Two of us and the director of our video did the "Granny Trek" today in aid of the Children's Hospice SouthWest, around Charlcombe Farm, where the Bristol Children's Hospice is. ( There are actually three under the Children's Hospice SouthWest umbrella: this one, one at Barnstaple and one being built at st Austell) It was a lovely day, and great fun, and lots of other friendly people were walking. The position of the Hospice is so wonderful it gives a hint of what it means to families, and it made us more determined to do what we can to raise money for this incredible organisation. The hospice buildings are in the background behind us here.

Want to help?

volunteers ad on bristol media website

We are looking for Volunteers.

-Camera man or woman (and someone who would be able to advise us on the best equipment for the job)

-‘Making of’ video director/camera/edit (with own equipment, who can get on unnoticed and make a record of the day) We hope to have this as a viral on you tube.

-Runner (someone with on set experience who can help out where necessary)

We are also looking for sponsorship from a company for camera and equipment hire for the day, and possibly another day soon after if needed. There will be filmed credits at the end of the video. It will be available to buy on itunes and for sale at local stores on CD.

This is a ‘no budget’ film, but we will do our best to provide food and transport for the day. Filming will be at one location in Bath.

If you are interested please email Tessa and Shirley
tgtreetoppers@googlemail.com
Please send us any links to previous work/Showreel.
Thank you!

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The pile of fairy "stuff" on the spare bed is really growing!

Had a great day storyboarding for the video to go with the charity single. We want it to be funny, with lots of jokes all the way through like Wallace and Grommit, so it's been a lot of fun thinking of visual jokes and puns and little things to put in the backgrounds as well as the actual action of the video. Filming begins in June, but there's lots of work to do before then, and a huge list of props to write next!

Just realised that we haven't put our logo up here yet. This is a sneak preview of "Bossy" - apparently my mother knew that it was me straight away which I'm not sure I'm too happy about, but she says it's because of the tree. (?)

Went to a Children's Hospice SouthWest coffee morning this morning, and several of the other fairies from the TG Treetoppers were there. They are sorting out their "characters" ready for filming, and unfortunately we seemed to have two knitting fairies, but all is well as one of them is turning to flowers instead. I am getting very much into character as " the bossy fairy", a character trait I am beginning to suspect comes all too naturally. It is lovely that everyone is getting very enthusiastic about this project, and offers of help are coming in from all sides.
there is a script meeting on Thursday, and I'm looking forward to that, Received a fat envelope full of very funny ideas from one fairy this morning that had me laughing out loud.

Well, I said back at the beginning that I was going to credit the writer of our charity song once I could remember his name, sorry Pete, had to ask my brother in the end, but thanks very much to Pete Young for writing It's A New World Now It's Christmas and letting us record it in aid of the Children's Hospice SouthWest

It was our Guild meeting today, and the excitement is rising - the feather boas have arrived! Putting together the costumes is fun, and I know we're all going to have a great time dressing up as fairies to sing and to make the video. Just hope that people will enjoy it with us and buy the record for Christmas, so that the Children's Hospice SouthWest will really benefit.

Lots of lovely people are offering us help with aspects of making/selling our charity single. It's wonderful to know that despite our difficult times people still have hearts of gold! We need all the help we can get though!

Hope you like our photo - of course, that is us looking relatively normal, except for the wings, and we've got a lot more planned in the way of costume before we get much further! We might as well have some fun while we try to raise money for the Children's Hospice South West.

First photo...