Diz - Grange Hill

We travelled up to Liverpool bright and early (5:45am!) and arrived for some breakie, I had a large coffee! We then went on to our first location.

Scene 1 - Dizzy chases a boy down an alley. I stood behind camera ready to call Diz and Jodie held her at the top of the alley round the corner. The boy had a head start then Diz was released, she did it perfectly, they did a couple more shots trying out different release times. Then they did a close up of Diz running by herself and then recorded her paws ‘pitter pattering’ on the tarmac.

Scene 2 - Diz has to chase the boy across the road, onto the pavement and round a corner. Again Jodie held Diz out of sight while the boy had a head start. This was a bit more difficult as I didn’t want Diz to run diagonally across the road, she needed to run across and onto the pavement. So the first time I signalled her over and after that she knew what to do! She realised she had to chase the boy so she ended up doing that and didn’t need me there, she thought it was a great game and as soon as they said ‘action’ she was raring to go!

Scene 3 - Back at the studios, Diz chases boy through a fence. Diz had to run out through a hole in the fence, through a bush, down a small wall, stop still and bark at camera. Which she did no problem, we ran a rehearsal then one for real and that was done. The second part, her ‘owner’ (in the scene) goes up to her and tells her to go back. Jodie was hiding through the fence and called her through. Then they needed to record for sound though so Diz had to go through herself, well she took the cue off her ‘owner’ and off she trotted back through the fence. They filmed this a few times, with sound, without and different camera angles. They also filmed a close up of her barking, then recorded her barking for sound.

That was Day 1 complete, Diz had a great time, she is such a good girl.