Phew!
Well, We survived. Today was the shoot day for “Hey You There” and lemme tell you – It was intense. The day was supposed to start at 9am which got moved to 12 because of the gloomy looking weather. We even considered cancelling the shoot and doing it tomorrow, but in the end we realised the weather would get better. Deciding to be there at 12 meant that in reality we all arrived by 1pm (nobody can find parking in the CBD during the Australian open) in a frenzy to start shooting. Once we had all arrived and met each other for the first time the shoot began – there was very little time to consider costume and makeup and we basically went with whatever people were wearing.

Now – if i could have just a quick second to complain here. I needed to pee. All Day! Arrived at the shoot – needed to pee. BUT I DIDNT GET TO PEE UNTIL 7PM. That. Is. How. Intense. It. Was.

The way the day ran was that we had the shotlist printed out and divided all the shots into location 1 and 2 as the shots were scattered across two distinct sides of the Botanic Gardens. First we did all the shots at location two which required all the extras to be present, then we moved base to location one and stayed there for the rest of the day. We shot in order of most people required to least, that way we were able to release the extras as soon as possible, until by the end of the day we were left only with our two leads.

Considering the pace of the day, we didn’t even have time to eat, but luckily had somebody on set to grab us some coffee (WHICH DID NOT HELP MY PEE SITUATION). However, by some miracle everybody was kept in a good mood in high spirits and we were able to complete the shoot! Here are a few photos from the day: