Monday 26th April
First day’s filming and the production office is a hive of activity! Last minute set dressing is transported to location where our talented Production Designer, Noel McAlley, has brought the script to life and created a fully dressed “home” for the Potts’ from an empty property kindly supplied by South Liverpool Housing. Popped out to take a peek at the finished, dressed house at Lunchtime (thought I‘d sample the delights of L & L Catering whilst there – yummy!!). Walking through the kids’ bedrooms was like walking through the pages of the script…fabulous… and a bit emotional too!!!
Thursday 29th April
First hiccup of the shoot as one of our leading actresses (the wonderful Kate Fitzgerald) missed her train from London to Liverpool! Kate is scheduled to appear in a scene on Friday morning so a quick re-write is necessary to sort the problem (easier than re-scheduling!) and Kate is cut from the scene.
Working hard to get the necessary documentation to set (tomorrow’s call sheets, risk assessments and insurance forms) in time to make the train to Manchester, got a meeting with Peter Carlton at Channel 4. Make the train by the skin of my teeth only to find that Peter Carlton has to dash back to London for a meeting. Will need to go to London to follow this up, but meanwhile its back to the production office to ensure everything is in place for Friday’s shoot.
Friday 30th April
Nicky in the office has been working hard to get an artist to airbrush the Potts’ wedding photo onto the side of a Volkswagen camper van, however the wedding scene we need the photo of is scheduled after the scene where we see image on the camper van!! Therefore we need to mock this photo and so before today’s shoot begins, we need to do a wedding photo shoot so we have a photo for our artist to use! (and no, we can’t do the wedding scene first if that’s what you are thinking!) We also need to take photos for essential set dressing and so this too is done after the wedding photoshoot. This photo needs to show Joe and Sally during happier times when Paul and Paula were babies, so we need to find twin babies ASAP! Nicky comes up trumps and Joanne Costello allows us to use her gorgeous twin sons (Harrison and Wade) for the shot. Fab Nicky from Interchill uses some clever photo shop technology and hey presto we have some superb photos!! Now onto the shoot…
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