Production companies I've often worked with:

  • TV Man Union
  • TBS Vision
  • Nikkei Visual Images
  • Amazon
  • East
  • Nexus
  • Office Two One
  • Group Gendai Films
  • NHK Enterprises 21
  • NHK Kyouiku
  • NHK Creative
  • .. and other departments of NHK
  • Ange de Beaute
  • Ryu Enterprises
  • Zippy Productions
  • Acro
  • D-Complex
  • Haxen International
  • J-Sports
  • Imagine
  • Nihon Telework
  • Telepack
  • Nourinhousou/Japan Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry Broadcasting Corporation
  • Slowhand

I've been lucky enough to work alongside people such as Nakadai Tatsuya, CW Nicol, Yamamura So, Yazawa Eikichi, Asano Yuko, Dan Fumi, Aramata Hiroshi, Ujiki Tsuyoshi, Inamori Izumi, Isshiki Sae, Matsutoya Yuumin, Ikue Sakakibara, Miyuki Imori, Takahiro Azuma etc.



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