Napoleonic Era

A day as a filmstar

By Adam Fisher Yr 7

My day started quite early as I had to wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning because I had to be at Smart City at 6 o’clock to put on my costume. There was an option to eat breakfast but I refused since I had already eaten breakfast, so we went straight to changing. The shirt was a rough white colour, on top of that was a vest which was maroon and midnight blue, and a dark brown velvet jacket. I had shorts that looked old and were greyish. My socks were palace green whilst the shoes were uncomfortable since they were ones that got thinner the further to the end of your foot. My brother was done after me but we went out of the changing area at the same time. We saw the other 6-7 children selected. Some of them seemed to be around 6 years of age while others were around 15. We went to a place where we got our hair looking good and a make up place with fake dirt as we were poor children. The make up artists spoke a lot with you during make-up.

Now we got on the buses, it’s funny as there were only 10 of us children and supervisors in a bus that could take 50 people. We went to Għajn Tuffieħa to start filming. At first, we children had to play around but the director changed his mind so instead we did work such as fixing nets and moving a bucket of fake crabs from one point to another. While doing this, Napoleon and some of his people would sail to the shore on a rowboat and we were supposed to greet them.

After a lot of takes we took a rest and ate sandwiches and sweets. Once the Director said that we would not be in any other scenes, we went back to Smart City. Not only that but we went back on my school van with my very own driver driving it! Quite a coincidence, I thought to myself! Now, we undressed into our normal clothes and went to see my father waiting for us. He had to fill in some forms and then we returned home exactly one hour before the usual time we normally arrive home.