You don't need to be a brain surgeon to make TV, but sometimes it can be pretty complicated.

Rainy weather on the Australia's 'sunny' Gold Coast covers the camera lenses with raindrops forcing the chopper to land.

Take our shoot for the November show. We were on the "The Gold Coast" in Australia for one of the southern hemisphere's big film events, the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The Gold Coast is normally blessed by blue skies and bluer seas, but this time it was grey, wet and windy. To show off the classic "Gold Coast look," we had hired a helicopter with special "cineflex" cameras - that can shoot a stable image no matter how much turbulence the chopper encounters - to shoot the coastline from above.

The plan for the opening and closing sequences of the show was to fly the chopper in from the sea towards shore, running fast over the water Miami Vice-style, then pan up to reveal our presenter, Myleene Klass, perched on the deck of a boat saying "Welcome to the show."

Sounds simple, right? But each day we would prepare for this "money shot" and the weather would dash our hopes. No matter how much expensive technology you have, if the weather isn't with you then there's nothing you can do. The final day of the shoot dawned, we still hadn't got our shot, and Myleene, was due on a plane at 10am. Time was running out.

The boat's skipper relays instructions from the show producer in the chopper above the Myleene on the boat deck.

Logistical issues, like how to communicate, were also making things more complicated. The chopper is too noisy for a mobile phone so I had to cue Myleene to deliver her lines using a combination of hand signals and radioing between the chopper pilot and the skipper of the boat who would then instruct Myleene, inevitably causing a delay.

This meant the first attempt at the shot was a failure. Shortly after, it started raining again. The pilot's satellite indicated there would be rain for 10 minutes followed by a seven minute window of sunshine, followed by a long-lasting downpour. This shot had to work.

Success: both shots bagged just as the rain began to come down again.

We wiped the rainwater off the lenses and took off amid the gathering rain clouds. I timed my cues a bit later and we got the opening link and the closing link in the bag just as it started to rain once more.

Television: it's not brain surgery but sometimes it makes you feel like you're in need of some.

Watch the successful shots on this month's Screening Room which goes behind the scenes at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, shows footage of the CNN APSA Viewer Choice Award for the Best Asia-Pacific film of all time and features an in-depth interview with Oliver Stone.