Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the french first lady, and Melinda Gates, Bill gates' wife visited l'Auberge de l'Amour Rédempteur in Dangbo, in the Ouémé Region, to see how The Global Fund's support was having an effect through local programmes, and to promote women's and children's health.
We were a two man team. James Thomas produced, whilst I filmed and edited. Our schedule was extremely tight, monday, tuesday filming B-Roll, then the actual visit on the wednesday, back to the hotel for 13:00hrs followed by an edit for a 18:30hrs uplink of the package. Then we had to jump on a plane to Geneva (going from 38 degrees to -2 and snow in one night), to deliver an extended VNR and b-roll package on thursday and a 6 minute film for the website on Friday. Whew.
It was a challenging trip, but we delivered, my only regret was that 3 days was far too short a time to spend in such a beautiful and fascinating place!
