Thanks for the encouragement guys. I'm putting together a new resume for my next career as a mannequin.
This happened last summer on the east side of downtown Manhattan at a small park with an ampitheater just north of the Manhattan bridge. It was a 90 degree day and I got a wicked sunburn. About 4 hours of filming and 6 hours of waiting. And $100 in pay. Who said movies are lucrative?
What I learned from the experience ...
- there's an awful lot of hanging aroound while the crews get things together between shots
- they will shoot the same scenes over and over again using different camer angles
- a 5-10 minute scene will be cut back to about 30 seconds for the final film
- the setup crews are amazingly thorough and picky about every little detail that just really doesn't matter in the end. Like concern about everyone's shirt color, or hairstyle, or is your beard trimmed and such. All that for someone who is in the blurry background.
- there is one scene during the graduation where they show a close up of Sally field for about 5 seconds. It took 1 1/2 hours to film that because they kept shifting and changing the people sitting around her. Granted, in the film she just stands out from the crowd around her, so I guess they got the right people around her who look good but don't detract from the star.
