A shaky start but all's well
Post categories: Production team
| 17:34 UK time, Sunday, 6 July 2008
Series Director Andy Vernon shares his thoughts about the first day filming.
"We had an interesting start to filming today, when we realised that the tapes that we need to use for our gib shots were the wrong sort! (All footage for the show is filmed in high definition so that viewers with the correct TV sets switch to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD channel to experience finer detail of all the plants and gardens.)
"This added an extra element of excitement to an already packed day and after a few moments of panic some additional tape stock was soon on the way.
"However we have a tight schedule to get everything shot and edited ready for tomorrow night's preview show on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two, so we had to keep filming using what little tape we had left. In the end we managed to film the opening sequence for the programme using the 8 minutes of tape we had remaining. Luckily for us everything went well and we managed to film the entire sequence in one take.
"After a slightly shaky start the rest of the day has gone quite smoothly despite the best efforts of the British weather to throw us off course. We're all really enjoying ourselves, everyone's getting on well and we're really looking forward to the rest of our week at the show."
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