KEITH JACOBSEN TELEVISION LIGHTING CAMERAMAN Represented by Suz Cruz North

Award winning lighting cameraman with 30 years of experience in the broadcast industry for some of the worlds biggest broadcasters. From studios to outside broadcasts to single camera work using a variety of grips from Steadicam to jibs. Daring to be different.

KEY SKILLS

• Studio/OB/ENG operation • Location Lighting • Pedestals/Steadicam/Jimmy Jib • Problem Solving

RECENT CREDITS

Light Entertainment / Music Game Show Mrs Browns Boys (BBC Scotland) Eggheads (12 Yard/BBC) Red Dwarf (BBC North West) Fifteen To One (Channel 4) This Is Your Life (Thames Television) Len Goodman’s Partners In Rhyme (BBC) BBC Introducing… (BBC North) The Time It Takes (BBC/Hat Trick) Children In Need (BBC North) The Link (BBC) Great Britons (BBC) Britain’s Worst Cooks (Carlton) Children's Creamfields 2018 (Nomobo/Acrobat TV) The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC) The 8.15 From Manchester (BBC North) Drama The Satellite Show (CBBC) Emmerdale (ITV Studios) Chucklevision (CBBC) Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC) My Story (CBeebies) Coronation Street (ITV Studios) Match of the Day Kickabout (CBBC) Za’atari – Newsround Special (CBBC) News & Current Affairs Newsround (CBBC) BBC Breakfast (BBC News) Sunday Politics (BBC North) Sport World In Action (Granada) Late Kick Off (BBCYorkshire) Channel 4 News (ITN) Hockey Night In Manchester (EIHL) Inside Iraq (Al Jazeera) BTCC Super Touring Cars (BBC Sport) Empire (Al Jazeera) LMP3 Championship (Race TV) Squawk Box (NBC) The Emir Cup (Al Jazeera Sports) US ’08 The Nation Decides (Al Jazeera) FIA British Grand Prix (Silverstone TV) Lebanon – Audacity of Hope (Al Jazeera) Winter Olympics (NBC) Eclipse Live (ITN/Channel 5) NASCAR Whelan Series (NASCAR) NHL on NBC (NBC Sports) Film Wimbledon (BBC Sport) Symphony For Yorkshire (BBC North) Camanachd Cup (BBC Sport/BBC Alba) Songs From Hattersley (BBC North) A Day Out (Little Dragon Films) Em (Ben Till Productions) Brass – Billy Whistle (NYMT/Ben Till Productions) 100 Faces (Ben Till Productions/Jewish Film Foundation)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LIGHTING CAMERAMAN, FREELANCE - 3/2018 - DATE I provide lighting camera operation on a wide variety of television programmes including “Emmerdale”,“BBC Breakfast”,“Coronation Street”,“Creamfields” and the film “100 Faces”.

SENIOR OPERATOR, BBC - 1/2010 - 3/2018 I operated HD and 4K cameras on programmes as diverse as “BBC Breakfast”, “Newsround”, “Mrs Browns Boys” and “Eggheads” and often travelled the world as a single camera unit for documentary, news and current affairs programming.

HEAD OF CAMERAS & LIGHTING,AL JAZEERA; DOHA, QATAR - 10/2007-10/2009 Responsible for camera crew, lighting design and scheduling. In addition to studio work I travelled on outside broadcasts for Al Jazeera across the world as senior lighting cameraman, often to hostile environments.

SENIOR TECHNICAL OPERATOR, BBC RESOURCES; LEEDS, UK - 2001-2007 Craft cameraman for national news and documentary programmes, outside broadcasts and studio productions. I also operated SNG/Microwave trucks and edited items using FCP,Avid and Quantel QEdit.

CAMERAMAN/EDITOR, ITN; LONDON, UK - 1997-2001 Operated ENG cameras and field edited for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 News. I also became Duty Facilities Supervisor for the ITN News Channel based in London.

CAMERAMAN, FREELANCE - 1992-1997 Shooting on film, Betacam SP and Digital Betacam for a variety of broadcast and corporate clients across the world. Programmes included “Casualty’,“Dalziel & Pascoe”,“Winter Olympics”.

TRAINEE OPERATOR (CAMERAS), BBC TELEVISION; MANCHESTER, UK - 1988-1990 My formal training specialised in studio and outside broadcast camera operation for BBC Television where I had the opportunity to work on many live and recorded shows across numerous programmes genres.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, MEMBERSHIPS & AWARDS

Studio Lighting Advanced Location Lighting Mental Health First Aid certification Hostile Environment & First Aid Training Satellites In Broadcasting - uplink operation and theory VSAT Operation & Engineering

Guild of Television Camera Professionals (GTC) National Press Photographers Association Broadcast,Entertainment,Cinematograph &Theatre Union (BECTU)

Prix de Circom International Award - for “Symphony For Yorkshire” (BBC) RTS Award - for “Symphony For Yorkshire” (BBC)

REFERENCES

Kenneth Newlands Tim Rhodes BBC Scotland BBC Television Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1DA Broadcast Centre, Leeds LS9 8AH ken.newlands@bbc.co.uk [email protected]

Jay Robey Benjamin Till BBC Television Film Director MediaCityUK, Salford M50 2BH London [email protected] [email protected]