Then each decade, as the house became slightly more modernised, I'd start to see our original home start to emerge again." The only time I would get my bearings would be when somebody walked into the bathroom and opened the door and I thought oh, OK, this is where I am. During filming, I'd be sitting in 'our' 1950s lounge room, our open staircase had been boarded up and a fake fireplace put on it and I remember thinking I don't know where I am in my own home. Upstairs became the production office and the only rooms they didn't touch downstairs were the bathroom and the laundry. "It was mind-blowing, our house was gutted and renovated eight times," Carol recalls. The Ferrones make their TV debut in Back In Time For Dinner which was filmed in their own home. I knew I was going to end up with an open plan house, so I started dividing it up and made it like a puzzle and then every decade another room would open up." "Architecturally, it was quite cool as I worked backwards. "Carol's house is open plan and she was really worried when I told her I was going to rip out her kitchen and move it to the other side of the house and divide up the house into smaller living spaces because in the past they had a separate dining room, separate kitchen, separate everything," Jason says. The first series, Back In Time For Dinner, was filmed in the Ferrone's own home, with the downstairs interior being ripped apart and remodelled several times. Everything was chucked away so that was really difficult." But the hardest years to do were the 1980s when throwaway culture started. "If, for example, we're doing something from the early 1900s, we are supposed to be living as if it's the 1900s so the packaging needs to look new so we'd have to make multiples of cereal boxes and canned goods. Packaging of food items was the most challenging to source and when they couldn't find originals in good condition the set dressers made replicas.
Once the show's researchers come up with storylines for each decade he gets to work on the design. So, we truly live according to whatever decade that we're up to."Ĭreating an authentic set is the job of production designer and art director Jason Schara and his team. "Even when we go home for a few days in between set changes we actually try to keep eating to the period otherwise we can get sick, which we did experience a little bit in the last couple of seasons. "Our bed that you won't even see in the show had these beautiful 1900s hand embroidered – mind you itchy - sheets and last season in Further Back In Time … our mattress was a straw bloody mattress!! I think they like to torture us.
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In this series, we got a TV when we got to filming the 1950s era but prior to that we had no television, there's no mobile phones. "It's not like the crew goes home at 9 or 10 o'clock at night or whenever we finish filming and then we flick on our laptops and TVs and order UberEats, we live 24 hours, seven days in that period.
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"It's a 24-hour full immersion," Carol says. It is filmed in a former corner store (until 2016) in the Sydney suburb of Botany.Ĭarol Ferrone is passionate about history and sharing it with viewers. In the latest series, the Ferrones and host Annabel Crabb explore the history of the corner shop over 150 years from the 1850s to the 1990s. It's been hard at times but it makes me emotional to think how wonderful this experience has been."
"Julian and I are history buffs and we feel like we are making history relevant and relatable.
I felt like at the very least we're going to have a really great seven-part family home video to show our grandkids, but it's been a really fun experience for us to do together and we've learned so much, as a family, about our Indigenous culture and the evolution of Australia as a people and a culture. "We had no idea what we were getting into - not that we wouldn't have done it anyway - and we had no idea how successful the show would be. The producers had been looking for months and hadn't found the right family and turned out we were the right family. "Funnily enough, I'd actually seen the casting call on social media about three months prior and had sent it to Peter and said, you know, we should apply for this, but we were too busy and never got around to it. "We were at the shops, and somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'I like the look of your family, are you interested in auditioning for this TV show?" Carol recalls.
Crabb and the Ferrone family in the 1920s episode of Further Back In Time For Dinner.
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