[fiestyredhead331]

calling all Skye crofters!
Anyone else involved in the filming of a TV advert next week?
Sounds fun if not a little weird, involves sheep, goats are Sir Ian McKellen!

[Creagan]

Not involved myself, but I did see that someone was looking for a photogenic goat suitable for filming!

[fiestyredhead331]

All goats are photogenic     

[Hamish Crofter]

This is being filmed just down the road from us. They have been there a few days. I'm not sure what the foreign tourists are making of it as between takes all the crew and cast go off set and leave a flock of sheep grazing and they all have large boxes with hotel advertisements strapped on top of their backs. It looks very funny.

[fiestyredhead331]

we've been getting some very strange looks, we wrapped yesterday at 6pm after going over schedule for a day.
i'm trying to get the pics off my camera and then you can see up close about the boxes or as they art dept called them...costumes... there were 2 flocks, one lot in the fank and a flock of supposedly 'tame' sheep doing other things on the hillside
It was good fun but a loooooong day 8am unit meeting then up on the hill til 10.30pm on Friday night and back again at 8am Saturday!
They wanted my black Shetland Oprah to run in a reasonably straight line from point A - B but the director wanted to know how they could 'motivate' her to do what they wanted!! Leave it to me I said.....bucket of feed and me at point B 

[fiestyredhead331]

a couple of pics from yesterday :-)

[Hamish Crofter]

Yes.....having been in the film industry many years ago I recall the long days and downsides of an industry that people assume is glamorous. I now give a wry smile and a very wide berth to the many requests we have  on Skye for film extras.......I think many of the locals on Skye know exactly what I mean.

[Bionic]

The sheep don't look overly impressed 

[fiestyredhead331]

the novelty had worn off by day 2 as had some of the paint etc 
my goat Skye just wanted to eat her costume!

[fiestyredhead331]

the ad has now been televised, caught it on STV/ITV on Christmas Day, seems to be on afternoon/evening so keep an eye out for it, its Kayak and you can't miss the sheep if you're in any doubt 
for anyone not caught it yet I have included a link here for the production company
http://lsproductions.com/about/our-work/case-studies/kayak