I know there are a bunch of people here who are film majors or aspiring film makers and I got curious to know if any of you have ever worked on a larger scale film, tv show or commercial whether it be as an actor, director of gaffer. Aside from shorts you do with your friends....
i've been an extra many times
...don't know if that counts
I was a camera PA on this movie called The Riff. It ended up going straight to video, and I never actually saw it. But I learned quite a bit while working on it...
I've been in a couple of music videos. On camera in one, and helped out on the crew in a couple of others (mostly hanging out by the craft service table there).
It was a whole lot of fun. I actually took a pie in the face in this one video. I should try to dig it up and put it online. It was great. I got dressed up in this cowboy outfit (which was about 3 sizes too small) and the bartender on this old tavern set hit me in the face with a pie in a big food fight scene.
Was an extra on The War. Was trying out to be one of the kids but didn't look 'southern' enough. That was a LONG time ago. A couple of my friends were in Forrest Gump- the kids on the bus and what not, since they filmed much of the film in Savannah and Beaufort- all near Hilton Head.
i was a PA for an IGA commercial once. it was being shot at night and i was working at famous players during the day. what a tough 3 days that was.
Quote from: mogwaiI was an extra in PDL, I'm the guy who walks away and takes a sip of something groovy.
Nice backside you have.
I was camera op for a music video for a band in Florida. Not something that ever aired... just something for them to play at clubs and what not.
I also directed "The Shining", but I didn't like it so I put some other guy's name on it.
i interned for AMERICAN SPLENDOR.
I've been a p.a. for the last year or so. It's great to be there and see it all first hand, but as a p.a. your given the least amount of responsibility.... since our main job is crowd control we like to call ourselves "walking traffic cones"...........oh yeah, I also wrote American Beauty. :wink:
I was location scouting P.A./Driver for "Serving Sara." It did absolutely nothing for my career. However, one of the producer's left his contact list in the van so I got Oliver Stone's phone number. I never called because I was afraid he might try to kill me.
one of my mates was an extra in lord of the rings and a bunch of xena stuff too- my claim to fame.
Sweet avatar, jmj.
Season 3 starts Sunday!
Quote from: XixaxSweet avatar, jmj.
Thanks. I mean seriously...who can resist the image of lipstick on a dead women's lips. Plus Alan Ball is fucking Genius.
Nice avatar yourself. Isn't there going to be a new Donnie Darko DVD release soon? I thought I heard something about it on NPR. What a great movie...I hope they have some better extra's than the first release.
I've been trying to land P.A. jobs and failing miserably since I got out of college. Seattle is the armpit of the film industry. My only consolation is that my classmates who went down to LA aren't doing that much better. My best friend was a camera assistant on a yet-to-be-released Christian horror film called "The Hangman's Curse", starring David Keith, Mel Harris, and the fat kid from "Magnolia". Apparently David Keith is a prima donna. And the film was directed, as all good Christian horror films are, by a guy who made his name directing "Red Shoe Diaries" episodes.
I'm going to be a PA on the Daniel Day Lewis movie this July. I forget the name, his wife is directing it. It's mentioned in the Women Directors thread. It shoots in Maine, I've heard only a few miles away from the Aviator shoot. SWEET!
Quote from: bonanzatazIt shoots in Maine
Aw...Stephen King land...
Quote from: polkabluesthe fat kid from "Magnolia".
I wanna know what Julia's up to, she's good.
I was an accidental extra in Kingpin, which is to say that I'm a blotch of light in the background. I was a boy scout selling Christmas trees in Reno, NV when the car went by.
picolas is running away from Henry Winkler. that's all he's going to say.
Quote from: picolaspicolas is running away from Henry Winkler. that's all he's going to say.
i've seen the tape of this, it's hysterical
Quote from: NewtronQuote from: polkabluesthe fat kid from "Magnolia".
I wanna know what Julia's up to, she's good.
Who's the women that accompany's Stanley and the kids and assists them? The one that Stanley talks about the weather with. Is she in any other cool movies? She's seems like a good actress.
Quote from: ebeaman69Who's the women that accompany's Stanley and the kids and assists them? The one that Stanley talks about the weather with. Is she in any other cool movies? She's seems like a good actress.
Felicity Huffman, she's married to William H. Macy.
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Huffman,+Felicity
Quote from: sphinxQuote from: picolaspicolas is running away from Henry Winkler. that's all he's going to say.
i've seen the tape of this, it's hysterical
Does it look anything like this?
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i met quentin tarantino once. he's a douchebag in real life.
Quote from: snaporazi met quentin tarantino once. he's a douchebag in real life.
How so?
Quote from: Duck SauceQuote from: snaporazi met quentin tarantino once. he's a douchebag in real life.
How so?
i went to his "qt5" festival in austin a couple years ago.
i wasn't like "oh, mr. tarantino! i've seen all your movies! can i have your autograph?!". i didn't even go up to him. but during an intermission, i was getting some coffee and so was he, so i simply asked "when do you think your next movie [referring to
kill bill] will be coming out?" and he gives me this single-sentence response "i haven't even finished writing it yet" in the most rude and asshole-ish tone...as if it was common knowledge or something.
he seemed to only be cool if you were totally kissing his ass. like between every movie, he'd be speaking to a bunch of brown-nosers standing in a half circle aound him just
listening to him talk. no discussions, just them listening to him talk about himself.
i did, however, meet harry knowles. nice, nice guy. i just wanted his picture and nothing else, and i took it, and then he started talking to me. you know, just being a friendly joe.
Quote from: snaporazi met quentin tarantino once. he's a douchebag in real life.
I've heard his set's are the most comfortable to work on. He takes the grips out for beers after work.
Quote from: snaporazQuote from: Duck SauceQuote from: snaporazi met quentin tarantino once. he's a douchebag in real life.
How so?
i went to his "qt5" festival in austin a couple years ago.
i wasn't like "oh, mr. tarantino! i've seen all your movies! can i have your autograph?!". i didn't even go up to him. but during an intermission, i was getting some coffee and so was he, so i simply asked "when do you think your next movie [referring to kill bill] will be coming out?" and he gives me this single-sentence response "i haven't even finished writing it yet" in the most rude and asshole-ish tone...as if it was common knowledge or something.
he seemed to only be cool if you were totally kissing his ass. like between every movie, he'd be speaking to a bunch of brown-nosers standing in a half circle aound him just listening to him talk. no discussions, just them listening to him talk about himself.
i did, however, meet harry knowles. nice, nice guy. i just wanted his picture and nothing else, and i took it, and then he started talking to me. you know, just being a friendly joe.
Lol, I totally wouldn't even be able to help but suck up to him if I met him...being the geek that I am.
Quote from: snaporazi wasn't like "oh, mr. tarantino! i've seen all your movies! can i have your autograph?!". i didn't even go up to him. but during an intermission, i was getting some coffee and so was he, so i simply asked "when do you think your next movie [referring to kill bill] will be coming out?" and he gives me this single-sentence response "i haven't even finished writing it yet" in the most rude and asshole-ish tone...as if it was common knowledge or something.
I still haven't been to one of those (living in Austin, I would love to though), but I hear he always preludes it with "this is like my church, okay?" basically saying that he doesn't want to sign autographs or talk about what he's doing next or any interviews, he's just there to watch some films.
Not saying you fucked up or anything, just saying that I've heard that's his attitude toward the event.
yknow, sometimes people are just having a bad day. everyones been rude once in a while for whatever reason. doesnt mean youre a douchebag.
Quote from: cecil b. dementedyknow, sometimes people are just having a bad day. everyones been rude once in a while for whatever reason. doesnt mean youre a douchebag.
that might be understandable if he hadn't been having such a great time talking about himself to those fan boys just a few minutes before and after.
Yeah, but listen to QT in any interview and he has a "rude assholish tone", that's the way he talks. Always. And he can be an asshole at times, but mostly - in my contact with him, he has always been very helpful, and pleasant and he is always on overdrive, so it's like "put the coffee down" man, relax.
And maybe your question of "So when's your next movie coming out" was the 800th time he heard that one today, and he was tired of being "hounded" about not following up Jackie Brown for like a hundred years...
I'm not saying, I'm just saying... People are people, catch them at any given moment and they're an asshole or their a genius or their your grandmother...
Saw William H Macy last night at Cinequest and he was the most gracious, warmest guy - is he like that ever day. No, he admitted it. When he's working on a film and it's a twelve hour day and things aren't going well, and he didn;t learn his lines and they hit hour thirteen he starts getting gruff. Well, to watch him last night I'd say that's impossible, but I know better.
QT maybe was rude, maybe didn;t want to talk to you. Who knows, but to characterize him as a douchebag from one sentance. Point that finger back at yourself. You need to know him better before callign him a douchebag. :wink:
Quote from: michael alessandroQT maybe was rude, maybe didn;t want to talk to you. Who knows, but to characterize him as a douchebag from one sentance. Point that finger back at yourself. You need to know him better before callign him a douchebag. :wink:
me calling him a douchebag wasn't only based on his rudeness towards me. seeing him behave the way he did on stage and with the "fans", it was very unpleasant to see guy be so full of himself. maybe he has heard the "when's your next movie out?" question a billion times, but i'm sure he's heard "pulp fiction rocked" a billion more. that didn't stop him from winking & smiling to the other crowd.
granted, i don't know him personally, but that can't completely invalidate my judgements of him after being around him for two whole days.
anways, yeah, he may be a cool guy, he may be an asshole...it just seemed to me that if you talked to him at a down-to-earth level instead of the mr. celebrity level, he'd shit on you.
met QT at a screening a while back for a movie called Shoeshine Boys I think. anyway, Nicest Guy Ever.
He talked with anyone who wanted to talk afterward, shook hands, said the movie we watched inspired him to go home and do more writing.
My friends and I shook his hand, said we couldn't wait for his next movie to which he replied "thanks, I should have somethin' for you fellas real soon." he said he was writing something big and was out on the prowl for inspiration. the screening we were at was for some indy movie, so I thought that was cool.
also, he was wearing a flight jacket, board shorts and no socks. looked like he literally ran out for some coffee and inspiration and then he was off back to the writing.
that was really cool.
Quote from: ebeamanQuote from: NewtronQuote from: polkabluesthe fat kid from "Magnolia".
I wanna know what Julia's up to, she's good.
Who's the women that accompany's Stanley and the kids and assists them? The one that Stanley talks about the weather with. Is she in any other cool movies? She's seems like a good actress.
Felicitty Huffman is a terrific actress. You can check out Out Of Order, a neat new show on Showtime that has a geeky, cinephile twist to it (in that there are constant references to film and that they're both screenwriters). She was also in Sports Night, one of the better shows of the last five years...
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Quote from: Duck SauceI know there are a bunch of people here who are film majors or aspiring film makers and I got curious to know if any of you have ever worked on a larger scale film, tv show or commercial whether it be as an actor, director of gaffer. Aside from shorts you do with your friends....
i'm an art department slut in the commercial industry. started out as an art p.a. in Feb of 2002, and now work as a set dresser. it's been fun. only 'famous' people i've worked with (but not really had a conversation with) were the late Conrad Hall (Miller Lite), Robert Richardson (PNC Bank), Martin Scorsese (AmEx), Cameron Crowe (Gap), and Rob Reiner (some random PSA).
I was a still photographer on some cheezy made for TV movie (Can't remember the name, but it was some Hallmark thing about hockey) ....overall the entire production was pretty lame, but it was good to see how the technical side of things worked...
I also kinda weaseled my way onto the set of a Powerade Commercial...(they used to show it in theaters, where this person drinks a bunch of Powerade and can all of a sudden jump over a rising bridge)....this was actually really neat, cause they had ropes, helicopters, huge crew....only just chatted with PA's though
Can you guys post more stories like the QT ones please?
I have none of my own.