Produced for Newcastle City Council a film about how the city is overcoming environmental mismanagement through various project that will enhance the landscape, provide heritage management and create a sustainable future. The film is produced as if it were an episode of BBC’s flagship sports programme Match of the Day and features impersonations by Jon Culshaw as a series of football pundits. Title: Newcastle City Council An image of a football transforms into that of planet Earth with the...

Produced for Newcastle City Council a film about how the city is overcoming environmental mismanagement through various project that will enhance the landscape, provide heritage management and create a sustainable future. The film is produced as if it were an episode of BBC’s flagship sports programme Match of the Day and features impersonations by Jon Culshaw as a series of football pundits. Title: Newcastle City Council An image of a football transforms into that of planet Earth with the sun shining behind it. The camera pushes in on the globe focusing on Newcastle upon Tyne and St James Park, the home of Newcastle United Football Club. Title: Nations in Bloom. Cup Final 2002 An animation of a graveyard and the Grim Reaper changes to a press conference being given by then Prime Minister Tony Blair. A montage follows featuring several environmental issues including fumes coming out of car exhausts, a whaling ship hunting a whale and industrial and chemical factories pumping out steam and smoke from their stacks. On the pitch at St James Park a young boy and girl kick around a football and do various tricks. As they do so various environmental slogans appearing, the focus of this production. At the training ground of Newcastle United Football Club manager Bobby Robson on the pitch watching the team play changes to a meeting taking place inside Newcastle Civic Centre launching the cities biodiversity action plan and greenspace strategy. As a group walk along a road a large tree growing on a grassy bank on the other side of the road. A montage of various communities ‘Greening Day’s events including a project to green the car park at Heaton Community Centre, visitors walking around the Exhibition Park Century Garden which was created with the help of blind and visually impaired people and the re-stocking of fish in the at Leazes Park pond. Queen Elizbeth II and Prince Philip arrive to open the Basil Hume Memorial Garden across the road from Newcastle Central Station on the corner of Neville and Bewick Street. The Queen pulls a cord revealing a statue to the Cardinal. A group of school children wonder around a park picking up litter changes to a press conference where a senior police officer launches the Byker Street Warden project. Operators take telephone calls at the cities ‘ENVIROcall’ call centre. A montage of street improvements begins with new street seating around the Grainger Town area as well a new public art space outside the Laing Art Gallery known as The Blue Carpet. A small crowd watches musician perform on a small stage outside the gallery. Delegates arrive at the Investing in Heritage conference taking place inside the Assembly Rooms on Fenkle Street. Inside quick clips of delegates listening to speakers talking regenerating Europe’s historic cities including Newcastle and the Grainger Town Initiative. Back at St James Park the boy and girl seen earlier continue to practice their footballing skills changing to shoppers on Grainger Street and then Bobby Robson continuing to watch over the training session. Title: Environmentally Sensitive Practices Inside Newcastle Civic Centre delegates listening to a speaker at a sustainable cities conference changing to a council workman at the Walbottle Community Orchard pruning a shrub as part of the cities commitment to offset its carbon footprint. Back at the Newcastle United training ground Bobby Robson removes his top followed by delegates from the sustainable cities conference coming down a set of stairs inside the Civic Centre and standing outside chatting under the River God sculpture. A web pages from the councils ‘Charter for the Environment’ and as well as other environmental services offered by the council. Title: Requiring our suppliers to adopt the charter principles Title: Reducing the energy the city uses Title: Environmentally sustainable and promoting lifestyles based on walking, cycling and the use of public transport At a council composting site, a wheel loader fills its bucket from a large steaming pile of compost. Title: Eco management and audit scheme A street of terraced housing and four young boys posing on the pavement changes to operators taking calls in the councils ‘ENVIROcall’ call centre. In a street a woman interacts with a street kiosk to report an environmental issue while at a local public meeting local councillors and residents sit listening to one another. In a local park three council workers go about litter picking filling a nearby bin lorry with rubbish and waste. Beside a pond in another park children collect insects using nets as part of an environmental class watched over by a teacher. Rides and attractions at the annual Hopping’s Fair taking place on the Town Moor changes to a parade through Newcastle city centre by 1500 school children as part of the World Cup Festival. Inside Exhibition Park children participating in a soccer coaching session. Runners during the Great North Run race across the Tyne Bridge into Gateshead, a woman in red mayoral robes waves from a platform as they pass her. Back at their training ground Newcastle United players including Alan Shearer continues to practice watched over by Bobby Robson. Both the Millennium and Tyne bridges lit up at night, on the Gateshead side of the river the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art also lit up. Inside Exhibition Park a man watches over a child as they climb a partly felled tree, nearby a performance artist on stilts and wearing a gasmask.A Newcastle City Council pulls up to an LPG pump, the tank is filled by the driver. A montage begins at night with pedestrians walking along the Quayside quickly changes to buses turning into Grainger Street retuning to the Quayside during the day and pedestrians crossing the Millennium Bridge. The film ends with the camera pulling back to an aerial of Tyneside and back further to the animation of the Earth with the sun setting behind it. Credit: Script Tony McKenna Impersonator Jon Culshaw Camera Operators Rich Smith, Dennis Maddison Sound Dubbing Jez Adamson Graphics Mere Mortals Title: Sponsors: Whale, The Travel Bureau, New Country Roads, Colas Title: Thanks to: Charlie Gorman, Jordon Thompson Title: Special thanks to Newcastle United Football Club Credit: Equipment Supplier TTV Facilities Ltd Post Production Imagine Editors Tim Goodill, Susan Cosgrove Director Richard Smith Logos for the four sponsors; Whale, The Travel Bureau, New Country Roads, Colas Title: Newcastle Gateshead Buzzin End title © TTV 2002 0191 214 2300