And he varied his style according to his subject matter, from the found visual poetry of location pieces like "The Virginian" to the verismo of "Red Dust".
The Green Room will look at "the everyday lived experience of women and include short, shareable films and celebrity interviews" as well as "bespoke location pieces, for example on a BBC film set", plus "repackaged existing BBC content".
The concert will be broadcast during a three-hour special airing on Friday night across the network's cable channels, and will also include location pieces and town hall meetings.
Her later location pieces used her performers' reactions to the cities in which they were resident as source material for surreal, sometimes comic dances about local people and places.
But he said that when he began doing his location pieces for "The Daily Show," the ones that evolved into "The Colbert Report," he found great satisfaction in the craft of them.
Some of the work, to be sure, seems even more boring and obsessive-compulsive today than it did back then, notably the anti-object "Duration" and "Location" pieces of Douglas Huebler (1924-1997), in which actions or events were mapped out in terms of stated time frames.
Such ambushes might work in the audience elements of Top Gear (assuming the hanger sections are retained in the revamp), but writing to pictures and delivering location pieces to camera – particular accomplishments of Clarkson – will be an entirely new skill for Evans to learn.
Bee's show is, for the most part, a monologue before a live studio audience, played straight to the camera, with occasional cuts to filmed location pieces.
The concept behind having the episode based around an alien planet occurred to Moffat, Skinner, and producer Marcus Wilson when realising they had done big location pieces in the first half of the series with "A Town Called Mercy" and "The Angels Take Manhattan", but had none for the second half.
For anyone who missed it, here's Gabriel Tate's excellent on-location piece for this second season of the Returned.
