

Lance’s story:We were all extremely nervous at first to start on such a huge production! Seeing as we’ve only recently graduated, this was an opportunity not to be missed! We packed our bags, headed over and talked about how excited we were to start our two weeks’ paid trainee jobs.
Not suprisingly – the first day was intense! We were thrown straight in at the deep end! But thanks to Veronica’s training we were more than prepared for the challenges that were about to come our way. After a very busy morning, we found ourselves meeting so many fantastic makeup artists with a great deal of knowledge and experience to share. Everyone was so nice and welcoming, and had nothing but wonderful things to say about us!
Moreover, the next few days were as equally intense, but getting easier day by day. The first week finished off with the feeling that we had gained a lot of confidence and experience. We all agreed about how excited we were to come back for our final week at “Big Ears“!
The start of our second week went equally as well – switching between working in the Crowd Room and getting to experience set life for the first time on a big production was amazing! Thanks to Veronica’s wise words, we knew a lot of the “dos and donts“ of working on set and exactly how you should act (see Veronica’s blog post, here).
As we were coming to the end of the second week and the end of our official pl
acement, we had amazing news that we were all offered the opportunity to stay on! So our 2 weeks turned into 5! We were all completely over the moon!A huge thank you goes to Veronica for putting our names forward for this! And another huge thank you to everyone on Dumbo for being so kind, welcoming and generous with all they do!Have a Disney day!!!