Actor Growth

Today the scene was shot at a completely different location and there definitely wasn’t anything crazy like the other day. What was neat was the custom made set and it looks like there is going to be a lot of environmental CG effects in this movie similar to other films like the Da Vinci code.

Almost the entire set had blue backgrounds and my only assumption is that computer affects would be used to create the background and settings. One interesting thing of the day though was that there were two back performers who got into a verbal scuffle.

Get this, it was over a chair. From the looks of it, this lady took a guy’s chair so that she could put her things on it, or something like that. So, the guy tried to take it back and she freaked out. Then, someone else tried to tell her how he believed she was wrong and it sure got loud. Felt like some high school.

Back on Monday though and then I won’t be back on this particular film for awhile.

What a crazy day this was. Virtually everyone literally got soaked on set as there were things like generated tidal waves and people were in the water for hours. Kind of felt bad for the older people as they seemed to have got hit the worst in terms of being cold.

It was interesting to see the set that was created though. Was the first time I have seen such enormous set creations. Guess they weren’t kidding when they said that this is the highest budget movie to be filmed here in BC. Back again tomorrow.

So I got the set directions for Farewell Atlantis tomorrow which you can see here:

By the looks of it, the location is the Vancouver Film Studios which is a familiar area to me and so it shouldn’t be too bad. One thing though, I was reading some of the instructions and apparently people are going to get soaked in one of the scenes.

I definitely didn’t get any indications of that happening before agreeing to work on this film. From the breakdown though, they mentioned that they will be supplying all of the wardrobe. Wonder how many people are going to get sick though considering they have to do it for like three days at minimum?

Just a short while ago I discovered that some of my friends were going to try and create some mini film projects as they are trying to seriously jump into the world of filmmaking. I guess it should be interesting for me too as I will most likely participate in it as an actor.

One thing that I usually worry about in these situations is the professionalism. Not only are they kind of just starting out which I usually overlook, but sometimes it can turn into a chaos when everyone knows each other and therefore things are taken for granted.

To my knowledge, the intent was to release it using platforms like YouTube as it will be a good way for them to get immediate feedback about the work. I always wondered even from an actor point of view if it was wise to put your work on YouTube as people often associate that with amateurish work. Although they are just working on the script now, so it will probably be awhile.

Looks like I am going to spend the majority of my time this week working on that movie Farwell Atlantis. One thing about film is that you never know how long the day is going to be as it could be as simple as two hours or as crazy as sixteen hours a day.

I guess the good thing is that I will hopefully be able to meet a lot of new people as always. For sure though, I’m not going to be able to do some of my regular activities such as my martial arts training due to this. I have yet to contact my old instructor too whom you all may remember that I bumped into again at the reunion.

Maybe I’ll give him a call tomorrow and see if anything interesting will come to that such as whether or not I want to be submitted to those talent agencies again. I do only have until tomorrow to organize everything though…….

Recently I read an ad about a person that entered a film contest and was looking for actors to fill in roles that have yet to be determined due to the nature of the competition. I personally jumped at it when I first read the posting.

I usually like to participate in these types of projects as it is great to see the type of things a group of creative people can come up with and at the same type having to work and collaborate with others on such a short notice. Usually that could spell trouble if you are disorganized, but for the most part I have positive experiences and definitely meet great people and contacts along the way.

I have yet to participate in one of those 24 hour film festivals though. Although, technically the last film contest I was in sure seemed like one.