Our first and only problem

Day 4, our final day gave us our first and only problem that we had whilst filming Totally Maisy. The call time for most of the cast was 6pm, including Katie (Maisy's enemy and school hottie.) It got to about 4pm and neither me or Hennie had heard from Katie all day after numerous phone calls, texts and emails. She had been at the first day of filming and seemed happy and excited to continue so we thought this to be odd. By the time it got to 5pm we decided that we could not wait any longer for her to contact us so must start on an contingency plan. Katie is a vital character to show that Jack is not interested in Maisy but is going out with Katie. Katie's purpose is to be horrible to Maisy and the girls and be Jack's girfriend. So we decided to write myself a part in as Katie's big sister, who all the girls to be older and scarier than Katie, a mega bitch if you like. This would work so that when Maisy looked in the binoculars she would see that Katie wasn't there and get excited only to be confronted with her big sister when they got inside. To us this was the only thing we could do with such short amount of time and stand ins. 

Luckily at 6pm Hennie received a text saying that Katie would be late and her phone had died. So luckily for us Katie turned up and we were able to continue filming as normal!

This really taught me the importance of contingency plans and how important it is to have them just in case.

Jack Baugh (Jack) and Mel Sanger (Katie)