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I played an extra in Crash! Definitely would do it again. I only did it because Christine didn't want to go to a casting call alone, so I accompanied her and got dragged into filling out some info and getting a picture taken. Months later, they called me a couple times only to hear that I had scheduling conflicts which prevented me from going, which of course was all lies. I didn't trust those cameras...
Last time they called, I figured what the heck? It's a new experience, and I'll get to meet new people. I went in a couple days later to play a camera assistant. Do I get to just stand next to the camera operator? Do I get him coffee? No idea. I went in at 2, filled out a waiver, waited a couple hours, a couple more, a few more hours, and then they finally were ready for our scene sometime between 10 and 11, all the while we were getting paid to sit and be supremely bored.
So we get in, they get us props, but they don't have props for me. A camera AC (dunno what that stands for) carries cases and tape and puts tape on the floor to mark where the actors stand and stuff, but there are no cases and they can't scrounge up anything, so I'm demoted to studio intern/bitch, which entailed me getting pretend coffee for the pretend camera OP and the pretend script supervisor. That's kinda what I expected in the first place. Meh.
No problem. I got to walk one way in the studio in the background of the scene carrying four empty cups of coffee (it had to look "full"), walk back with one as if I got a wrong order, and smelling it to see if I really did, and finally back again with the right order. Who knows how many whole milliseconds I'll be in the episode! Eighty-one bucks for a tiny sliver of screen-time. And I was just an extra! Pretty awesome.
Last time they called, I figured what the heck? It's a new experience, and I'll get to meet new people. I went in a couple days later to play a camera assistant. Do I get to just stand next to the camera operator? Do I get him coffee? No idea. I went in at 2, filled out a waiver, waited a couple hours, a couple more, a few more hours, and then they finally were ready for our scene sometime between 10 and 11, all the while we were getting paid to sit and be supremely bored.
So we get in, they get us props, but they don't have props for me. A camera AC (dunno what that stands for) carries cases and tape and puts tape on the floor to mark where the actors stand and stuff, but there are no cases and they can't scrounge up anything, so I'm demoted to studio intern/bitch, which entailed me getting pretend coffee for the pretend camera OP and the pretend script supervisor. That's kinda what I expected in the first place. Meh.
No problem. I got to walk one way in the studio in the background of the scene carrying four empty cups of coffee (it had to look "full"), walk back with one as if I got a wrong order, and smelling it to see if I really did, and finally back again with the right order. Who knows how many whole milliseconds I'll be in the episode! Eighty-one bucks for a tiny sliver of screen-time. And I was just an extra! Pretty awesome.
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