The Big Think

Had a good time today on the set of Friday Night Lights as an extra. We worked from 3:30 until 9:30 (actually on set from about 6-9). If you watch the show look for me in the background of both the breakfast and the dinner-time scene of episode 8. I’m wearing the brown fabric baseball cap in the b-fast scene and a generic blue t-shirt (no cap) in the night scene.
Fun! My friend Zach, who I worked with a few years ago on the 48 hour film festival, was pulling focus for camera C. I caught up with him briefly after we were done. He’s been working on the show for its whole run so far. Good on him.

I also observed that they run a very tight audio ship, which is typical (20 crew for the camera and visual side of things and three for the audio side). All the actors were wired (yikes!) and the boom supplemented for a couple of tight shots. Very efficient and fast moving set.

I hadn’t eaten much when I got to the extras holding area and I just missed the food being served, so I was pretty hungry. When we got to the diner they put our breakfasts in front of us and said “eat!” so I dug in gratefully. I was almost finished and a set decorator said “oh, you’re almost done. I’ll get you another one so we can do the scene again”. So I had to eat some more.

Thirty minutes later they picked me and one of the female extras to sit at the same table for the dinner/nighttime scene. This time they plopped down a couple of cheeseburgers and said “eat!”. By this time I was getting full, but I took a few bites. Same story. “Oh, your burger looks bad. Here’s another one. Eat!”.

No wonder everyone exercises so much in Hollywood. *burp*

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