Lights, Camera, Action!

Saturday, we woke up pretty early. Jes started memorizing the lines
for the movie trailer we were suppose to be starring in today, while I
decided it would be a better use of my time to pack for Beijing. It
would have been cool to learn the lines, but there was a lot of lines,
one script for the both of us to share, and hardly no time to do it
in. He also wanted us to learn both parts and he would choose later
which character he wanted us to be, judging by our performance. So, we
decided Jes should try to learn the part since she was more interested
and it would have been impossible for us both to learn it.

We got ready and took a cab to the Westin hotel at 2pm to meet the
movie crew. The movie was being filmed in Guangzhou but actually takes
place in Hong Kong. He was going to film the backgrounds separately
and then merge the shots together. Anyways, they filmed the first
scene at the hotel, which we weren't in so we just used the free wifi
for the hotel. Steve came with us too by the way to make sure we were
okay. We left the hotel to go to the next location of the movie
trailer, a flower shop. This scene was between Julia and Theo, played
by Jes and Will, a British guy. We filmed there for about an hour out
on the street at this flower shop. People were gathering around and
taking pictures. It was funny though since they couldn't have
understood what was being said since it was in English! I got some
video footage on my phone of Jes in action.

When we were done there, we set off looking for a Starbucks, where the
next scene would be shot. We tried a few before we found the right
one. This scene I played in with Will, so it was "the blonde" and Theo
on a date at a coffee shop. I have some good videos on my phone, but
unfortunately no pictures to post. Next, we went upstairs to shoot the
last scene of the day with "Julia and Theo". Jes played the role of
Julia first and then we switched and I played the role of Julia. The
director, Steve, said he would choose which one he liked later, which
made no sense to us! Oh well though, it was a fun day and we made some
new friends! It was definitely worth it to have an experience like
this while in China.