Lime Pictures Diary - Day 3, 4 & 5
So as you saw at the end of Day 1's post, Day 2 was spent in bed in the hotel. Oh well, moving on!
Since I didn't need to be in until 9:30am for the rest of the week, the taxi came at 9am. I arrived about 10 minutes early, which was good since I was so nervous that I wouldn't find my way back to the office! When I got to reception to sign in, Holly and Daniel (a.k.a. Ash and Ally) were sitting there chatting. I headed out through the canteen and then the Dog/Savage's boat set, and up to the office perfectly fine (yay!) and was moved to Vicki's desk, as she'd gone on holiday.
Once I got settled in again, I went straight back into what I'd been working on on Monday (one being the 'Welcome Back Myra' behind-the-scenes gallery) What I wasn't expecting, is that I would finish everything I'd been assigned for the week, before Wednesday lunchtime! So I headed off with Ciaran and Dom to find some cast members for....something... (lol) In this trip alone, we encountered (in character names): Neil, Joel, Ste, Doug, Leanne, Dennis, Bart and Brendan.
When we'd finished, we went back to the office and I got started on my new tasks (still can't say what they were yet - this is making for a very boring and frustrating blog! haha)
So fast forward to 5:30pm, pouring with rain outside, and I finally packed up to head 'home' to the hotel!
With the promise of Nando's for dinner, I headed off in the taxi a little earlier than normal, and arrived at 9:15am. When I got up to the office, I don't think I was really awake yet, because I stood outside the door for almost 10 minutes, because it was shut. Didn't quite occur to me to try and open it. I eventually did, and there were actually people inside. Oh well... lol
Anyhoo, as I'd finished EVERYTHING so far, I had nothing to do. Since it was the morning of the GCSE results, I'd enquired as to whether they were planning something for that, as they had with the A Levels. I decided to do something myself, and drew a quick 'Well Done' picture on my iPad, and when everyone else arrived, it was uploaded to Facebook and Twitter (definitely the first time something I've made has gained over 1000 Facebook 'likes' haha)
I then received an info' print-out for a shoot that was taking place that afternoon (more secrets lol)
Since it's already been released, I can tell you that I then began writing the recap blog for Myra's return, going through the episodics archives to find the photos (that would be an album for each week - from 2006 to 2012. Oy...)
After that, I went with Jill and Dom on a mission around pretty much all the sets. It was quite funny to go through the Kane's house and end up in Texas' bedroom (?!) However, as we were making our way through one of the sets, we had to stop suddenly, as a scene was about to be filmed. I will say only this: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.
Once "CUT!" was yelled, we moved on again. On our way back up to the office, we passed Steven and Scarlett (a.k.a. George and Maddie)
A little while later, we were visited by the lovely Danny Mac, a.k.a. Dodger. After a chat and laugh (seriously, he hilarious), Danny, Dom, Ciaran and I headed to the Savage's boat, and filmed that promo for the Twitter challenge. (I was standing on the deck just to the side of the boat in that video lol) We weren't aware that Danny was going to throw that ball, and Dom nearly ended up in the pond! [Fun fact: some eagle-eyed views may have noticed, but there are now railings around the whole of the boat, that weren't there originally. That would be because Danny fell off. He managed to miss the water, though, thanks to some ninja moves. LOL] Also, the duck family is SO noisy!
Back to the office again for a short time, and then off back to the hotel at the usual time of 5:30pm. Oh yea, then Nando's! *woo*
In early for my final day. *sadface* Once again started working on something that I can't talk about yet (you'll see eventually, I swear!
You might have seen, on Twitter that morning, an odd conversation between myself and PJ. Someone outside the office windows began swearing quite loudly, giving us a good laugh. Someone said it was PJ, and it honestly did sound like him. So I tweeted to him, if it was him, could he please pipe down, we're trying to work! lol He replied saying it wasn't him, he wasn't even in work yet, but the question was, who was imitating him?! Haha
Anyway, we popped down to the sets again, and watched some filming, before chatting to some of the cast. What was really cool, was that it was the first time I'd seen the call-sheets. They say who's directing, which actors are involved, which sets are being use, and a brief description of the scene, etc... Again: OMG at some of the things being filmed that day! xD
Another thing you may have seen, was the photo I got for my god-sister, who'd just passed all her GCSEs. Tom (a.k.a. Barney) came up to the office for a while and, lovely guy that he is, he agreed to do the photo! He even offered to talk to her on the phone, but I didn't have any credit, and didn't want to put her on the spot (sorry Anna! xD)
Back down to some of the sets again (mysteries, mysteries... lol) and watched a bit more filming.
And finally, as the day drew to a close, I packed up my junk and headed around the sets one last time to get a few photos.
So...that was my week at the Hollyoaks Digital department in Lime Pictures. SO MUCH FUN! I really do miss it, and I hope to go back again soon! =D Keep a look out for all the awesome online stuff that's coming up (I should know, I made some of it! lol) and the AWESOME storylines too! Trust me on this, you cannot give up yet! HOLLYOAKS FTW!
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