"Going for a take - sound running? - camera running ? - AAAND ACTION".
My first experience as a Supporting Artiste for Film & Television was in 1985 for a Training Video for Kodak being filmed at Eastwood Studios near Nottingham.
The main Character was being played by Sean Wilson who played Martin Platt in Coronation Street.
The video was demonstrating how to be polite to the customer and I was the customer who attempted to head-butt the Manager being played by Sean.
Having been an Entertainer since leaving School I had begun as a Guitar/Vocalist, later adding Comedy & Impressions and enjoying reasonable success in the Working Mens Clubs throughout the country from 1960 until 1991.
There are hundreds of people like me who are known by various titles. Extra,Supporting Artiste,Background Artiste, or, as the late talented Pete Postlethwaite called us, "South Africans" (S.A's).
I have compiled a comprehensive diary of all my Film and Television engagements over the past 28 years and will attempt to share those experiences with you in a humorous way over the next few months or more.
I have appeared in 4 films - a Judge at the Albert Hall in "Brassed Off", a butler in "Mrs Brown" with Billy Connolly, a mmber of a male voice choir in " Velvet Goldmine" and a Wedding Reception guest in the latest musical version of "Les Miserables".
My only TV credit to date has been as a Boxing M.C./Referee in episode 23 of Casualty in 1997 having also appeared in over 600 TV programmes as a Supporting Artiste.
My first Television appearance was filmed on 3rd April 1985 in a programme called "Marjorie and Men" starring Patricia Routledge and Paul Freeman which was filmed on location at an hotel in Cromer.
Filming later that morning was interrupted by the sound of snoring because one of us had fallen asleep under the hot lights on set. That was my first lesson - even though you have got to get up and begin your journey at 3.30 am. to be at the venue for your call time - DO NOT FALL ASLEEP ON SET.
I shall begin with August 2nd 1994. I was booked to be a part of a "Gotcha" on Noel's House Party and attended the BBC rehearsal studios in Acton.
A group of us were going to pretend that we were part of a musical group who were singing "Oklahoma" at a fair in Chesham that was  to be opened by Dennis Quilley. After we had completed our morning session of rehearsals we were taken to Wardrobe to be fitted with cowboy outfits. As we walked through the area, there was the Mr. Blobby outfit on a hanger. One of the Ladies with us said "Oh, I do think that the Mr. Blobby character is a most ridiculous creation". A man in our group whispered to me "That's not very flattering is it? because I'm  Mr. Blobby". I said " You must be Barry Killerby, I thought you were a Shakesearian actor, not a singer" He replied that he had accepted the part of Mr. Blobbybecause it had given him regular work on a popular TV show and nobody ever saw his face.
More about the actual day of the "Gotcha" on my next item on 3rd August recalling this day 19 years ago.