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How did the family and film crew interact? Series Producer Simon
Shaw explains.
 How
many members of the camera crew were working in the house at any
given time?
 We
had three people: a director, a cameraman and a sound recorder.
What
were the basic rules for when and where the camera crew was allowed
to film?
They
could film whenever the Bowlers allowed them to. We tried to make
the family feel at home as possible, so we let them control what
we filmed, but they let us go just about everywhere. We even filmed
Joyce taking a bath, she was very happy with that.
Did
the Bowlers ever ask the camera crew to stop taping?
Not
that I know of. Even the moment when Joyce loses her composure out
in the garden -- which became the defining moment of the early part
of the series. She admits that she actually was pleased that the
camera was there recording that because she wanted everybody to
know what a rotten time she was having.
How
did you prepare the Bowlers for the presence of a camera crew in
their lives?
We
took them to an historic home and filmed them there for a week.
This served a two-fold purpose. First, it helped them learn about
the unfamiliar Victorian appliances they would have to use, which
helped minimize the safety risks. Second, we filmed in a fairly
intensive way four out of the five days we were there to give them
a feeling of what it was like to be on camera so they would eventually
feel natural around the crew. We also lent them a mini-camera for
a couple weeks before they moved in, which they practiced talking
into to prepare themselves for the diary cameras.
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