Not many people can claim that the President of the United States may have their lives saved, but for Arun Chaudhary, it one of the many stories that he tells about the work in close proximity to the Barack Obama.
Mr Chaudhary routes the President on a daily basis, and it was that he had his close to miss on a trip to China.
"I was filming the President, and suddenly he started, locate concerned."
"I thought, ' I was shooting the wrong thing, how may be I, there are one million cameras right now?', but I was actually about to go off a small cliff, which fortunately he me by doing stopped," he says without a hint of drama.
Shadow, described as Barack Obama Mr Chaudhary is often seen to capture every move in the background with a camera.
In addition, Vaidyanathan takes a look at the White House press briefing room"President asked me recently, when I go, wear this toy to stop", Mr Chaudhary jokes on his small video camera.
For decades, Presidents have stills had photographers key events, capture, while military video Graphers set piece moments also have filmed. But Mr Chaudhary is the first official White House videographer.
He goes on about two-thirds of presidential trips, sharing a similar level of access as Pete Souza, official White House photographer.
This means travel in the presidential motorcade on the helicopter and shooting in the Oval Office. But, while Pete Souza may cover 99% of what the President be, says Mr Chaudhary, he party at 75%.
"People are always me questions if I from the room the signals get kicked what are?" This does not happen because I'm self kontrollierenden, and I think that the people in the room immediately think about me there to be... I like to gone the second, "he says."
Weekly videocastMr Chaudhary worked material week publishes a weekly video webcast as the West Wing. All what he posts through the White House Press Office has been accepted, a filter makes critics argue the video no more than press releases.
The West Wing week, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is posted on YouTube and the White House website. YouTube is only average in the thousands, but many people see the videos at the official website, says Mr Chaudhary.
"" "My's favorite movie" leader moments difficult world ", I call that basically world leaders with chit-chat as you are and I would," says Mr Chaudhary.
"Most people think not, 'what actually I would have to speak when the Prime Minister of the Netherlands next to me, down clapped', but if you are the President, which is what you think about all the time." "I love capturing those moments easy."
Read the main story of Arun Chaudhary35 years OldWorked with Obama during the election 2008 CampaignStudied film on NYUMade fiction films before entering PoliticsJoined of the campaign after a friend, Kate Albright-Hanna, who had left CNN for the campaign, recommended he JoinWas one of six video journalists on the Obama CampaignGathering this type of footage requires a level of trust, which he says was built, since he started shooting Barack Obama during his presidential campaign."" "I'm a funny guy, which is why he thinks he keeps me - on the campaign, he called me"funny man"," he says.
David Almacy, who was the White House Internet Director under President George W Bush, argued that although the West Wing week "interesting", a the idea of unnecessary costs.
He says "it is taxpayer funded and the videographer has the ability to take scenes and edit them the way, as you want, and if you have one is the one hundred metres away from the Oval Office, White House of press corps".
"A federal employee is the videographer, the processing power can cause that some concerns about the perceived propaganda."
"With average views between 5,000 and 10,000 for most West Wing weeks (with a few exceptions), you could argue that the costs relating to the production of the weekly rates, much value for the citizens especially in tough economic times as Congress and the White House for ways find are", the budget are shortened by copyright "Mr Almacy adds."
Barack Obama enables the tables Arun ChaudharyThis is a feeling, felt by some White House correspondents, who believe that Mr Chaudhary receives access and notification of some events, where they are not invited.
A journalist, the question not be named, said some members of the press corps fret "access of" receives Mr Chaudhary added that sometimes events are on West Wing week, which were closed to the press.
"What the journalists at the White House here and what I do, very different tasks," says Mr Chaudhary.
"they are here, drive up to the American people about the daily and to inform the management positions." "I'm free to a long run of things, and so I often think we are but different things in the same room."
Interior viewThe role of the world's customized video provider reflect a leader is not clearly in the United States. Others including the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Canada Stephen Harper have their own camera crews document their activities.
Britain's David Cameron has his own West Wing week-style video blog - Webcameron - although his personal videographer Nicky Woodhouse was used after much criticism from the public payroll.
Mr Chaudhary has compiled some West Wing week "Despatches" recently, which took him to Sudan and in the Iraq to the management point policy in action. He hopes, expand to show it what is happening in the White House of President only activities.
But those who want to see you shoot tyres on the basketball court by the more behind the scenes style shots of Barack Obama, or hanging out disappointed with his family.
Mr Chaudhary says he has shot some of this, but it was not released, and will instead go as anything he draws the presidential archive as required by law.
Critics say that in itself is a form of censorship, and claim that the West Wing should go week show a different page of the President.
But for Mr Chaudhary, West Wing week is an important step towards the opening to see how of the Government for all.
"I think to see people enjoy how its institutions work from the inside, and they go to more demand," he says.
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