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Secrets of the Olympics coverage

Hannah Khalil

Digital Content Producer, About The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Blog

Most of us were really excited about The Olympics; and they lived up to expectations as a high-point of 2012 for the country as a whole. The Olympics were also a big moment for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and everyone here involved in covering this exciting event.

As we come to the end of the year, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Academy’s College of Production website has made a series of films which feature specially-filmed interviews looking behind the scenes of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Olympics coverage.

The films cover the full spectrum, from how Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ online and multiplatform brought us the Olympics in a number of new and innovative ways;Β  5 Live and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV presenters explain what it took to bring the games to the nation (in one case sacrificing a honeymoon); Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle reveals how he pulled off the awesome opening ceremony; there’s the inside track on how Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Comedy used Olympic inspiration to create Twenty Twelve (and executive producer Jon Plowman explains how Lord Coe reacted when he viewed the first episode); as well as how Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Drama weaved an Olympic story into EastEnders.

You can watch the films on the .Μύ