As many of you know, I made plans to attend The Vampire Diaries Hot Topic event in Atlanta, GA this past weekend. Well, I couldn’t very well, drive 6 hours from Mississippi to Georgia without visiting the town where The Vampire Diaries is filmed, so I found myself in Covington, GA Friday afternoon, and it just so happened they would be in town shooting all day and night. There I met up with several TVD twitter friends. Jessica (@jesstravisl), who lives in Covington, offered to meet up and show me around. Deana and Jo (@TVDGaGirls) from Savannah, GA also joined us, as well as Ella (@groundedsouls) who lives about 2 hours north of Covington. We were later joined by Ashley (@llAsHLeYll), who lives about an hour and a half south of Covington.
When we first arrive on set, it’s about 2PM and they are shooting a scene between Paul Wesley and Matt Davis in the square. Here are a few pics taken by Deana, and I would like to take the time to thank her for allowing me to post these awesome pics. You can view the rest on a page I’ve created here, Vampire Diaries Set Visit 1-22-10.
We really had a great time watching them shoot. After taking a break, and going back to our hotel to check in, we headed back and they had moved the set to outside the Mystic Grill. While we were grabbing a coffee at this really cute gourmet coffees/ice cream/candy store called Scoops, we ran into Sara Canning. I introduced myself to her, and she was extremely nice and so adorable, and later she agreed to take pics with us.
After getting our coffee, we enjoyed watching them shoot several scenes over and over. I couldn’t get over how many times they would have to shoot the scene. Just watching Paul and Nina, I developed this newfound respect for them and how hard they work. And later, I would get to meet them and tell them my feelings personally. Read the rest of the story after the jump!
