Thats right, today we visited Dunbartons answer to Hollywood - The set of River City. It was a great experience for us to be able to visit a set, especially in action, of a BBC drama such as River City. Being one of the shows regulars now, I was especially surprised to see how small the sets were. (And some of the actors!!) The cameras really fooled me. I would never have guessed all the 'flats' were inside a huge warehouse, they look nice and real enough to live in!
Its crazy to think how much money and effort goes in to a TV show, I can only imagine what the MGM studios were like if they were almost the size of a small town! It still baffles me to think its like a whole imaginary world built for characters, along the same lines as The Truman Show, freaky! I also got to speak to a few of the cast that I know which was really nice, I felt quite priveledged to be there!
Again, 'Never work with animals or children...' was reinforced upon us today as we saw the character Ruth playing out a scene in which 'her baby' kept screaming and kicking, and then throwing toys around. What a pilavah! It must be really hard to work with kids in serious roles and I guess you got to hand it to the ones who really are fantastic little actors.
Another highlight of my trip was the fact I noticed a serioussss spoiler in the Tall Ship, I think alarm bells chimed a little when I noticed it out loud infront of Kim and the producer! Hehehe.... Don't worry, the only person thats remotely interested is my granny. She won't tell.
I'm sad to see that Kim is no longer teaching us, she was really fab and I thoroughly enjoyed her classes, they taught me a lot about what it means to storyline and script edit, everything about writing for TV in general. She introduced us to some important people and really took a keen interest in involving us within the industry. I really hope to see her back next year to give us some more pearls of wisdom!!
Its crazy to think how much money and effort goes in to a TV show, I can only imagine what the MGM studios were like if they were almost the size of a small town! It still baffles me to think its like a whole imaginary world built for characters, along the same lines as The Truman Show, freaky! I also got to speak to a few of the cast that I know which was really nice, I felt quite priveledged to be there!
Again, 'Never work with animals or children...' was reinforced upon us today as we saw the character Ruth playing out a scene in which 'her baby' kept screaming and kicking, and then throwing toys around. What a pilavah! It must be really hard to work with kids in serious roles and I guess you got to hand it to the ones who really are fantastic little actors.
Another highlight of my trip was the fact I noticed a serioussss spoiler in the Tall Ship, I think alarm bells chimed a little when I noticed it out loud infront of Kim and the producer! Hehehe.... Don't worry, the only person thats remotely interested is my granny. She won't tell.
I'm sad to see that Kim is no longer teaching us, she was really fab and I thoroughly enjoyed her classes, they taught me a lot about what it means to storyline and script edit, everything about writing for TV in general. She introduced us to some important people and really took a keen interest in involving us within the industry. I really hope to see her back next year to give us some more pearls of wisdom!!
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