Usual mayhem in Production office

Pre-production is in full swing. Just employed a very nice production secretary too, but the producers are fairly stingy on money at the moment--so offices aren't too flash. (Maybe Max is pocketing most of the budget anyway).

Location Scouting (pee panic)

Wow--day started off amazingly. Max's chopper was about to leave on the location scout when at the last minute the line producer got diarrhea so they offered his empty seat to me.  20 min into the flight I realised that maybe a trip to to the bathroom before taking off would have been a good idea.  We flew NW (I think) for about 2 hrs over mountains, river and desert (locations for series are top secret so can't say). The aborigines have been here 40,000 years. Ride was AWESOME so took a few shots of the chopper flight with my phone. Saw kangaroos. But after three hours---could hold  it no longer and had to pee in my pants. (The pilot was seriously upset).

Simone Price

I met Simone today. She flew in from London and is going to be the host of the show. She's great, very friendly. I organised flowers and chocolates for her hotel room. Max invited her out to dinner - they seem to get on. She's beautiful - I think she won, or was runnner up to a teen Queen competition a few years ago. (To self - maybe I should become a lesbian).

Max Arrived - Felt like an Ant

I feel like an ant. My first impressions of Max B: He didn't even notice me - and fielded 9 calls on his phone, for about 45 minutes before saying hello. Then after chatting about the big yellow pillar that is over the freeway, his hand wanders over to my thigh. Okay. This is going to be one hell-of-a-production. Dropped him off at the Langham, and then had to go back to the office. The line producer Rupert H is okay, ane he wants me to book a chopper into the outback to scout locations. (Hope there's a seat for me)

Max B arriving

Big day today. I am to be picking up LA producer Max Brunette from the airport. The production office insist I hold a sign at the airport flashing his name - even though I will recognise him (hopefully I won't feel like a dag). This is my first week with MB productions as production coordinator. Not sure what my job is going to entail - but hopefully I am going to be on set. Start shooting in a few weeks, but its all under a cloud of secrecy. They want me to sign this 12 page confidentiality doc which I've not signed yet, so don't know how much detail I'll be able to blog if I do. Anyway, have to ready myself for the airport - touch up my make-up and get out there.