My Awesome Experience on the Set!: My Awesome Experience on a Food Lion Commercial!

Now this blog will probably not top my last blog about the Jungle Book, but nonetheless this job was still pretty cool. The reason why this job was super cool was because they brought a real living lion onto the set! It was super cool and scary! Another cool thing about this was that it was a two-day shoot and they were only a half of a day long. The location of the shoot was at a school somewhere in downtown LA. The campus was pretty nice and I'm positively sure I had filmed there before. But anyway, the scenes I did were actually pretty fun and tasty. I got to sit in a cafeteria and eat real delicious food. I also sat at a table right in front of the camera. I don't know if you can see me or not because things change in an instant in this industry so all you can really do is cross your fingers and hope your scene is still in there. They also said that the commercial was going to air in the east coast so I haven't seen it on TV. But, I got to take really cool pictures of the lion! When they were going to bring the lion on the set, they locked everybody up (especially the kids) in classrooms and told everybody to be absolutely still and quiet. It was about a 20 minute preparation of getting everybody in a safe locked area out of the lion's sight. The crew would communicate via walkie-talkie "Lion coming to set." His wrangler was with him the whole time feeding him pieces of meat along the way. We would all watch through the windows. When the lion wasn't on set, he was outside in this giant metal cage where it slept most of the time. He was so beautiful! It was awesome! After the lion's scene was done and I was back on set, my mom walked over to the lion cage and talked with the trainer for a little bit. It turned out that he had two other lions at home along with many other animals. Most of their animal's especially the lions worked quite often. My mom got to get pretty close to the cage and take pictures while it was sleeping. Overall that was a pretty cool day and it was really cool being on a set with a real life lion!