Monday, June 30, 2008

Hella, Malibu and Melrose

Saturday night I hung out with a girl I met on set. We went to this party (ended being only 6 people... and only guys). All the people there were from Northern California and every other word out of their mouths was "hella". This is probably the worst word ever. It was super annoying to hear all night. I donno. There's just something about it that makes the person saying it just sounds like a total and complete tool.

And no body likes tools.

Nobody.

Sunday:
Went to a beach in Malibu with. It was really really pretty. We were watching some of the surfers which was fun, and then we decided to go into the ocean and whatnot. Got carried away by a few waves but it was all good.

Then we decided that we wanted sushi so we typed that into the Garmon, and it tooks us to this crazy place which we had to drive through Tapanga canyon to get to (which was a really long drive through a canyon and up a mountain area)... and then the place ended up being expensive so we didn't eat there and headed to a place down the street from me. But it was an adventure, and prompted some good conversations about Boy Meets World.

Oh Cory and Tapanga, what an amazing couple you were.

Monday:

Today Hillary and I went shopping on Melrose. It was fun for a while and there were some really cool shops, but after a while everything all kinda started to look the same. Tye dye is back in... who knew?

And now I am watching Mean Girls.

Tomorrow I am going to be a paid audience member for The Bachelorette. I guess it's going to be some sort of reunion show or something. That's the only reason I think that they need to have an audience. 

And yeah... a lot of audiences for TV shows are payed extras. Like Deal or No Deal. The audience for that is all people who are paid to be there. 

AND you know those commercials for movies where they show people who have just seen the movie saying "It was great! I loved it! I would go see it again!"
... paid actors.

Hollywood is so fake.

But I kinda love it.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Suit Life again

Wed, Thurs, and Fri I worked Suit Life again. 

Thursday was a super short day, only about 3 hours.

Friday we shot the rest of the show. There was a classroom scene that we did, I was next to Cole and behind Dylan so I will probably be in the shot, and then we shot the rest of the show in front of the studio audience. 

When the audience is there, there is alway a guy who kinda keeps them entertained in between shots. This week the guy who was entertaining them just went on pretty much a sexist rant. He was saying things like "all you young women in the audience better listen to your moms so that you learn how to cook and set a table". Then he brought out a football and started saying "Ok, well all the boys know what this is... but the girls don't" or "The boys can catch this.... but the girls can't".

He just went on and on, and it really really started to bother me. He was talking to a bunch of little kids... you just don't say stuff like that. The rest of the girls and I were really irked by him.

Anyhoo because next week is the 4th, Suit Life is taking a week off. This means I have to find my own stuff through central or Sande Alessi for next week.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

blah blah

Not much going on this week.

I couldn't find any work for Monday or Tuesday. The rest of the days this week I am working on The Suit Life again. 

...it kinda looks like they are gonna call us back every week for that show, which I am super ok with. I'm featured background on the show (so I am seen on camera a lot) and it pays a lot more then other jobs (not much over time... but I'm fine with that).

Other then that life is boring.

I want to see walle this weekend!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Lots-o-Stuff

Fence Walker:
This was Thursday night. I really didn't want to work this one because:
a. I wasn't feeling too hot
b. I knew it would be a cattle call and I wouldn't exactly be missed
c. I had a morning call the next day
d. The shoot was super far away

...so I called my calling service to see if I could get out of it, but they wouldn't let me cancel. 

It took me 2 hours in rush hour traffic to drive to the site. I ended up being half an hour late because of all of the traffic.

I got there.... waited around for an hour and a half, and then we finally started shooting.

We spent literally 10 hours shooting the SAME 60 seconds of dialouge. It was rediculous. I thought it was THE STUPIDEST thing ever and the biggest waist of time. 

The cast couldn't even get their lines right. I guess I could understand when it was early in the evening. But after 10 hours of saying THE SAME EXACT LINES some of them STILL couldn't get it right.

It was rediculous. 


So I got out of there at 5:00 in the morning (even though they probably had everything they needed by 1:00am). I drove to the disney studios and slept in my car for about 2 hours.  After that it just got too hot in the car for me to be in there anymore, so I drove to starbucks and got coffee, and got a redbull. 

Suit Life:

We actually shot the thing this time (Friday). We started with rehearsals, and then started shooting. 

Around 3:45 they brought in the live studio audience which was really fun. For the first few hours they seemed really enthusiastic and that was fun, but after a while I could tell they were kinda getting tired, and their energy dropped.

It was kinda cute though cause when the audience was there the twins would kinda show off and try to act super cool, like kids do when they wanna show off.

Really don't have much to say about the shoot other then that I learned from one of the regular extras that everyone was super glad that Ashley Tisdale left the show. I guess she was super spacey and hyper and would slow the shooting process down. Also they were saying that she was a bitch. 

I love learning gossip like that.

I am hoping that they call us back to do that show again because I had a lot of fun working on it. The cast and crew on that show were super nice, and also it's an AFTRA show so it is a higher pay.

Hollywood Improv:

Went to this last night with Hillary. It was really great to see her again.

The comics were hit or miss. Some were really great, but others were just terrible. Although that may have had to do with the fact that it was a very small crowd so there wasn't a lot of energy in the room. 

The headliner that night, I can't remember his name, started off pretty good... but towards the end he just made the show super super depressing. It was just really really awkward to watch.

But still... I had fun, and it was something that I hadn't done before.

Hillary and I also decided that we are going to go to Disney together. 

I am pumped. 


Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Suit Life

Worked "The Suit Life On Deck" today... which is a spin off of "The Suit Life with Zack and Cody".

It's the same show... minus Ashley Tisdale and now it takes place on a boat.

I donno. I didn't write it.

ANYHOO, we weren't actually shooting today. They called about 15 people in for an "interview", which turned out to be less of an interview and more of a "let's line everyone up and pick the ones who look the youngest". 

I was one of the 6 chosen to stay, which was pretty cool. I guess looking 14 pays off.

The actors ran through each of the scenes for the show... the background was in about 3 scenes. 

It was fun to be on a sound stage cause I hadn't worked on one before. The set for the show is really cute. We worked on the "Sky Deck" which was really really cute. It's like the deck of the boat, with a hot tub and lounge chairs. I didn't get to go into the hot tub though... which made me sad.

The crew was super nice and so was the cast. We got to talk to some of them a little which was pretty cool. 

There are about 1,000,000 little tweens who are probably super jealous of me right now.

We actually shoot the show on Friday. Some of it will be with a live studio audience, so I think that will be a lot of fun. I've heard that the audience goes crazy on these shows... so it will be interesting. 

I'm working some movie tomorrow... I am just hoping that it doesn't go too late. Otherwise I will be dead on Friday.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

1000 Words

Worked an Eddy Murphy film today called 1000 Words.

Arg.

It was a cattle call, meaning there was over 300 extras.

It was filmed at Santa Monica Pier which was nice cause it's 2 miles away from my house. But still it wasn't the best day ever.

My call was 7:30am, but they didn't even start bringing people over to set until 10:00am. Then they needed people to ride the roller coaster and the ferris wheel. I happily volunteered for that. It was actually pretty fun for a while. Just kinda chilled on the ferris wheel. But after about 3 spins on it they decided they didn't need us anymore so they told us to just go back to the holding area. 

...I sat in holding for the next 8 hours (minus the 30min they gave us for lunch... which was late and the food was questionable). We would MAYBE see a PA around every 2 hours and would ask them what to do/ if they needed us. (This wasn't all 300 people that were sitting around all day... maybe about 150. They obviously overbooked).

They didn't.
But we were still to wait there.

Then they decided that they needed us for a beach scene, and so the brought a bunch of us down to the beach (lucky me... I was one of the 70 people chosen while everyone else got to go home). 

Then they put me in a position on a play ground... but then didn't give me ay direction. So I did what any normal person would do.

I found the swing set and started to swing.

When it became obvious they weren't even going to see me in the shot (the camera was actually facing the opposite direction. It looked like they had no intention of filming facing me... mostly because the sun was starting to set and they wouldn't have time to switch positions) me and a few other decided it was time to go back to base camp and check out. 

And I did.

Arg. 

Long ass boring day.

Didn't even really see Eddy Murphy, maybe from far away. But I don't think that counts. Also we all got a big talk from the assistant directors not to approach him because yesterday there were some extras who were trying to pitch him scripts. Also there were a bunch of rumors floating around that he hates extras (understandable).


Tomorrow I am working The Suit Life of Zack and Cody because apparently I look like I am 14. I'm suppose to be one of their classmates. I know I look young... but I think 14 is pushing it.


Oh well... it's a job.


Saturday, June 14, 2008

Iowa

... so apparently my school is flooded.

fuck.

Friday, June 13, 2008

The Starter Wife and Californication

Starter Wife:

So I thought this was going to be a pretty cool shoot. Starter Wife is Debra Messing's new show and I think she's pretty funny. Also it was a later call (1:00pm) and the rumor was that we were going to be done by midnight.

Yeah... that was a lie.


It started out fine. We did a scene where we were watching a bad movie, and we moved through that pretty fast. Then there was an airport scene. I was a flight attendant. The costume was super cute. Very hot, with INCREDIBLY uncomfortable black pumps, but still cute.  I have no camera, so I have no pictures of it. Although I do walk right in front of the camera so I might be seen on the show.

They moved pretty fast though those scenes. Then we got ready for an "upscale shoe store" scene. We were suppose to be shoppers in the store while Debra Messing was trying on shoes or something like that. 

Anyhoo, they called in about 25 people to  be apart of this scene. We spent forever getting ready for it. There were a few girls who went through hair and make-up for it. I didn't have to, but wardrobe did make me wear 4 inch heals that were half a size too big on me and cut into my foot. Well after we all spend about an hour getting ready for this thing and get to set, they decide to only use 5 people. I did get to be one of the 5... but still. I felt bad for the other girls that they made wait around and whatnot.

Also once they started filming they couldn't decide what they wanted us to do. At one point they told us to be talking and picking up all these different shoes, then we weren't suppose to touch the shoes, then we weren't in the shot, then we got put back in the shot and had to play with the shoes again. It was just very unorganized, we did about a million takes of it (keep in mind again I am wearing the world most uncomfortable pair of shoes... and that my feet were already throbbing for the ones they made me wear in the airport scene). Also it got crazy hot in the set... and they wouldn't give us a break to go grab water. So half the time I felt like I was going to pass out.

Then we moved to an outdoor mall scene (I got to wear flats... thank God). It took them forever to film the scene... which just consisted of Debra and her 2 friends walking in a straight line in the mall. They must of spent 2 hours on it. And again they didn't know what to do with the extras. First they wanted us all walking, then no one could walk and we stood, then there were way too many people so they took some out, then they wanted to try it with all the people back in... it was just very frustrating. 

After that there was another scene they shot outdoors. At this point it was 1:00am... and freezing. They spent 2 hours shooting that one as well. Also, again, they had no idea what they wanted to do with the extras. 

It was just super frustrating. I didn't get home until 3:00am... and I had a 9:30am call time for the next day.

Californication:

Was a Catholic school girl again, and there were a lot of the same people who had been there the time before, which was nice. This, however, was a much smaller call. Also the day was much shorter, from 9:30am- 2:30ish. This was amazing cause currently I am running on about 4 hours of sleep.

I really like working this show. The crew is super friendly, and they know what they are doing/ what they want. I am thinking that they are just going to call back the same people to shoot all the school scenes for this show (cause they already have our sizes and also it's always the same school... so the same people are going to be there). So I am hoping to work this a few more times this summer.

That's about all I got.

I need a nap.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Entourage and True Blood

Entourage:

This shoot took place on Friday at the Beverly Hills Hilton. 

This shoot was so much fun to be on. The crew was so unbealivably nice to all of the extras and seemed really excited to do the scenes we were shooting (most production crews aren't too super nice to the extras so this was a really nice shoot to be on).

Spoiler:

The scene we shot took place at a sweet sixteen party. Vincent is singing "You're just too good to be true" to the birthday girl (who was super goth so it was pretty funny) for some extra cash, only in the middle of the song Vincent's brother (who is drunk) starts singing with him and then throws up on the birthday cake.

It was really really a fun scene to watch, which made the shoot even better. Also I had a super great position in the shot. I was standing right behind the birthday girl and her mom (Fran Drescher) so there is a very good chance that I will actually be seen on camera... which is pretty fucking baller. Also... I might just be crazy (which is a very strong possibility) but at some points during the song I think that Vincent was looking at me. And, not gonna lie, it kinda made me melt.

Only really bad things were that it got SUPER cold out... and I was wearing this strapless dress they gave me. So that wasn't very fun. Also the dress was too big in the bust so I had to constantly pull it up so the girls didn't pop out.

There was this one really creepy old dude who was bothering me. I was sitting at a table with a group of girls (all about 20) and this guy in his 50's comes and sits right next to us... which was kinda weird. He also kept following us around all night. Just kinda weird.

Also night calls are just tough in general. You see the sun set and rise... and by the end of the night you just want to sleep and not deal with people. Although there was this one lady who, in the line to return wardrobe, would not shut up. She just went on and on about she should have been treated better on set and how she thought she was entitled to more or whatever and I wanted to punch her in the face. Seriously... as an extra you are entitled to shit, and at 5:30am I didn't want to listen to her bitch. She also had an obnoxious voice.

Adrian Grenier was kinda flirting with a couple of the extras on set... which was fun. I actually saw him staring at me twice which kinda made my night. But right before meal break he motioned for this one extra to come with him... and then no one saw her until she and him returned to set together. She was fixing her hair (which looked kinda messy) and adjusting her dress. So guess what they had been up to! 

Overall though i did have a lot of fun on this shoot... and if I can I would work on this show again. Although I would bring a hoodie if it was another night call. It seriously got super super cold!

True Blood:

This was a 2 day shoot. Monday and Tuesday nights.

It took place at Warner Brothers studio. I could see the Warner Bros. water tower from our base camp for the shoot... which made me think of Animaniacs. This made me very very happy.

 I was a guest a party. We were all kinda suppose to be hicks... so they dressed me a white trash with this awkward halter top and horrible horrible shoes (I got to wear my own skirt though which was nice).

I really don't have much to say about this shoot. It was cold... but I had a hoodie this time so it wasn't too bad. Sine we were in the "woods" (the Warner Brothers lot woods at least) there were some bugs around... and our holding wasn't the nicest. 

It was just 2 very long nights. And as part of the set they had a table of crawfish (real ones not fake) so by the end of the shoot they stank!

Anna Paquin was on set... but she kinda kept to herself so I didn't really get to meet her or anything. Same with the rest of the cast. I did get to talk to the writer which was cool.

No vampires were involved in the scene so that was sad. All I did really was sit and then walk, sit and then walk. Not anything new or super exciting.

Tomorrow I am working on The Starter Wife.


Thursday, June 5, 2008

Californication and My Name is Earl

Californication:

Worked this on Tuesday. It was pretty cool cause this is actually one of my favorite shows and the 4 main actors on the show were on set that day. They kind of ignored the extras, but that is to be expected. I was playing a catholic school girl, which was hilarious! They gave us a uniform: grey skirt (which was actually pretty short), white polo, blue sweater, knee high socks. I loved it. I would have kept it if I could. I have decided that I need to go out and buy some knee high socks cause they are bad ass. One of the girls had a camera and took pictures. I gave her my email so she could send some photos. If I ever do get them sent to me I will post them here.
So what I was doing was walking around outside the catholic school. Nothing big. I didn't really get to pick up on any plot points to the show either. Which I was kinda sad about. But I'm pretty sure that I will be seen on camera which is good.
There were a lot of minors on the set (13 year olds) being extras too and I was paired up with one of them on set for a while (we were walking partners... oh joy of all joys). She actually was a really sweet girl... loved Hannah Montana a bit too much, but what you gonna do. It just reminded me of what I did last summer. And how I never ever want to be a camp councilor ever again. EVER. 
I will say that the Kraft service for that show was AMAZING. Krafty is going to make me gain so much weight this summer. But I don't care. It's amazing. 
I would love to do that show again. The crew was really nice and not gonna lie our AD was pretty damn good looking.
Not  bad way to earn $60.

My Name is Earl:

This shoot was pretty different for me then Californication was. First the call was HUGE. There were at least 100 extras.

The first thing they had us do was be an 80's crowed at a basketball game watching Jenna Elfman (she was guest staring on the show) got attacked by a badger. It was pretty good times. Then we were a crowed watching a cheerleading competition that Earl danced in which was absolutly hilarious to watch. I loved it!

Then me and 4 other girls got pulled to be stand-ins for some of the actresses on the show. Stand-in are used to stand in for the actors while the crew sets up the shot. It's so they can get the correct camera angle and figure out the correct lighting for the scene. The when they are ready to shoot they replace the stand-ins with the actual actors. 
The characters we were standing in for were "misfit cheerleaders". There was the pregnant cheerleader, a fat cheerleader, sassy cheerleader, and a cheerleader with headgear (this is the girl I stood in for). They had a few scenes with Earl and his brother, so when the cast was replacing us I kinda got to meet Jason Lee (Earl) and Ethan Suplee (Earl's brother) which was really cool. They both seemed like really funny really nice guys. Jason Lee was cracking jokes and goofing off all day, so that made the set a really fun one to work on. Also the scenes that we got to watch were hilarious. It's was really fun watching him work. 
It was a long ass day though. I was there from 6:30am to 9:15pm. But because I was a stand-in I did get a higher base pay, and I got at least 3 hours of double time. Which means that I should have a decent sized check coming my way.
Also I got 3 meals at Kraft which, again, were fantastic. 
I normally don't watch Earl... but I am going to keep an eye out for the cheerleader episode. I may or may not be seen on camera in this one (depends on the shots they use) but still it looked like a really funny episode and I want to see it. So if anyone who reads this (if anyone actually does read this) sees the Earl episode about cheerleading let me know!


Today I have a much needed day off, and tomorrow I a shooting Entourage. Then Monday and Tuesday I am working on a new Vampire show for HBO.

Monday, June 2, 2008

A much needed update

Sat:
I went to Six Flags with Lee. It was alright. It wasn't what I expected though. I think I had just heard too many great things about Magic Mountain so my expectations got built up too high, especially for X2.
We waited in line just under 3 hours to ride X2, which I had heard was the #1 steal coaster in the world. It was pretty good, but not waiting 3 hours in line good. Also the ride was under a minute long. Yes there was music in the ride and flames came up at one point, but still I was expecting the best thing ever, and it didn't deliver. It might have if it was just a little longer. 
Also when you are standing in line for 3 hours, you kinda run out of things to talk about. So there was a lot of awkward silence. Or I was doing that thing that I do to get rid of awkward silence, I started rambling on and on and on about the stupidest things and asking really dumb questions about stuff that I don't even really care about.
AND while in line they played this commercial for the ride over and over and over again and by the time we got up there I wanted to kill whoever the guy talking was. I still do want to kill him. I will hunt him down, don't think I won't!
We went on a few other rides too: Viper (not the same as the one in Chicago), Ninja (not nearly as cool as the name implies), Batman (same as the one in Chicago... only the "cave leading up to this one was freezing instead of hot and sticky. Not sure which I prefer), and Scream.
Scream I think would have been the best ride we went on all day, except for one thing. I put my bag in these locker things. When we got off the ride the lockers were broken and it wouldn't open up and let me get my stuff. We ended up waiting over 45 min for someone to come and punch 3 numbers in so I could get my stuff and leave.
Lee and I were pretty pissed off by the end of this, so that ruined Magic Mountain all the more.
... also the Riddler ride (which looked AMAZING) was broken, which was another thing that sucked.

Sun:
Went to Santa Monica Beach. Good times.

Mon:
Today was a pretty amazing day. I called into Central Casting and got booked for tomorrow for Californication (which is one of my favorite shows and I am SO excited), then I went to register with LA Uncut. They are another casting service and one of the shows they cast for that is currently in production is Greek (yet another one of my favorite shows). I haven't booked a job on Greek yet, but there is a very good chance that I will get work with them.
Also I just booked a job on Entourage for Friday.
It was a good productive day :)