Call time @ 8:30pm
Location: Langley
Set: Snowy White Christmas (outdoor with man-made snow)
I was very excited to get booked for this one, because it's a COMMERCIAL. I've never done commercial before and I've heard from other backgrounds that commercial pay is usually good. Regardless, I wanted to be on commercial anyhow. So there I was, for the Reebok shoes.
When I arrived, I was instantly amazed by the set that I saw -- very beautiful wooden house covered in both fake and real snow! The house was lit by orange light, its roof was covered by white blanket so from far, it looked like it was covered by snow. The crew was working hard making real snow. And I was working hard standing there and watching them :P
It was a long night of waiting, the backgrounds pretty much just waited for 7 hours and didn't get to go on set at all! Even though you could say it's great that you get paid without having to work, but it would be so cool to be on the snow set and be seen in the commercial if we were lucky. Anyhow, no complaints, the meal was great, the catering had the most wonderful, delicious dessert, and awesome people on set. I've taken many photos of the meal, extras holding tent and the set from far (as many passerby and crew people took photos so I thought I would too, though I shouldn't really have... I hope I don't fired by showing photos here...fingers crossed!) and a bunny!! I've got a little "Bunny Rescue" story to share with you all.
So as usually, we were waiting at our holding (see picture on the right) and I was just standing by the holding and watching the snow machine making real snow. There are about 2 cats from the neighbourhood that joined us for the night, they were friendly cats and would let us pet them. It was all peaceful for the first several hours. Suddenly, some human yelling broke the silence and some other weird animal sound, sounded like a guinea pig! It was a high pitch but uneasy sound. It got my attention right away because I realized right away that there was a little bunny was yelling for help. I saw a crew member was running after one of the neighbour cats! I started running after him though I wasn't sure if I should do this, I acted without thinking much. Anyway, what I saw was a cat chasing after a little bunny (seriously, it looked like a mouse!!) and there were 2 crew guys chasing after this cat, trying to stop the cat from eating the poor bunny. I caught up and asked what happened. They told me that it's a little bunny, must be a wild one and the cats were about to eat it. One of the cats had it in its mouth!Omg! That is so scary. I saw the bunny in the cat's mouth. One of the crew guys hit the cat with a plastic box, tried to scare the cat so it would free that little poor thing. The cat freed the bunny and the bunny quickly went into the bushes. Before it ran into the bushes, I saw blood and wound on its back. Those friendly crew guys had to go back to work so they left. The cats wouldn't give up, they were still hunting around the bushes trying to find the bunny. I didn't know what to do to help so I just stood around the bushes and scared the cats away. Cats, or I should say animals, are smart. They knew that I was there to stop them so they just hid under a truck near the bushes and waited for me to leave. After awhile I thought the cats would give up and I didn't see or hear the bunny nearby, thought it must've gotten away without me noticing. So I walked back to my holding tent. Just not long after I left, the cats GOT the bunny, had it in the mouth. I saw and said "SHIT!" and started running after the cats. Cats saw me running toward them so they ran into someone's garden. I chased and decided to "break in" the garden and threw little rocks at the cats and finally the cat let go of the bunny. The bunny was so tiny! One of the backgrounds at the holding heard me saying "SHIT!" and followed me behind, she was brave and nice enough to grab the injured bunny for me. I didn't know if I should touch the bunny because it might have disease or what not. That poor bunny was hurt, blood on its back, part of the back had no fur, you could see bare skin. That little was terrified and shaking like crazy as it was in her hands.
YEAY! We did rescued the bunny. I was so happy.
The other backgrounds at the holding saw us coming back with a little creature in her hands and came up and asked what happened. I told them the story in short, said the bunny is now safe in her hands. They saw the bunny and went "awwwwww! look at this poor thing". We looked for a box to put the bunny in. We "stole" a cardboard box from the catering truck (because she wasn't around =P but we asked her when she showed up). The catering lady was so generous, she gave the bunny lettuce and a big carrot. But it was terrified, wouldn't move, wouldn't eat a thing.
I was thinking, so what's next? What should we do with the bunny? Should I take it home? Bring it to the vet?
Luckily, there was a nice lady from the traffic control team saw us with the bunny and heard about the story. She told us that she has a farm and has a lot of rescued animals. So we all thought it was the best idea for her to bring it home. What a relief! At least we know that the bunny could be in good hands, safe and sound. Everyone was happy :)
By the way, did I say that the meal was great and the dessert was SO GOOD. Too bad I don't have a photo of the dessert, but oh my, YUMMY!
