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I'm gonna be a star!
Jul. 19th, 2010 08:03 amOk, well, not a star, but i'm going to have my 15 minutes of fame. Well, probably not 15 minutes, more like 2 minutes if i'm lucky. But it's fame, nonetheless! You may recall that i was contacted to participate in a documentary about Canadian Coronation Street fans? No? Well I was, and yesterday was the big day. We scheduled a ping to fit in with the film crew's schedule and they arrived and got set up. It was pretty good, too, though they had a microphone on me and one other guy all through it. That means be careful what you say! Oh, and please take it off while i nip to the loo! There are some things you don't need to hear! Here's Steve and Joe at the ping. Mobile phone camera, no flash.
Those of us who were doing things for the ping, like the quiz or a chat about the show, sometimes had to redo it for the cameras, for a different angle or so they could catch it properly.
After the ping, the crew came to my apartment. What a palaver that was and it was utter chaos with equipment and cables everywhere! They move things around and "dress" the views behind the camera so it looks balanced, they had to arrange the lights and keep my curtains closed so the light would be more even i guess. There was a sound man, Joe, and a camera man, Steve, and the director, Eunice. I had to change my top a few times as i couldn't wear the same thing i had on at the ping and the interview was to be a different top than the one i was wearing when they filmed me on Graham's webcam since we were then going to shoot my side of that conversation. Everything had to match so some little old lady from the middle of nowhere wouldn't call up the CBC and complain. ;))
The interview itself was ok. I was a little nervous but not too much. I was more worried about prattling on a bit but if i did, or if i stumbled on words, they just restarted. The director sat right beside the camera so i was looking at her all the time, not into the camera and i had to try not to look around the room as i was speaking, too. We talked about how![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gramie_dee and i met and fell in love, which was one of the main focuses of my bit in the doc, i think. We also talked about the corrie scene in Halifax, and my involvement in it. She gave me some trivia to answer and got me to pose a question as well. Then we went to the webcam and went through the conversations we'd done a few weeks ago. They sent us a transcript to go by. That was repeated several times to get different angles and some with G. wearing his glasses and some without because they couldn't remember if he was wearing them when they filmed his side of the cam conversation.
It was a very warm day but for most of the time it wasn't too hot in my apartment. They did leave my fan on low as it was very quiet but by the end of the time they were there, it was getting pretty warm in there. I'd say they were there almost 3 hours by the time they packed up and reset my apartment. That's it for my part though she wants some photos as well so i'll have to dig out some old disks! Here's Steve, Eunice and Joe giving me the Horns Up as they were leaving!
The documentary is going to be called Corrie Crazy and will be on CBC in Canada on December 9, to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of Coronation Street.
Those of us who were doing things for the ping, like the quiz or a chat about the show, sometimes had to redo it for the cameras, for a different angle or so they could catch it properly.
After the ping, the crew came to my apartment. What a palaver that was and it was utter chaos with equipment and cables everywhere! They move things around and "dress" the views behind the camera so it looks balanced, they had to arrange the lights and keep my curtains closed so the light would be more even i guess. There was a sound man, Joe, and a camera man, Steve, and the director, Eunice. I had to change my top a few times as i couldn't wear the same thing i had on at the ping and the interview was to be a different top than the one i was wearing when they filmed me on Graham's webcam since we were then going to shoot my side of that conversation. Everything had to match so some little old lady from the middle of nowhere wouldn't call up the CBC and complain. ;))
The interview itself was ok. I was a little nervous but not too much. I was more worried about prattling on a bit but if i did, or if i stumbled on words, they just restarted. The director sat right beside the camera so i was looking at her all the time, not into the camera and i had to try not to look around the room as i was speaking, too. We talked about how
gramie_dee and i met and fell in love, which was one of the main focuses of my bit in the doc, i think. We also talked about the corrie scene in Halifax, and my involvement in it. She gave me some trivia to answer and got me to pose a question as well. Then we went to the webcam and went through the conversations we'd done a few weeks ago. They sent us a transcript to go by. That was repeated several times to get different angles and some with G. wearing his glasses and some without because they couldn't remember if he was wearing them when they filmed his side of the cam conversation. It was a very warm day but for most of the time it wasn't too hot in my apartment. They did leave my fan on low as it was very quiet but by the end of the time they were there, it was getting pretty warm in there. I'd say they were there almost 3 hours by the time they packed up and reset my apartment. That's it for my part though she wants some photos as well so i'll have to dig out some old disks! Here's Steve, Eunice and Joe giving me the Horns Up as they were leaving!
The documentary is going to be called Corrie Crazy and will be on CBC in Canada on December 9, to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of Coronation Street.
