On the set

It's been fun being on and around a movie studio! Daily experiences include having to show my pass to security every morning, overhearing meetings about TV shows in the cafe, seeing cars with tinted windows go by, most likely containing some mildly famous person or other, and hearing snippets of rehearsals for West End shows from open windows (both Carmen and Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical are rehearsing at 3 Mills right now, and no I'm not kidding about the second one).

And then today I got to walk right through the middle of some actual shooting! When I got to school at 8:30 there were a bunch of people on the path that I walk on to get to 3 Mills: they were changing the banner on a vendor's cart so it read "Dino's Burgers", setting up lighting and sound equipment, and just milling around, and there were a couple of dummies lying on the ground dressed in various outfits for who knows what purpose: calibrating the lights or something, I suppose, though my first thought was that it was a shoot em' up type film and they'd be the victims (hee hee). By the time class ended and I went back in that direction at about 2:45, they were shooting, and I actually had to wait to walk through while they did a take! The scene they were shooting involved a guy in a cop uniform walking toward the camera and saying "Oi! You let go of my mate! Don't mess with me, ya know I'm a suicidal type bugger and you don't know what I'll do" or something of that nature. I kind of want to find out what this show is, sounds pretty amazing.

And in other news, check out what's happened to my jazz shoes after three months of constant use! They were worn out to start with, but those are holes clear through the toes! Time for a new pair...