Now That’s Productivity!

Like building a new building… without the building…

We’re here wrapping up a week of intensive training at The BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol.

Everyone is in the big conference room, beavering away on their final projects.

In a few hours we are going to screen 42 stories.

42 stories shot, written, produced and edited by 42 separate people.

For the past week, we have been putting 42 cameras on the streets of Bristol. The equivalent of sending out 42 camera crews.

One can only imagine the scheduling nightmare of The BBC trying to schedule 42 camera crews to shoot in Bristol for four days.

Yet here, all we had to do was open the doors.

Now, as we walk around the big conference room on the second floor, we are looking at 42 edit suites in play.

42 editors cutting 42 separate films for The BBC.

Again, one can only imagine if we had proposed building 42 edit suites in BBC Bristol.

Today, as everyone cuts, I would imagine that this one room is the largest video production facility in the UK, if not in the world.

Where else are there 42 video editing suits running full bore, side by side.

Yet we were able to do it all in one room.

And for almost no cost.

If it wishes to expand its reach, The BBC does not need more buildings.

Nor does it need more staff.

It has everything it needs right here to quintuple (if not more) its output every day.

All they have to do is put it in play.