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)

Totally Maisy- Day 1

We were all really excited to meet our cast and start filming today. We knew today and Saturday were to be our hardest but most exciting shoots as they were on location and with the most cast/crew and extras. Today's shoot was at the school so the crew arrived at half 7 to begin setting up and then the cast call time was 8. We had a late start as Maisy was stuck in the Dartford tunnel traffic, so we had to cut our whole script read through, down to just the first scene read through.

Our Director, Jordan then briefed the cast and crew and Hennie and I gave a brief health and safety talk so that the cast and crew knew what precautions to take. 

The cast all bonded together really quickly and really well which I was really pleased with as that was my main concern to begin with as they had never met each other before. By the end of the day it felt like everyone was old friend and we were all really excited for the next 3 days filming.

If I could have changed anything from the firsts day shoots, it would be that the extras were waiting around for quite some time at the beginning of the day so I should have made their call time later. They didn't seem to mind though and ate their way through the provided food!

We also had time to take our promotional image that we will be using for all our posters, dvd cases etc. I am really pleased with how this came out and think it really portrays the different characters and their friendship groups.