A Fun Day on Set


Lauren the makeup artist for the day, asked me to sit in her chair so she could touch up any makeup, she was an absolute dream and easy to talk with to understand a little about the industry. Working on set can be tiring as the days are long from early mornings to late nights.

Today I had the opportunity to be interviewed and be an extra on the set at St Luke’s Panty in Chandler Way. Big Zuu has been invited by the Coop to spearhead their Christmas campaign for social media. Normally would spend millions on an advert for Christmas, but with the cost of living crisis that is happening they felt it was unethical to spend that amount for their Christmas advert and decided to invest that money in funding 150 new pantries to open up across the U.K.

Peckham Pantry, where I volunteer was chosen to host Big Zuu in partnership with the Coop, they asked our pantry for volunteers to come forward to be interviewed. My name was put forward, I was excited and a little nervous at the beginning, as I was unsure on how I would come forward on camera. I needed have worried as after my first interview with the crew, they all said how amazing I was and that I was a natural, this was my needed encouragement.

I thoroughly enjoyed the day, there were four of us who were shoppers and I as an ambassador, (our name for volunteers). In the afternoon I had the opportunity to go onto the set and be filmed serving our customers and later as an ambassador serving members of the public. Nathan was great and commanded the set well and kept pushing all who were being filmed to retake certain scenes so they were just right.