My drone footage on BBC East Midlands news

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My drone footage made it onto BBC East Midlands today news yesterday, nicely credited too.
Ive had drone footage on BBC, ITV news and a channel 5 now, just need channel 4 next.

You need to make sure you have commercial insurance for the BBC to accept it, and have to send them your certification, licence and proof of insurance and how you want crediting. Channel 5 I had to sign paperwork. Warner Bros I had to digitally sign some paperwork.

With all of these companies Twitter (X) was how they initially made their contact with me. BBC East Midlands follow me on twitter so was able to use the direct messaging on that rather than tweeting.

Of course you need a way of getting your raw 4K footage to them, in the past I’ve used WeTransfer, Google drive and secure download server. WeTransfer is the simplest as you can send 3Gb of files for free.

Here is the section of news with my drone footage in it.

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Congratulations on achieving your first Celebrity Badge. :+1:

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Just out of interest, what was the process of you doing this? Did you simply film the theatre and contact them, or did they hire you for the job?

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Nice one.

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Their social media teams usually reach out after seeing stuff posted in local Facebook groups and Insta etc

They ask for use, you ask for money, they say no :wink:

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Thanks

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No I didn’t contact them, they contacted me about using it. I posted my video on Twitter (X) and BBC East Midlands follow me on so they saw my tweet.

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Yes it was Twitter where they saw my video as bbc follow me on there as I’ve supplied stuff before.

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I could have sent recent footage of a local heath fire to my local rag, but they want stuff for nothing, hence why I don’t bother. I mainly donate my footage to organisations who are registered charities for nowt.

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Exactly, I saw the clip on EM Today, they sent a camera person and reporter to site, I bet they got paid ;o)

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nopt get money for it as they have the budet roughty £100-£400 a video. a credit is nice but money is better

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yes of the TV companies Ive done stuff for only Channel 5 have paid money. but its not about the money for me.

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fair does, its nice to get some monetary from it as you go out n get the work while they sit around either pinching or just giving credit and i know somew people prefer the credit than money which is fine. i prefer to get that bag ahaha

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:index_pointing_up:

The credit doth not butter my parsnips, or put shoes on the kids feet

And as they say in Yorkshire

‘if tha does owt for nowt do it for tha sen’

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lol love the Joe Lycett reference

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I love the phrase, use it a lot :grinning_face:

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It’s a modern day classic phrase

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