Posted by Dom (Runner), Mon 21 Jan 2008 at 15:37 on the official website blog here
Yesterday was freezing! I had to hide in my car to escape the cold and the windows steamed up. But, the misty windows weren’t a blank, virginal canvas. The naughty tykes Mike (Sid) and April (Michelle) had each drawn a cartoon ‘willy’ on one or more of my windows and I had to wipe them off before a passer-by thought I was a sex pest.
We have been filming some very exciting stuff these last few days. Naturally, I can’t tell you much but…there might be a car going very fast through the streets of Bristol, Sid might be in the passenger seat and there might be an unusual vehicle giving chase. On seeing Mike pass by in the car, one booze-soaked onlooker shouted, “Ere, there’s that Harry Potter” and then staggered off mentioning something about kebabs. During a recent outdoor shoot, an old lady asked what we were doing “What are you doing” she said. “Filming a telly programme called Skins” I said. “Skids?” she said, and then in her finest Bristolian accent, “Haven’t you got anything better to do?” I had no answer. It was a good question though;didn’t we? Well, not really. You see, there are some rubbish jobs available at the job centre (I’ve tried most of them) but working on a program like Skins isn’t one of them. The days are long, you might be outside all day filming a slug eating a sock but it’s not like cleaning toilets or selling yer body for cash. That’s real work. I should know.
Dom (Runner)
