Camilla, lights, action! Queen celebrates 70 years of ITV

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To celebrate 70 years since the first broadcast on ITV, The Queen visits the set of ITV drama Trigger Point, before attending a reception to mark the occasion and showcase talent across the ITV network. Camilla tried her hand at camera-work and using a clapperboard. . Camilla was welcomed to the set of Trigger Point, which was being filmed on location at Brent Cross Civic Centre in north-west London, where she met actress Vicky McClure, Mary Nightingale, Dermot O'Leary, Dame Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of ITV, as well as various famous actors and presenters. Report by Faragt. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm Chris Brandon, he's the writer Hello Chris, so you've written part of this?

00:18I've written part of it, yes You're nice and warm in your explosive officer's

00:24kit Very safe and warm

00:27So have you enjoyed doing this? I love it, it's crew and it's explosive

00:32This is the second series? This is the third

00:35Third? This is the third, yes, so it's going well

00:38Very popular I'm glad, do you like it?

00:40I was skipping through the first, I've got a bit high, but no, I think it's really good

00:45Brilliant, great, I hope you've had a good time

00:48Paul, Paul's the beauty Hello Paul, how are you?

00:51How are you doing? Very nice

00:53This is the lighter version This is like £30, so the whole lot together

01:00will be about £30 And this is...

01:03Oh, there you go They are incredible

01:10And you'd never know The trick is the trick

01:14I think what we try and do with Trigger Point, as much as we have artistic licence, is you

01:20want to try and honour the people that actually do it

01:22Is that what these real heroes do? I know they are

01:26Because they are heroes Oh, completely, definitely they are

01:30They're the incredible force

01:32You'll be able to hear Excellent, so you'll be hearing all the

01:40chatter, and then when they're ready, that will be it

01:47You'll have to use a lot of your imagination, ma'am

01:50Because this is quite a significant visual effect shot

01:53So we're not going to have the actual explosion?

01:56You're not, you don't need to worry about that

01:59If there is an explosion, ma'am, it's nothing to do with us

02:02And the signage for the building that we haven't been able to add are the aftermath of the bomb

02:08So after we've shot this part, we then go in and set here, where Vicky will be running

02:12Oh, right

02:15Oh, I see

02:17Oh, I see

02:20Yeah

02:27So

02:42Trigger point, take one

02:51Fabulous

02:53That's it, that's all there is to it

02:55Brilliant

02:56And then that's the hardest part of making television

02:59Well done

03:00Well done

03:01It's doing that

03:12Pull it closer

03:14Good, good

03:36Mark it

03:42Mark it

03:56Yeah

03:58Yeah, I got it

04:12More IT and tech

04:13Hello

04:14A key man

04:15A very key man

04:16One more

04:17One, two, three

04:35Hello

04:36Very nice to see you

04:38So what do you want?

04:39Oh, OK

04:58Vicky

05:09Three, four

05:12In numbers

05:16Well, it seems for you

05:18So I'm off

05:19Gosh, we've been at ICV News now for 18 years

05:23Yeah, and I'm just also devious to admit that we've been doing our domestic news campaign

05:27And all the campaigners that we've been talking to have said they appreciate that

05:30Paul Bryant of our UK editor, presenter of the Tonight programme

05:34Just won Specialist Journalist of the Year in Political Journalism

05:37It's a very decorated

05:38You get a trophy, yeah, so you get to take that home, do you watch television, do you

05:50use yourself?

05:51We like to think that we try to maintain those standards.

06:32I'd like to say a very, very happy 70th birthday to all of you.

06:51I'm a bit older than you, and I do remember ITV starting on, you know, those very old

07:01televisions in those days with things that went round looking like lemons, but I do remember

07:07the excitement of suddenly having another channel, you know, to watch how you've gone

07:13on from there, you know, how much you've appealed to the nation.

07:16I hope for the next 70 years you'll go on getting bigger and better, so thank you.

07:26And Trigger Porn, we have a little gift for you to enjoy, and putting pride of place somewhere.

07:31Thank you so much.

07:32Now you know how to work it without jamming your fingers.

07:33And now...

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