Charlie Productions : Immy Loveday-Brown

Costume Supervisor: "Hallo Panda" "This Anarchist" photo shoot

It's not that often that something that happens happens to feel quite so like it was always meant to be. But that's the way it was with us and Immy - not that we realised it at first. Immy though had the strongest sense upon applying for the costume position on Hallo Panda - and getting turned down - that she would end up working on the film. Whether she also had the strongest sense that she'd find a husband on the shoot is up for debate.

In the meantime, we were managing to get into a mess with various other costume designers pulling out, and one morning we met her in St.Albans for a meeting to see if she was up for the job. Ben was sold immediately. To be honest, he'd had the sense that this Immy Loveday was of interest just in the emails they had exchanged in the first instance. I was having none of it, and waited for Immy to impress me.

Well, she did. Up to the point that Immy trundled up to producer Quinny's house with two huge bags full of costumes for the main cast to try out, we had fallen into a spot of bother, design-wise. Because the main thought we'd always had for Hallo Panda was that it was an Autumnal film. Lots of browns, lots of low morning and afternoon sun, lots of night. Lots of leaves on the ground. Decay. And we were having to make the film in high summer - our night shoot coinciding with the longest day of the year (nice that). So we were confronted with green, lots and lots of green - and very little in the way of browns and reds and oranges, the colour palette we had made our own with Free Speech and Death Of The Revolution.

Enter Immy. She dressed Cariad in lots of 30s style dresses and suddenly it all started to make sense again - this was where our Zoo was at its height, and it had been decaying pretty much ever since. We pushed that style in post and in the poster - and plan to go to town with it in the feature version.

Immy was the person-most-talked-about on set - posh, hot, with a grace and sense of style that meant most of the crew spent their time not staring at the video screens staring at her. Including one Adam Brown, who went on to marry her.

Since then we've tried to work with Immy as much as we can - we value her input, her innate sense of who the characters are - who should play them, how they would look, we feel incredibly comfortable talking this all through with her and she adds so much to every shoot we've done with her. Hopefully we'll keep on working together for a long time to come.

Charlie Productions believe passionately in doing things and always trying to stop in time for tea.

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