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Friday, June 16, 2006

Master of Horror

Wow...quite the interesting first day of work! So I did my first day of work as an extra today. I showed up in the morning/afternoon (the ideal start time for me) and checked in to the 'extra holding tent'. The first thing they was go through the wardrobe that I brought to decide what I should wear. In the first scene I was a 'library patron'. They picked out my dress shirt and grey gap pants. Next up was 'hair and makeup'...ya...wtf...some chick did my makeup for me! Super weird experience. They then shipped me to the upstairs of the Vancouver Art Gallery (where the shoot was all taking place) to the library scene. My role in this scene was to walk towards the entrance of the libary carrying a butload of books and try to get in the way of the main actor in one of those akward-headfaking-can't-decide-which-way-to-pass moments and then exit the room. So i got some solid close up camera time in that shot. The lead actor in this show is the dude from Devil's Advocate who plays the pedophile that Keanu Reeves gets off in court in the beginning of the movie. He is a pretty weird guy. Anyways, we shot that scene like 8-10 times from numerous angles. Most of the time I spent chilling in a room upstairs with the other extras not in the scene at that exact moment. For the first half of the day I thought that I was on the set of the show '4400' because thats what our agency told us we were doing, but it turns out its some Horror series called Master of Horror. Everyone kept saying that there were supposed to be a bunch of sweet directors working on it. I have no idea though. I kept telling people it was the '4400'. Apparently the plotline of this episode is that the main guy has super hearing for some reason and he goes crazy because all the sounds being magnified drive him up the wall. By the end he gets so nuts that he cuts his own ears off and murders his wife...ya i dont know why he kills his wife.
Anyways the next scene we did was outside in the rain, except it wasn't raining. I changed wardrobe and arrived on the scene. They set up these water towers way up high on a crane and hooked them up to a fire hidrant to create a torrential downpoor. My role in this one was pretty boring. I just walked up and down this street from different spots about 200 times in the poring rain. Tony had his debue in this scene but he wasn't as fortunate as I was. I got to wear a raincoat and have an umbrella and was only in the rain for second at a time. Tony on the other hand had to walk his bike ( that he borrowed from brooks) up and down the street wearing only shorts and a shirt. He was the wettest guy on set by far.
Anyways i know i missing a ton of stuff but i'm fucking tired from standing in the rain for the past 3 hours. Overall it was a pretty surreal experience and i'm looking forward to doing it again.

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