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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