extras on tv / movies?

[Guest freedomfighter]

Dancing in the street.

[FADEtoDARKNESS]

My friend is in a Renee flemming music video. I'll post the link when the video comes out.

[genzou]

i was in percy jackson as a special ability extra. it was my first n last gig.

what i heard from other extras that did it for living, they all seemed to have an agent.

so find urself an agent

[AstroWolf]

i worked as a PA on nyc films for a dose.

Extra work is lame. If you want more work at it, you have to not be on screen so they can use you more than one day, if you are noticeable in a shot they will not want to use you again.

[pieiskewl]

i was almost an extra in the avatar the last airbender movie

went to an open casting call and made it through the first round of call backs, but that was it no second call back

so i guess look around for open casting calls in your area, definitely has to be some in nyc

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i understand extras are made to repeat the word "banana" to simulate ambient chatter in, say, restaurant scenes

hope that helps

[zenii]

i knew a girl who played an extra on lady gaga's "telephone" music video.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i dated a girl whose dance instructor was the zombie with the flower in her hat in the thriller video

[Guest on-display]

go to auditions/open calls. i've been to a couple in la, beside the waiting time, easy money.

[16steps]

i hooked up with a too short/fergie video hoe

[RandR]

my HR consultant's house is the one in "red dragon". his son is the kid that is in the birthday videos and shit. Brett Rattner directed that joint, saw that his kid loved rush hour and rush hour 2, and then later invited the family onto the set of rush hour 3(I think the kid was an extra on that).

My HR director is the hot MILF in the grocery scene of Ladder 49. She's in the background looking fly. Half Italian/half Irish? Sign me the fuck up.

I might be in some red cross training videos after having dinner accidently with the director/producers and the casting lady for "the wire" last week. I'm also in some Korean news thing as an American asian guy in a lab coat using a micro-pipette.

[tac0tron]

i understand extras are made to repeat the word "banana" to simulate ambient chatter in, say, restaurant scenes

hope that helps

I heard it was "watermelon"

[AstroWolf]

i dated a girl whose dance instructor was the zombie with the flower in her hat in the thriller video

Wow, you are more or less made for life if you can say that, no matter how lame you are, or long ago it was, its a close.

as far as backround chatter go's its a no go. you dont make ANY noise... or nod a lot and shit... they just want moving mouths, but no sound... not on any set i was ever on, and before my life took a huge U turn to what it is now, i lived film.

worst part of most extras is they WANT to be noticed, they think they are actors, when really its just a lame job... long hours, low pay. i know this one guy who is in EVERYTHING from 98-2000... like a joke kinda how much he was in...

also if you look close, in a lot of nyc film there is a guy called RADIO MAN, he is a bum who gos to the city film counsels office and asks where shits being shot so he can eat free, over the years he has become a mascot for NYC directors, he is snuck in all the time, just as he is, a old bum with a bike and a radio around his neck, like a big radio, haha. he was ok cool.

[lak]

I was in this art film with shenae grimes recently, played one of the "cool kids" who was mean to her or something.

But man, fuck is that chick a diva. Yelling at hair and makeup all night, complaining about the outfits she had to wear, taking 6 takes to make a 'scared face'.

Being an extra is not fun, except for the free food and in this case hot model chicks who were in the film.

[lak]

she's pretty tiny so i guess she's got that ragdoll kinda thing going if you know what i mean.

edit: doing extra work this week for nobu from food jammers (canada represent). maybe sufu north will see me on tv.

[haptronic]

where i come from extras have an agent that specializes in casting and finding extras. AstroWolf is right about it being long hours low pay and you are the lowest of the low on the set, if you are fed at all by craft services, you have to wait in line till after the cast and then the crew.

your call is early and in lots of cases you have to supply your own outfits.

as far as extras getting noticed, there are extras and then featured extras, if you are featured in a scene or on a day you will get paid more, also as far as getting lines goes they may give you a few words and you will still be classed as a featured extra/on that pay rate.

i had a day role on a nighttime soap with 4 days of shooting, there was a situation where there was a featured extra who they made up a line for, and my work for that day was just to be in the scene [i.e i had no lines in the script], i was paid 4 times as much as him for that day and 6 to 8 times as much as the other extras standing around, that is normal even when the guest actor is working for scale.

[Guest natalia]

I watch a movie earlier called telephone booth and it was full of that thrill and fun actually.

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