Le Barreau en Images

In 2005 I founded a new production company, International Broadcast Ventures, INBROV for short. The internet was only just learning how to deliver video. I saw a chance to do again what I know how to do, a news programme, for an audience that had never had one: an entire profession.

The President of the Paris Bar, Yves Repiquet, gave me a free hand. The first edition of "Le Barreau en Images" was announced in February 2006: the new President taking office, the start of term at the Bar's training school, the first sittings of the Bar Council. It was an online television news programme for the Paris Bar, monthly, six to ten minutes long, made up of short reports and aimed at the capital's twenty thousand lawyers.

The life of a profession

We filmed the official evening at the Palais de Justice, attended by Pierre Mazeaud, then President of the Constitutional Council, the auditorium of the Maison du Barreau, the training school, the "Solidarity Bus". On 1 April 2007 we even treated ourselves to a hoax about the colour of judges' robes. Le Figaro told the story in its pages.

By autumn 2007, twenty-two editions had gone online, on the Bar's website and then at a dedicated address. In April 2010 the magazine came back in a new format. Nearly forty years after my first steps in television, I was making a news programme again, from the running order to the opening titles.