CCTV: Caught on Camera

Channel 4, 2014

Three standalone films, each looking at different kinds of CCTV in the UK today. The episode I shot and directed followed the CCTV operators and housing officers of Southampton City Council who use CCTV to monitor residents in 19 city tower blocks.

CCTV is a revealing look at day-to-day life in a high rise, where privacy has been sacrificed in return for the promise of increased security. How do the people being watched feel about this round-the-clock monitoring, who are the people who are watching them and are the cameras actually making them any safer?

‘Prepare to look on in horror… completely fascinating.’

Radio Times 

‘Properly eye-opening documentary.’

The Times

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Credits

C4 Commissioning Editor: Amy Flanagan 

Production Company: Blast! Films

Executive Producers: Ed Coulthard & David Hodgkinson 

Series Producer: Sophie Leonard  

Film editor: Simon McMahon

Senior Director: Nick Leader