A quick brief of OBS

Olympic Broadcasting Services – OBS

Two weeks during the Olympics

The Olympic Broadcasting services is a very big company which does take a very long time to gather new crew members from all over the world.

I had a BTP – broadcast training programme during September 2011. There I learnt the ways of broadcasting sports. They gave us a few books containing all the information about the Olympics in  London and also how to broadcast sport.

There was a long waiting period to find out whether I was accepted as a support services assistant.

I got the email and was thrilled but had so much to do in order to become a support services assistant a.k.a runner.

I had to fill out a form with all my details in it so they could get the correct uniform size for me and to add on my accreditation. (Look at an older post on my blog about the accreditation). It was very exciting as this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

I was a runner in the Excel centre and I had to do many jobs in supporting the rest of the crew. When we had some spare time we were allowed to go and see some games in the Excel.

Whilst working at the Olympics I kept thinking to myself that I was so lucky to be apart of the games. It will stay with me for the rest of my life.

I have learnt so much in sports broadcasting and it was a different thing for me to be apart of. Since I knew a lot in commercials, TV, Film I thought it was really good I could broaden my knowledge even more by being part of the biggest sport event in history and see how the OBS crew film the Olympics.