It’s all singing and dacing. Just a quick update, as we are about to start shooting this coming Sunday. I’ve completed all assessments and got back an immaculately clean CRB record check.
Funny that one should wait so long for that. Even if I haven’t done anything. Anyway, this weekend we make a start. I’m going to be part of the production team, as a runner/driver.
First we organised the distribution of shooting and office equipment. I’m also appointed a the techie guy, so I’ll keep an eye on the kit. 4 cameras, 4 radio mics, 4 boom mics. It sounds all exciting.
I’m looking forward meeting the runner team and doing this now. Probably I’ll have no time to update my blog being a busy I am usually by the time I’d get to my blog I’m so exhausted I could just fall asleep while sitting.
I’m still not allowed to say too much about the project, but perhaps I can say in advance that the program is going to be about the social interaction between the old and young generations in Britain.

I just remembered that at my interview I mentioned when I volunteered in a hospital run by the Hungarian Red Cross movement. It was awkward in the first couple of days and I rememeber I didn’t dare to speak to the less able residents of the hospital, but with time I built up my confidence. It was really liberating talking to the old people about what they have done in their life and most importantly to listen to what they wanted to say. Most of them had very little interaction with the hospital staff. (A vicious cirlce: no money, less qualified nurses, less time for each resident.) By the second week I made friends with a few of the oldies and I had to regularly visit them. Even after my assignment I once returned to see how everyone was doing. It was around summer and I picked a bucketful of cherries which I took in with me. Gosh I was the star of the day on that afternoon! Fresh cherries for everyone. Well, I may just want to interact with “our” oldies in the same way. I mustn’t forget that this is a tv production and it’s not about me.