The whole building was bigger than one would believe from seeing it from the outside. Viktoria showed us almost everything of it and we got to know many of the workers. It was really interesting to see what was going on behind the fronts. At the end of the tour we took the lift to the 15th floor, which was actually the highest floor.
When we arrived in the 15th floor and exited the lift, we saw two big white double doors. Viktoria leaded us through the right door and through a few more floors until we arrived a small office in which Caryl was already sitting at a table.
"Hi, how did you two like the tour?" she asked while she sorted some sheets, that were messily laying around on her table.
"It was really nice" and it indeed was. When I heard, that we would see the whole headquarter, I thought that it would just be another big office block, like one imagined. But it was actually exciting to see what was going on here and what the people working here did all day long.
"Yeah, I liked it too." Noah said shortly. I noticed that Noah hadn't really talked that much today. He just spoke when someone was directly talking to him, or like now asked how we liked something or so. Otherwise he just stayed out of the conversations.
"Very Nice. Please take a seat" Viktoria requested. "So, you already read your text earlier, did you notice something you would like to change?"
"Oh no, I really liked it." I said and took a quick look at the papers that Viktoria laid in front of me. I expected the text to be a little bit quirky but it was actually good, it was something I would come up myself if i had to wright it.
"Ok that's good. Now we will go through the text together and practice your articulation and mimic to it."
And this was exactly what we did for the next 20 minutes. Except for the main video, my texts weren't that long and pretty easy to inculcate.
When we were finished with all three texts, we finally went into the studio, which was just a few floors further. It was much more exciting than everything else we have already seen today. In this big room there was a great number of big cameras, microphones, lights and screens and of course many people running around and checking things. Standing in the middle of everything, let me realize that I was indeed about to shoot an advert campaign with fricking unicef.
A few of the people here introduced themselves to me, like the regisseur, Andy Thompson. He explained to me how he had imagined the shoot and how it'll work.
For each of the three videos, there'd be one time for practice in front of the camera and two other tries. After that there would be the photo shooting.
"Ok Julia, please go over there into the make up and hair" Andy instructed and I did as I was told. I went over into a corner where two girls already waited for me and let me sit into a high chair with a big mirror and bright lights in front of me. Within 10 minutes or so, the two girls had fixed my hair and redid my light make up and sent me back to Andy.
Andy looked at me when I came back and looked satisfied. "Nice" he said with a small smile and clapped his hands. "Is every camera and microphone set?" he suddenly screamed through the studio and from somewhere you could hear a muffled "Yes".
"Julia, you know you text, right?". "Right"
"Perfect, then please go over there and stand on the mark and face the camera lens. In a bit I will call 'Action' and after that you can calmly say your text. Understand?" he explained. He sounded as if he was explaining something to a kindergarten kid but I just nodded friendly.
The first moment I stood in front of the camera, the big bright lights blinded me and I had to blink a few times. Andy discussed something with the guy who held the microphone, so I went through my text in my head once more. I tried to suppress my nervousness, which was slowly occurring. When I looked in front of me again I saw that Andy was ready and waiting for me.
"Ready?" he asked and I nodded. "ACTION" he screamed and suddenly everything was quiet. A woman with a wired microphone in her face stepped in front of the camera and clapped this black and white clapperboard.
I took my time and said my text as calmly and normal as I could. I wasn't really succeeding at the first time but there were two other tries that luckily went better.
Between every text change Caryl came up and we went through the text one last time and when we were finished the girls from the make up and hair refreshed mine.
The photographer then took photos of me with the whole team and of me alone and was finished after 15 minutes.
Viktoria came to me and told me that we had the break now and explained when and where we would meet again.
Together with Noah we talked about that we would first go into our hotel first and then into the city to look for some place to eat.
The shoot was really great, even if it did not sound that exciting, I really liked it to stand in front of a camera. But I was way more excited about the whole cooperation with unicef. I really hope that this campaign would align something. I honestly don't know why but since I was a little kid I always wanted to do good things. I guess a big part came from when my parents teached me that not everybody had so many luck like we did. Even if our life is not perfect all the time, we can consider ourselves as pretty lucky, we have a happy family, regular and good income, a nice home and a comfy bed for the night. Since I found out that not many people had things like that, I wanted to commit myself for those in need. But because of my age and that I still had to go to school, I couldnt really do anything big before. So I really hoped that this campaign could do something.
And the cooperation with unicef had another advantage for me.
Many people know me, because of my parents, and I guess this wont change until I do something for myself. I always hear how people talk about me as 'The daughter of', what of course isnt a bad thing but I would rather hear them talking about 'Julia Bruckheimer' as an own person.
This was the first time I would step into publicity without my parents and I was really looking forward to the AMA's, where I would held the speech about UnicefYoung in front of the whole audience and TV viewers.
Noah and I were quickly finished at our hotel and then just searched for a café and spend the rest of our break there. We talked about the evening and the upcoming flight tomorrow and then just went back to the unicef building.
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Ok so i know that this part is really short and i am truly not satisfied with it. And it obviously took me way to much time.
But the next chapter will be better i promise
