Ok, ok… again, it has been awhile since I’ve
written, but you know how it is… life gets in the way!!
Talking about life, in my world living life
to the full comes from constantly pushing your comfort zone, testing the limits
and doing new and exciting things.
I think it’s safe to say that being flown to Sydney to shoot for the
2015, 12WBT advertising campaign has COMPLETELY taken me outside my comfort
zone!
Exactly one week after being contacted by
12WBT to feature in the advert, I found myself leaving work to board a plane to
Sydney. Before I knew it, I was on
Oxford Street, in a dressing room with three lovely stylists throwing
combination after combination of apparel at me to try on. So, yeah, apparently mint is my
colour! Wait. I haven’t yet mentioned how incredibly
nervous about this whole thing I was.
Like super nervous, like “what have I gotten myself into?” nervous! This was SO out of my comfort
zone! But every single one of the
crew were wonderful, very relaxed and easy to talk to and work with. Once I realised this I started to relax
and simply enjoy the moment. So
once our outfits had been chosen and deemed to be a good balance of colour and
styles, we were treated to a beautiful dinner at a gorgeous little Thai street
food restaurant ‘House’ - I highly recommend it!
So I’ll give you one guess where I was at 6am
the next morning… yep, you got it! The Hotel Gym! It was a great way to mentally prepare myself for the
day ahead. Yet before I knew it I
found myself at the Royal Hall of Industries, in our waiting room, sitting in
the hair and makeup seat, listening to the stylist talk about exactly what the Director
had requested for me… wow! I was definitely feeling like a star! They even had the cool movie star
mirrors with the light bulbs around the edge! Then in Mish’s words “welcome to the glamorous world of
television, hurry up and wait!” So
we waited, waited and waited! Yep,
there is a lot of waiting in film!
There were so many wonderful people to talk to and get to know though,
that time flew regardless of the waiting times.
Yep time was flying because before I knew it I was in front
of a huge camera, with the other lovely ladies literally standing behind Mish
as we shot the final scene for the TV advert. It was so exciting; I mean we were literally standing in the
spotlight with stylists running around us making sure every piece of hair was
in place! It was nerve racking,
but exciting, and when we starting karate kicking, all we could do was laugh
and have a blast! Then came the
individual shots… I found that really hard, being the complete and utter center
of attention on camera? Yep- I
struggled and was hardly natural, well the lovely Lara made me laugh, and I got
into a heated discussion with the photographer about the correct lunging
technique! All in good fun! My final shoot was a video
testimonial. It’s safe to say that
this was the one shot I was super nervous about. Just me, on camera… talking about my experiences with
12WBT. They wanted raw and
natural, well lets just say, that’s what they got! I’m very interested to see what they do with that
footage. This is where I mention
that even a year ago, there would have been no way in hell I would have agreed
to be featured! I agreed to do
this shoot for two main reasons; it was about pushing my boundaries and
conquering my fear of the camera. If
I can do what I did that day, I can do anything!
Liz Xox
Look out for me in the TV advert!! =D
