Watch the rest of Ernie’s Pitstop over at www.channel7tv.co.uk !

These programmes are also available on a DVD, for your free copy contact Specialist Health Promotion Service on 01472 629 200 or visit www.nelhealthimprovement.co.uk

You can view the full programme www.channel7tv.co.uk

The studios have been commissioned by Public Health to produce a Men’s Health DVD for the men folk of North East Lincolnshire in which Ernie is to star as the presenter. Ernie was so excited by his day in the studios we even made it into his Grimsby in Bloom Blog! Here’s what Ernie had to say:

Bloom Blog

I spent an interesting afternoon at Immage studios on Margaret St in Immingham last week. I was there to film the opening and closing sequences to a programme that they’re developing to promote men’s health. It’s a very worthwhile project and I’d been looking forward to taking part since I was first asked just before Christmas, last year.

“Yeah, no problem, I can do that!” I exclaimed, excited at the prospect of performing in front of the cameras once again, little knowing exactly what it was that I was being asked to do.

I’ve done quite a lot of filming for local, regional and national telly over the last few years, but last week was the first time that I’d had to perform in front of a blue screen.

“Make sure that you don’t wear a blue or purple shirt on the day” said Kimberley at Immage Studios. “It’ll make your body disappear and make it look as though your head is floating in mid air”.

The programme, as I said, is about Men’s Health and its being approached through the medium of motor mechanics. So, last week, there I was, underneath the hot studio lights in a pair of grubby black overalls performing to camera. “Ernie, would you mind rolling that old car tyre across the floor a few times please?” “Ernie, would you pick up that large wrench and pretend to be tinkering about underneath a car bonnet?” “Don’t worry, it won’t look daft, we’ll just add the car later on when you’ve gone, that’s why we’ve got the blue screen. We can just cut out your moving image and put whatever we want behind you. That’s right, just pick up those spark plugs and imagine that you’re connecting them to the battery, that’s great!”

It was indeed a very strange afternoon, where all of the showing off was visible but all of the hard work was really going on behind the scenes where it couldn’t be seen.

It was a great afternoon and thanks to Ernie for all his hard work the graphics are looking great! Keep your eyes peeled for the new DVD due out before Christmas, just in time to fight the festive bulge!

‘Get Online Week’ will see over 3,000 events taking place around the country which will be encouraging and supporting people to get online.

The BBC are looking for individuals who are about to embark on their digital journey and use the internet for the first time.

They’re looking for people for whom using the internet is a huge challenge but who have decided to give it a go. They’re keen to understand what their barriers have been up until now and what their motivation is to give it a go in August/September 2010.

They’re looking for people from all walks of life, from all around the country and from all age-groups.

They’re looking for likeable, chatty individuals who can express what their anxieties or concerns are and why it’s important to them to have a go now.

They’re operating to a tight deadline, so are keen to speak to people ASAP and start filming anytime from now until the end of September.

Please call them on 0208 008 1105 or you can ask someone to contact them on your behalf on rakhee.hindocha@bbc.co.uk or claire.dunn1@bbc.co.uk or call them on if you can put forward any potential first-time users.

Over the course of 10 weeks Seven and the Immage Studios team filmed and tracked their progress as they took on the challenge of planning, scripting, filming and producing their own programme.

The result is a warm and witty production through the eyes of 10 talented and trained junior media professionals with a supporting documentary showing the students growth in confidence, skills and personality. To see the programme in full go to our Seven website www.channel7tv.co.uk or watch it on Virgin Media 879.

A local family in the form of The Codd’s, show you how the Change 4 Life scheme can be incorporated into your daily routine in 8 easy tips, to suit any family of any size.

The result is a warm, friendly, funny and informative DVD that is now being distributed to homes in North East Lincolnshire and is broadcast on Seven, Virgin Media 879!

Seven launched in January 1998 and broadcasts from Immage Studios in Immingham on to the Virgin cable network, channel 879, and reaches 140,000 people across North and North East Lincolnshire. Immage Studios works hard with the Seven team who have developed links with public and private sector companies and work closely with the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education to provide broadcast media work placements and training opportunities for students and local people.

After 10 years of successful broadcasting, the channel continues to produce and schedule programmes that directly or indirectly support, enhance, promote or deliver local concerns & initiatives. With 7 hours of content broadcast per day there’s plenty for you to watch! You can also watch it again online at www.channel7tv.co.uk!

Lincolnshire Living is the flagship magazine programme of Seven and is researched, filmed and edited by a production team of volunteers supported by the team here at Immage and presented by a local student, Lori Trigg with guest presenters who help Lori report on key events.

IBC is at the cutting-edge of new technology in the rapidly evolving electronic media industry. It couples a comprehensive exhibition covering all facets of today’s industry with a highly respected peer-reviewed conference that helps shape the way the industry will develop in the future.

Immage Studios have been invited to produce a series of short films for Award Nominees at the IBC event this September by client IABM who hold awards at the event for leading industry experts. IABM are the authoritative voice of the broadcast and media technology supply industry worldwide. They seek to further the interests of members through partnership and representation on a range of issues.

This the second year running Immage Studios have been asked to cover the event! An action packed schedule awaits the team as they work around the clock to research, film, interview and edit the films ready for the awards night!