Photo Every Day #78

Day two was a lot nicer weather wise! We also got to see more stunts which was great!

Carla, The Stunt Horse:


Racing:


Tech Hunters:

Photo Every Day #77

Today was the first day on set for Tech Hunt. It was so cold! We started off the day with a bit of snow but thankfully it perked up a bit once we started shooting. It was fantastic to see the stunt horses in action and it should make for an awesome sequence when all edited together. It was also interesting to see the fancy slo-mo camera. I'm not sure about make/model/technical details but I'm looking forward to seeing the shots they got with it! As always everyone on set was pleasant and it was nice to meet some new people.

Fancy Cameras:


Galloping Equines:


Stunt Cow:


Set Building:

Photo Every Day #76

Just a quick one as I have to get up at 4am for filming!

Surfin' The Web:


Song Of The Day: Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
Reason: Love this song, so easy to relate to!

Highlight Of The Day: A super early night.

Inspiration Of The Day: It's always useful to find tips on how to sleep better and how much sleep is good for you.

Photo Every Day #70

Just a quick one! A little sneak peek of my outfit for today. A black dress with some cute gold studs on it!

Hello, Stud:


Song Of The Day: Robbie Williams - Candy
Reason: Listened to it 21948745 times in a row at filming, but still like it!

Highlight Of The Day: Filming a promo for Twinkle in Stoke-On-Trent.

Inspiration Of The Day: Seeing the Twinkle girls perform. It's nice to see real talent without a sob story!

Photo Every Day #69

Today has been a fairly lazy day. We got to watch the end of Crufts 2013 but none of my favourites won sadly! I should be doing a spot of filming tomorrow so more of an update on my next post!

Mother's Day:


Song Of The Day: Rhianna - Stay
Reason: Stuck in my head! Really not a fan of her ballad style stuff as it just feels insincere, but I do like this song for a couple of it's lyrics.

Highlight Of The Day: Some me time.

Inspiration Of The Day: The Costumer's Guide - Unfortunate Events. I wish that Colleen Atwood could come and make all my clothes for me!

Photo Every Day #51

Today we took our third trip to the abandoned airfield to take some photos. I'll be editing and uploading them over the coming weeks. I also went for a meal with my Mum and Step Dad at the Choy Hing Chinese Restaurant which was lovely. Now I'm trying to have an early night ready for filming tomorrow!

Hidden Snails:


Song Of The Day: Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark
Reason: Really catchy with a creepy, quirky edge.

Highlight Of The Day: Going to the airfield!

Inspiration Of The Day: Taking my own urbex photos inspired by many, many other urbex photographers' work that I've seen over the years. Far too many to mention!

Photo Every Day #49

Today I went to work as usual. Had a nice catch up with my friends then came home. When I reached my car there was a rose underneath the windscreen wipers! I have no idea where it came from or who put it there! I haven't parked there for a while as I had a week off, so I just don't get it. It was a nice surprise though; it's not like that happens to me every day! I wonder if I'll get one again. In other news, I met with the producer from the film I'm working on this Thursday so I'm looking forward to getting stuck in!

Mystery Rose:


Song Of The Day: Debs Radio
Reason: Didn't think I'd say it, but I actually missed it whilst I was off!

Highlight Of The Day: Got to be finding a rose on my car!

Inspiration Of The Day: The random kind acts of others.

Photo Every Day #347

Today I found out the film shoot on Thursday has had to be rescheduled due to the weather. I'm gutted! But it will be shot in January instead so all is not lost. So tomorrow I intend on making a good start on packing up ready for the move! Only 8 days to go!

Fridge Raider:



Song Of The Day: Will.I.Am Featuring J.Lo and Mick Jagger - T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)
Reason: Such a good song! Came on in work today and had to stop myself from dancing.

Highlight Of The Day: Ordering our xmas cards!

Photo Every Day #346

Just a quick one as I want to try and sleep as much as possible for Thursday's shoot! I'll write about it afterwards so that I'll hopefully have some photos too! It's the staff night out at Venture this weekend, I want to wear a dress but so far my bruise is limiting my choice! I think I may go with my Vivienne Westwood dress as it seems like a good opportunity to wear it to something nice.

Still Bruised:


Song Of The Day: KMFDM - Megalomaniac
Reason: One of my favourite KMFDM songs and makes me want to dance the instant I hear it.

Highlight Of The Day: Getting 3 bookings at work.

Photo Every Day #345

I sometimes wonder whether I have 2 cats or 2 children. Draco's latest fascination is with Tom & Jerry cartoons on the tv! I'm a massive fan of 'proper' cartoons ie the ones that were hand drawn, so I've been recording a lot of old cartoons. Draco loves watching the characters run around on the screen. He reminds me of the scene in 101 Dalmations where the puppies are all watching tv.

Watching Cartoons:


Song Of The Day: Marina & The Diamonds - Bubblegum Bitch
Reason: Really love her, she's so different to the norm, really want to go and see her live!

Highlight Of The Day: Being offered a step up in roles on the film set I'll be working on on Thursday.

Photo Every Day #197

Today was the last day of the filming of Sophie's Fortune. I had a good time and the weather was lovely again. The children have been great all weekend and were a pleasure to be around. I'm not exhausted and back to work tomorrow sadly. It's definately inspired me to make sure I find motivated, hard working people to work with again in the future as it's amazing to be in a creative enviroment.

Party Enterance:

Photo Every Day #196

Just a quick one today as it's been a super long day and I need to get to sleep! I've been a runner again on the set of Sophie's Fortune. The weather held out all day which was a good start. They were filming a birthday party scene with around twenty five 6-9 year olds! I was supervising the snacks and drinks table, handing out whatever the kids wanted in rationed portions and filling them with sugar. They were surprisingly well behaved, especially after all the excitement and E numbers.
This is a sneek peak of some of the action on set.

Sophie's Fortune:


Song Of The Day: Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
Reason: Just loving Marina at the moment and am dying to sit and listen to her new album!

Highlight Of The Day: A rather nice ice cream!

Photo Every Day #181

Today I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms from being on the set of Boom In Shot. It has definately refined the fact that this is what I want to do forever. Fingers crossed there will be a sequel...

GRRR Your Face Off:


Song Of The Day: Will Smith - Men In Black
Reason: Classic 90s tune!

Highlight Of The Day: Naughty KFC for tea cos there's nothing in!

Photo Every Day #180

Today was the last day of filming for Boom In Shot. I'm really gutted that it's over as I didn't want it to finish. I've had such a nice time, everyone has been brilliant. I'd love to work with the crew again and hopefully I would be able to cast the actors in a future project. I'm just really excited to see the final film now, even though there's still the long editing process to go! This has by far been the best film job I've ever had. We also had a great time at the wrap party which was drinks in Odder bar, Manchester. We had many laughs and it rounded off a great few days shooting in the perfect way. Special thanks to everyone on the cast and crew, but in particular to Jez Blackmore (the director) for allowing me to become a part of this project!

Mugshot:

Photo Every Day #179

Another good day on set. I was worried that we wouldn't get all of the set ups done, but we even managed to get a handful shot that were scheduled for tomorrow! I'm starting to feel sad that we only have one day left. Sad face.

Shadow Man:

Photo Every Day #178

Today was the first day of filming for Boom In Shot. It was a really good day and we had a good few laughs. We were filming the first scene today which was all shot in the fake film set we dressed yesterday. It looked really good on camera so I was glad it was worth all the effort. It was great to see a Red camera too, the quality is just amazing! If I had ten of thousands of pounds lying around I'd be tempted to buy one! The actors all looked great in their costumes and played their roles well. I really think this will turn into a sucess if it's placed in the right film festivals.

Cast:

Photo Every Day #177

Today was the set up day for Boom In Shot. We went to Antwerp Mansion, which is our location, to set up the sets. We created the fake film set complete with sacrificial alter, melted candles and spray painted pentagram and it looks awesome! The mansion is a great location, it's full of junk too, so we managed to find some old books that dated back to as early as 1880! I'll take my Canon tomorrow and try to get some good shots. Can't wait for shooting to begin.

Set Design:


Pentagram:


Song Of The Day: KMFDM - Hau Ruck
Reason: Awesome song, they were amazing live and it was one of the best gigs I've been too. Better yet, we'd just found the tickets for it!

Highlight Of The Day: Getting aquainted with the mansion.

Photo Every Day #176

Today I was on the set of Sophie's Fortune. I'd been offered the role of runner by the producer who I'd met before on the set of Darktown Jubliee's Breakdown music video. I was really happy to be offered the role, especially as he contacted me as I was unaware that they were looking for runners! I will hopefully be taking up the runner role again next weekend for them. The film itself is about a group of dad's who go on a treasure hunt as part of a child's birthday party, but they get carried away and adopt 'hero' personas. It's a fantasy, action-adventure type film and even though I usually avoid action films, it really does look like it will be a great short. Most of my tasks included driving actors and crew to locations, carrying gear to the locations, speaking to members of the public who came across our production (most of them were excited to see men with guns running around!) and generally lending a hand where it was needed. Luckily for most of the day the weather was nice and the location was awesome! It really suited the story and the actors looked great in their costumes too. Everyone on set was really friendly and hardworking, so it was a nice atmosphere.

You can watch the teaser trailer here:

Photo Every Day #175

Just a quick post this evening as I have to get to sleep asap as I'm getting up at 5am to get ready for a full day of shooting for a film called 'Sophie's Fortune', very exciting! Today we had rehearsals for 'Boom In Shot' which gave me a chance to meet the cast. Everyone seemed really nice and the rehearsals went really well, so I'm really excited to get stuck in and help with the set building on Monday and get started shooting on Tuesday.

Script Read Through:


Song Of The Day: Ed Sheeran - Drunk
Reason: Was listening to the live performance from the Hackney Weekend in the car, he's perfect singing live and sounds exactly like on pre-recorded stuff.  Impressive

Highlight Of The Day: Great rehearsal session

Photo Every Day #174

Today was my last day in work for six days as I have exciting filming projects to be involved with!! More about those throughout the rest of the week. Today's PED is of the cookie monster cakes from the party yesterday!

Cookie Monster:


Song Of The Day: Swedish House Mafia - Antidote
Reason: Great song, really makes me want to dance!

Highlight Of The Day: My lovely Moschino bag that my Mum got me from Italy.