Extra Extra!

I got to be an extra in a Boothby movie today. I don't know how many other people would consider it fun to give up 2.5-ish hours of their Sunday to wear funky tweedy jackets and get coal dust smudged on their face, and then walk around in circles in the basement and up and down the stairs of the Old Armory, in cold cold temperatures (It was colder inside than outside!), but I had a good time!

It was neat to see the basement and the upstairs corners of the Armory, and have them calling "Action" and "Cut" and marking down time codes and stuff. Just a small flavor of what it might be like to do it for a full thing. Whoa. A lot of work. But it will be really cool to see how it looks when it's all put together.

Professor K writes a mini explanation of the thing at the end of his blog post here. (He was also taking production photos, so I'm curious to see how those turn out. I have a feeling I'll be in more of the photos than the movie, heh.) I honestly don't know that much about it, since we were really coming in for make-up type shots that they'd missed previously, most people already knew what was going on, and we really weren't required to show any sort of emotion that would require us knowing what was going on. It was stuff like, "You've just been working in the boiler rooms and you hear the break whistle and you just want to go get food, or go home" or something like that. And either "walk faster" or "walk slower". heh.

Anyhoo, I've always wanted to be in one of the movies that these local guys have done, so there was a little wish come true. Yeah, I had a good time. :-)