[Groop] Fwd: Extras

[John T]

Janet Harriett wrote:

Well, I did some indoor sceens for the TV series Providence. Never used 
the shot in the series. Then I was outside on construction site for 
series call Waterfront (never aired). It was drizzling all day. I got 
yelled at because I walked up to union lunch table to get a bottle of 
water. I had walk an extra 30 feet to the non-union lunch table to get 
one. I think I would have been in some scenes because I was paired with 
a SAG extra (the reason I was near the union table). She moved us around 
for the angles on the shots. The sceene was a goundbreaking cermony. We 
had to prend to talk. We couldn't speak, so we mouthed words. I arrived 
at 6:00AM and broke at 8:00PM. She got 12.00hr, I got 8.00hr.
>> By the way, if you ever get chance to work as an extra you should do. You may only want to once! It is an experience. Just don't to try to get food from the Union lunch table!
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>> John
> Seconded! Last summer, Elie and I got to be extras in an independent film (so, no union lunch table). It's an epic fantasy-style movie - very Groo-esque in the period - so we got wardrobe and everything, and between takes, the fight coordinator was giving swordfighting lessons. I wanted to keep the dress they had me in! I'm not sure who was happier: me, for getting to wear the dress, or the wardrobe people for having an extra that the dress would fit.
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> One lesson we learned the hard way: wear sunblock if it's an outdoor shoot. We forgot that our job description was basically "Stand outside all day in exchange for a ham sandwich." The aforementioned dress was white on the right side, red on the left (once I had it on right-side-forward...funny story there), and as the day progressed, my neck shifted from matching one side to matching the other.
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> Janet
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