Being Victor

At the start of the holidays, pre-volcano, Murray and I started working on a new online-based TV show called Being Victor. Being Victor is a cross between the concept of Gossip Girl (an online unknown blogger posting gossip about fellow students, much to my delight!) and explicit teen drama such as Skins. Its super exciting and we were really chuffed to have an inside scoop on what was going on, being involved in a 'Making Of' documentary. Unfortunately, I missed a lot of what we planned to do due to being stuck in America, not as amazing as it sounds. But even in the few days I did make it, a lot was to be learned!

• First of all, not all producers are scary. Kat was absolutely lovely and really cool! She was really up for all of our suggestions and helped to make them even better. She was easy and comfortable to be around whilst maintaining a 'don't mess' attitude, amazing. I salute you, Kat!
• The costs you don't consider on a production is crazy. We had an hour or two to kill and offered our runner services and were asked to go and print off some scripts. Who would have thought it'd be 165 quid just to photocopy paper?! So Murray used his resourceful skills and we headed round to his mums work to begin the printing, for £100. Little did we know we would still be there sorting and stapling 4 hours later! You can really see how the costs mount up, its really outstanding how much things such as printing and printer ink can add up over the course of a production.
• The cast were all really great and it was exciting to see what a real life behind the scenes is like. It wasn't all perfect and there were the normal hiccups you would expect but it was real and I learned a lot just by being there in the midst of all the chaos!

In general, I learned a lot from this fantastic experience and opportunity, hopefully I will still help out in editing and can't wait to see how the final show will look! xoxo