22/07/2013 Newsnight Scotland

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Tonight on Newsnight Scotland - the birth of the royal baby has sent the

media into a frenzy. How will the new ear to the throne find his place

in a changing nation? Scotland has been asked banning

backdrop to films. Well a film studio and courage more films?

It is a boy, and a big boy at that. Our future king made the journalists

wait. His grandfather would be proud of that. There is flash photography

in this report. This is the story of what happens when the demands of the

modern digital media collide with tradition.

Not to mention some nifty royal footwork. This lot have been camped

out year for a week and still missed William and keep sneaking in at six

o'clock this morning. This is how long day of seeing not

very much began. We breaking news this morning. We are going straight

to St Mary's Hospital in London. Good morning. It is the breaking

news that we have been waiting days for... What can you do while waiting

for a future king to be born? Why not speak to a great British

eccentric? I am overwhelmed. This is for the baby. He thinks he will

appear in six hours time. By late afternoon it is all getting a bit

repetitive. Time for a gag. Still nothing has happened. Good morning,

America... Royal events would not be the same about finding out what the

foreigners of it. Just around dawn this morning the Duchess of

Cambridge... But then at ten past eight it's

finally arrived. The media was delivered of a story.

The Duchess of Cambridge has been delivered of a son. Happy and

Claudius and one day reign over us. -- happy and glorious.

If he is warm to reign over us perhaps he will have the best part

of a century to get to grips with the demands that such an age will

make on him. Good luck to him. I am joined by Roddy Martine who has

written on the Royals in Scotland and I Ken Lennox, Royal

photographer. Things so different now a days

compared to when you were standing outside that hospital for the worst

of Prince William. Even protocol has been changed. The diesel has been

replaced by the press release. has changed naturally. We did not

have rolling reports. You have to feel sorry for the journalist who

stood out there boiling while they had nothing to say. The

photographers stood there waiting to photograph nothing all day. It was a

tough day for them. The media has changed. In the daily Telegraph

today after William was born there were ten other stories on the front

page. We have now come into the age of celebrity. There is no bigger

celebrity than the British Royal Family worldwide. When you have

nothing to say and the camera is keep coming back it is a very

painful event as well as you no doubt saw. Roddy Martine, a big

event. Can you set this in historical context for us? We have

had a lot of criticism about the coverage, but how historical is this

event? It is a major part of British study. In the past you would have

had beacons on hills. We have got television now. We do not need that.

It is a very great thing to celebrate. It brings the nation

together in the sense of something good and something relating to the

view your and bringing continuity in a very and settled world. Looking to

the future and that continuity, there has been criticism of the

Royal Family. It will be a white male head of state for the next 100

years possibly. Is that too much continuity? I think it is terrific,

but I am sure there are people who will disagree with me. You know many

people in the Royal Family well. How well young people cope with this?

You still went those extra links to get those paparazzi shots. It was a

different time. There is a young prince who knows what happened to

his mother and is going to defend his wife against such behaviour. I

stepped out of line I going to an island and the photographing Diana

in a bikini. I was sent to the North Pole for four months as a result of

that. That use Diana no end. I swore I would never get involved in that

again because Diana was ten years you under when she had her first

child. Not like a much more mature and experienced Duchess of

Cambridge. Will he be protective of his family? What is his impression

of the media? Does he hates the media? I think you hold them in low

regard. He might be too strong. He is a polite young man. There are

some sections of it he knows will never ever give up on getting that

picture. That he is tough. The decision to release from Kensington

Palace was so that somebody would not steal the thunder. I think he

must have worried about that and decided he would control it, but she

does very well. An attacking mystic relationship, perhaps, with the

media. The people of Scotland are seeing this to a different prism.

How does the Royal Family stay connected to the people of Scotland?

It is a different kind of attitude. I have been in journalism for 40

years and I have seen how well and hope that lately have handled it in

that period. They have learned their lesson will stop in Scotland we are

not so obsessed with the media fanfare that is going on in England.

It is fascinating to see all these cameras and film teams from all over

the world. You are talking about a possible future head of state.

Whether that will pan out in the passage of time we do not know.

They're in mind that the monarchy is not just the British monarchy

looking after the UK. They have this dimensional across the world. My

Facebook page has been filled up with comments from friends of mine

in Australia and New Zealand raving about the situation. They are all

saying it is wonderful. You have mentioned the Commonwealth. They

have got an independence referendum next year. What could this royal

birth mean in the constitutional context right here in Scotland? This

baby's first birthday will be a couple of months before the

referendum. What might this be the mean constitutionally in Scotland?

Alex Salmond has been very canny in bringing in the monarchy as part of

the package. Which ever way the ball swings the Queen will remain head of

state in Scotland. You need to have a head of state, particularly one

that is above politics. The Queen has shown us all how to do it.

Whether this will survive her son and her grandson and a

great-grandson, who knows? The monarchy has survived so far. In the

context of other monarchies in Europe that is remarkable. In media

management terms, your colleagues will be delighted that the birth

came at 8:30pm, plenty of time to get the papers ready for tomorrow.

They will be hoping for the first baby picture tomorrow. You were

shooting away, waiting for the event. Once it is all over, they are

in the car, gone. If you hear someone shouting, I've got it, and

you have not, that is terrible. It is so important to newspapers. We

have had this wonderful continuity of the Queen since 1952. No one has

had something as good as that going for them as our country.

A week today we will be doing a special debate programme of the

place of the monarchy in Scotland. You can join Glen Campbell and a

panel of guests and a studio audience next Monday at 10:30pm.

Scottish audiences have no doubt been entertained to see zombies

running round Glasgow in the blockbuster World War Z. It has been

a popular location for many Hollywood films. Now in American

drama will be shot in Scotland. But there are no cause for a permanent

film studio for Scotland. -- Nall calls.

The decision to shoot World War Z in the centre of Scotland once again

ignited the debate over opening up Scottish film studio. Fast forward a

few years and you can see that the film sets are now long gone but the

appetite to market Glasgow was one of the UK 's most film friendly

cities has not diminished. Could Glasgow or any part of Scotland be

home to something like this? Pain which studios has in its time

produced many of the world 's biggest films. -- Pinewood Studios.

David Tennant has been in Stirlingshire filming for his new

production. A story of a Scot living in London who takes a trip north to

celebrate his father 's 75th birthday. The producer said that the

presence of a full skill studio in Scotland will be welcomed. we will

always look for a space to transform and create our own. There has not

been to date a big film studio up here. I think if you look at the

likes of the shows that have been appearing recent years, things such

as Braveheart, perhaps a bit longer ago, sky fall, Star Wars coming out.

On our skill of budget we have not had any studio set builds but some

of the bigger shows will have and I think they could only view that as

an absolute positives and a big tick in the box.

For the star of the production, coming home is always a bonus.

lovely, lovely to film in Scotland at all. Particularly nice to film in

Scotland when the weather is fine and we are in a beautiful location

like this, quite hard to beat. Glasgow is already home to its own

film production facility, Film City. But what about a full skill studio?

That debate has been going on for years and some say that the case for

it has not been made. Some people feel that a studio would magically

make it easier to make films. I think that that in general, those

people who have made films more frequently at a skill or more

convinced that are less convinced of that argument. I would be surprised

if experienced producers are all saying that they would find it

easier to get their next film financed because of a studio.

regardless, Scotland remains an important location for filming.

Damian Lewis has been filming scenes for his new drama on the Isle of

Mull. The film 's first-time director says it has given her the

ideal setting. the landscape, the drama, the epic quality, the colour,

the air, the sea, absolutely. And the people. The crew, that is it as

well. Having the opportunity to be hearing, no, -- to be here, now.

That is immense. And put making TV shows also bring success? The US

cable network Stars is coming to Scotland to film. To film the Bic in

its own setting is a fantastic endorsement for Scotland. It is an

endorsement of the cruise and quality here. It put Scotland on the

international TV drama map. What certainly seems like -- it

certainly seems that Scotland has a major role to play in TV and film,

but will it ever have its own studio? Better still to be decided.

I'm joined by Tiernan Kelly, who is putting together a proposal for a

studio here. How close are we to getting a film studio We are very

close. Film City cars or his -- Film City Glasgow has been working

towards this. We are currently drawing up a business plan which

will give us up to 50,000 square feet of studio space. Wardrobe,

workshop, make-up facilities. And also a facilities village. This is

really where we differ from previous studio projects. In recent memory,

Scotland 's attempt at putting a studio together have been pretty

laughable. Most famously was a Braveheart theme park. Pie in the

sky stuff. The villages quarter hour proposal. We want all of the

production and facilities companies on one site.

Is this creation of a hub key to the proposal? We have heard some say

that whilst experienced producers will say that a film studio is not

feasible in Scotland? we have a key tenant base and facilities are used

by them. But big companies can come through and use those facilities.

But it does not matter if that happens. Our central business plan

will sustain it. We have the backing of Ian Smith, Scotland 's most

famous Hollywood producer. You are confident that Scotland can sustain

this? This is imperilled call analysis of 2011 film-making in

Scotland. Doubling of our capacity would have enjoyed occupation levels

of around 7%. With introduction of the new high-end TV tax incentive,

we would have another �315 million worth of film production coming to

the UK. we would have a pretty decent crew based here, professional

production crew? That is intrinsic to our proposal. The skills element

of it. We visited Northern Ireland and heard anecdotes about graduates

from art school working on Game of Thrones storyboards. Those

opportunities we are in Scotland. A big production such as Game of

Thrones would give us training opportunities as a result of that.

Thank you very much for coming in. Let us take a quick look at tomorrow

's newspapers now. We cannot not start with the sun. The thinnest

easel and the announcement of the birth of the new Prince, the baby

boy. -- CMIS easel. That is all from us tonight. From

all of us on the programme, thank you for watching, do have a very

across the course of Tuesday. A number of us will get the downpours.

Some of us will miss them. This is the same in Northern Ireland.

Temperatures are little bit on the fresh side. At this stage across

eastern and southeastern Scotland it is not too bad. Later in the day

that is when it could get bad. There could be showers almost anywhere

across England. The whole atmosphere across the UK is waiting to erupt,

to create those big thunder and downpours. Also heal stones and some

big gusts of wind. There will not be too much rainfall. Let us have a

look at the outlook as we head towards Tuesday and wait and see.

Potential for still exists. -- for storm is still exists. Potential