Worked this on wed.
This was an.... interesting day.
I was originally booked as a receptionist and suppose to come to set at 5:30pm. At 10:50 am I get a call saying that my category was changed to "hospital visitor" and that I was now to come in at noon.
I was in bed when I got this call. It usually takes me a good hour to get ready and then I like to give myself another hour to drive wherever it is that I am going (traffic is a bitch). So this late of notice= not cool.
I found out later that the production was running behind that day and they moved the scene which I was booked on to another day (which I was not called back for... the production only likes to call SAG members back).
I got there... right at 12. Then wardrobe yelled at me for not having the correct cloths. The message I was given was "dress for fall" and when I got there she yelled at me for not dressing for "winter". So she game me the ugliest grey sweater known to man.
Oh well. It happens.
A little after that I was put on set to work. I saw Hugh Laurie which made me super happy, and then I also saw Kal Penn (Kumar from Harold and Kumar) so that was pretty cool. So I worked for about half an hour, then was told to go back to holding (which was part of the set... so that was actually pretty cool, hanging out in the House hospital :) ). Then I did nothing the rest of the day (which was about 6 hours).
I was also an incredibly stupid because I had forgot my book in my car. So I was stuck reading a Cosmo magazine for 6 hours. And let me tell you... a Cosmo may be fun for an hour to glance through... but reading it cover to cover? Not so much.
At lunch though I did get to walk around Fox Studio lot, and I found the lot store where I bought "The Seven Year Itch" for $7 (Employee price bitches!).
It wasn't the best set I have worked on, the production team seemed super serious, but it was fine. I would work it again if given the chance... however I would just remember to bring a book!
Monk:
Worked this yesterday at Paramount Studios.
This was suppose to take place in some little russian part of San Francisco, so wardrobe dressed me in this CRAZY european ugly outfit. Kinda hysterical.
What was kinda fun about this shoot was that I will be seen on camera. Maybe not super clearly... but I will be seen. At one point I walk in front of the camera before the actors arrive at their positions and I was used in every angle of the shot. So that is kinda cool.
The AD kept telling me that I did a good job and whatnot cause he was using me ALL DAY and I had to keep running (in heels) to get back to my first position from where I ended up so he appreciated that. At the end of day he told me that if he had had any extra SAG vouchers I would have gotten one... but he didn't. That was kinda upsetting. I still haven't gotten any! I was really hoping that by the end of the summer I would have at least 1. But I only have 3 weeks left here, and I am not sure if it is going to happen.
One thing that sucks about working at Paramount is that they often make you do a "walk away lunch". Which means that kraft doesn't provide lunch for you, and you have to go to the cafeteria ad buy your own lunch. Only we got released for lunch around 4, and the cafeteria really didn't have much as far as food goes (I ended up eating a pre-made sandwich that wasn't so good).
Then me and a few other extras went to explore the lot a bit. We found the studio store and I almost got this Audrey Hepburn movie box set... but the cashier wouldn't give me the employee discount and I didn't feel like spending the entire $50 bucks on it.
Couldn't book work for myself today, but Monday I a working on something called "Damn Love".
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