{"id":5803,"date":"2007-12-16T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/5803\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T20:35:11","slug":"extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5803","title":{"rendered":"Extras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wrapped on Principal Photography today for &#8220;The Artist.&#8221;  I think it&#8217;s going to cut well.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first film I&#8217;ve directed that I&#8217;m not editing.  It&#8217;s sort of weird giving up that control&#8230; I&#8217;ll still be monitoring Jennifer, our editor, but she is the editor.   Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>This is also the first film I&#8217;ve directed where I had an actual camera operator and a DP.  I definitely need a camera operator.  A DP, not necessarily.  I usually have a definite visual look I want for every shot.<\/p>\n<p>Extras!  What a pain in the ass.  I definitely need a PA or AD or something to wrangle extras.  Just figuring out who you are going to use for which shots, who would create a continuity error, etc, is very taxing.<\/p>\n<p>I came up with a system that I will definitely use next time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all the extras must show up at the beginning, at the same time<\/li>\n<li>only extras who have signed a release may enter the set<\/li>\n<li>You leave, you can&#8217;t come back!<\/li>\n<li>on arrival, every extra is given a ticket with a number.\n<li>The lower the number, the more desireable the extra&#8217;s presence in a shot is (better looking, better fits the setting).<\/lI>\n<li>More appropriate extras will be in more prominent positions in shots<\/li>\n<li>that means that latecomers get lower priority&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>the shot list has these numbers on it, decided in preproduction.<\/li>\n<li>So when a shot comes up, the AD just reads the numbers of the extras that will be in the shot.  Like &#8220;Shot 6.2, extras 12, 18, 47, and 54 please get on set.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrapped on Principal Photography today for &#8220;The Artist.&#8221; I think it&#8217;s going to cut well. This is the first film I&#8217;ve directed that I&#8217;m not editing. It&#8217;s sort of weird giving up that control&#8230; I&#8217;ll still be monitoring Jennifer, our editor, but she is the editor. Yikes! This is also the first film I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}