Fairlady

And the star of the show is… YOUR HOUSE!

A little girl is eating at a table in what seems to be a neat and ordinary kitchen. Everything around her, however, is organised madness. A camera operator is squatting in front of her amid a barrage of lights and microphones. A makeup artist rushes in to retouch a flaw, and an art director repositions a spoon. Producers, props and costume managers and several technicians cluster around. Wires snake across the floor and the room smells of fresh paint.

This average family home has become a film set for a cereal advertisement, crammed with 50 people, including a full catering service in the garden, portable toilets in the driveway and three blocks of cars and trucks clogging up the suburb.

By tomorrow it’ll be an ordinary home again, with the

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