Party Scene
By Tony Vallone story, screenplay, associate producer
Last night we filmed our first major party scene. We had to throw a big fake party with 100 extras. It was pretty insane.
First of all, the extras were all our friends and family from the Bay Area. They weren't proper extras that are paid and ordered around. This meant that the extras were all doing us a gigantic favor. We had to be as considerate as we could without compromising too much of the film. This started with a 2 am dismissal for the extras even though we needed to film the party scene until 5:30 am to make the night. We rearranged our shot list to put all the wide shots with all the people in the beginning and all the close ups with minimal background activity at the end.
At about midnight people started to get very anxious. I thought it would be exciting because making films is exciting to me, but I guess not everyone thinks like me. Not yet anyways. The reality of a film set is that there is a lot of just standing around. It takes 8 hours to film a 5 minute scene so you can imagine how much time the extras are just doing nothing. Some people I've talked mention how glamorous it must be to be making a film but they really have no clue what's up.
When the extras are your friends it is especially difficult to manage everything. Anyone that has done extra work will tell you that extras are usually bitched around set all day - but our extras bitched to us more than anything. Some of my best friends from high school were there and I couldn't treat them all like regular background people. If any of you are reading this I am sorry I couldn't be more available to help you guys out.
More pcitures comming soon.
Last night we filmed our first major party scene. We had to throw a big fake party with 100 extras. It was pretty insane.
First of all, the extras were all our friends and family from the Bay Area. They weren't proper extras that are paid and ordered around. This meant that the extras were all doing us a gigantic favor. We had to be as considerate as we could without compromising too much of the film. This started with a 2 am dismissal for the extras even though we needed to film the party scene until 5:30 am to make the night. We rearranged our shot list to put all the wide shots with all the people in the beginning and all the close ups with minimal background activity at the end.
At about midnight people started to get very anxious. I thought it would be exciting because making films is exciting to me, but I guess not everyone thinks like me. Not yet anyways. The reality of a film set is that there is a lot of just standing around. It takes 8 hours to film a 5 minute scene so you can imagine how much time the extras are just doing nothing. Some people I've talked mention how glamorous it must be to be making a film but they really have no clue what's up.
When the extras are your friends it is especially difficult to manage everything. Anyone that has done extra work will tell you that extras are usually bitched around set all day - but our extras bitched to us more than anything. Some of my best friends from high school were there and I couldn't treat them all like regular background people. If any of you are reading this I am sorry I couldn't be more available to help you guys out.
More pcitures comming soon.
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