LOL production blog

This webisode was unusual in that the footage was shot across two blocks. Half was filmed in April, with the new, re-written scenes shot in August. The reason for doing this was that the original story revolved around Jaz telling Cam he was the father of her baby. As Nico was unavailable for the later [...]

Jaz is pregnant. Her mum has just found out. There’s going to be fall out.

This ep introduces a guest character, Phil Dawber, played by Matt Aistrup (who actually originally came in and auditioned for Garner). As this was the last time we’d see Dawber, it felt right to explore a side of his life we’d [...]

Webisode 11 sees the start of the Jaz three-parter, exploring how she deals with the news she’s pregnant. Although LOL is primarily Keely’s story, it felt like we couldn’t play a pregnancy storyline without exploring the fall out. As such - this is the first ep not to feature Keely!
Jaz began the series as quite [...]

Regular viewers of LOL will recognise the name ‘Bird Automatic’ often appearing in the music credits of the show. They’re a Sydney based band that very kindly allowed us to feature their awesome tracks.

This was our third block of filming for LOL in April 2009. Over two days we were to shoot the school and party episodes. There was something like 30 scenes, though a couple of these doubled up in the party episodes, where we switched perspectives between Keely, Jaz and Cam.

April 17th 2009: Over the weekend, we’re shooting four webisodes - one set in school, and three showing the different experiences at a party.

Webisode 6 was a strange one for us production wise. Mainly as originally - it was never meant to exist!

Webisode 5 was shot in February 2009 and was our toughest shoot yet. I always wanted Skellhorn and Mase to drive somewhere that seemed real, so we filmed the car scenes in a remote industrial estate.

Webisodes 1 - 3 were shot in September 2008, as a pilot for LOL. The rest of the series started shooting, starting with webisodes 4 and 5 in February 2009. Six months later. A lot can change in that time. Namely, the hair colour of lead actors!
Nicola (Keely Cooper) had dyed her hair brown between [...]

Another six months…and two more LOL webisodes done and dusted!