Dizzy - Pedigree Shoot

Diz and I made the journey to Wimbledon Common, London today. Four dogs were shortlisted and attended the day and one of the four will be chosen to appear on ads and packaging for Pedigree foods. Diz had to look happy (panting) and have pics taken in several different poses - Lying down with head up and with chin, lying on her back, standing, sitting, walking towards camera. She was good as gold as per usual and the photographer was impressed with her. We didn't seem any Wombles ;-)

Dizzy - Dogs Trust

We have spent two days this week in Cheltenham at the studios there:

Day 1

After having spent last night in the hotel we didn't have to worry about the journey to the studios as it was 5 minutes down the road. We arrived at 7:30am and met all the crew. Our day went as follows:

Scene 1 - Dizzy had to lie on a vets table with her legs bandaged. Easy enough for her and she was very good, several takes were shot to get the angles right. I am featured as a carer and had to stroke her while she was on the table.

Scene 2 - Dizzy had to take slow steps with her bandages on in the vets surgery. This was difficult as I had to be at her side supporting her, whenever I told her to step she would look at me. So we got Kay to lie in front of the set and tell her to step which worked brilliantly.

Scene 3 - Dizzy was carried by someone through a Dogs Trust waiting room.

Time for lunch, we had a lovely buffet provided for us.

Scene 4 - Bandages off. Dizzy was filmed walking across set, easy enough - no! Well they wanted her walking slower and then when she did she didn't look as happy as when she was going quicker. So that took quite a few takes.

Scene 5 - Outside they filmed Dizzy taking her first steps unaided with me encouraging her.

Scene 6 - On location at a country park. They filmed us walking through the country and jumping (Dizzy not me!) a little pile of logs. They also did some stills of her and some shots of her bounding through the grass from A to B.

Scene 7 - Back at the studios we filmed a split screen with Diz looking into camera and another dog joins her and sits next to her.





Back at the hotel it's 9:30pm! So we go to the pub and have some dinner, Dizzy is absolutely worn out and sleeps well!!

Day 2

Scene 1 - We film a split screen again with Dizzy being joined with two other dogs.

Scene 2 - Out on location again and we film Dizzy wandering lonely and dirty (she was covered with brown make-up and water) down a pavement.

Scene 3 - Dizzy is filmed looking sadly across the road.It starts tipping down with rain so we have to film the pavement one again.

Scene 4 - Diz is filmed stepping out in front of a car.

Scene 5 - Dizzy is filmed playing dead in front of a car.Again back at the studios it's time for some food!! We then take ages showering the gel and make-up off Diz.

Scene 6 - Dizzy jumps onto a chair to look at a noticeboard.

That's it, our work was done. We finished at 4:45pm but the other dogs were then filming so I watched them so I could miss rush hour traffic. I arrived home at 7pm. What a fantastic couple of days - I loved every minute!!

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