Actor Growth

So as planned I got to visit my old school at Capilano today to help out the students who were looking for an actor. One interesting bit was that when I attended the place was a college and now it has been upgraded to a university.

It was a pretty simple 3 minute shoot and it seemed ore like it was a practice film for the production students more so than trying to make a sophisticated film. There was one scene where my character was supposed to get tossed over a balcony. The whole scene was shot on a set that the student built.

At first hey didn’t really know how the person could toss me over this platform without me getting hurt and so they originally suggested that I simply sit on the edge of it and the guy would push me down. Again, they were worried about my safety which is always great to hear.

However, I thought that would be a bit corny and unrealistic and so fortunately with my martial arts background I was able to devise a simple stunt that would make it look like the guy really tossed me over. It was great that I knew how to fall without hurting myself and that is always an important factor when doing these types of acrobatic stunts. In the end, it seemed like it turned out well.

Wasn’t too bad overall as it was about a 2 and a half hour shoot. Had fun visiting the old school again.