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Late last week I was sent to Encino to the set of the TV pilot
Miss Guided.
There I would be "interviewed" for a featured Math Teacher role and if chosen, I'd work that evening's night shoot.
There were six of us for the 4:30pm calltime.
Director
Todd Holland had us each act out the bit: being brusquely bullied by a gym teacher to make way for the lovely leading lady
Judy Greer.
Brought back outside by the AD, he asked if those of us Not Chosen could return on Monday, to which we all but one agreed (one already had a Monday booking).
The AD asked if anyone could still work That Night, and surprisingly, I was too slow to volunteer: an older fellow named Dick was chosen, and the rest of us had our Interview Vouchers signed and we were wrapped for the day.
Monday the 12th I caught the first Red and Blue Line trains, and got down to Polytech School by 5:50am for my 6am calltime (there are sometimes that not having a car can be tricky...).
We were told there would be three script-days shot.
The scenes in which I worked involved Camera-Back shots, meaning, if any of my face is seen at all it'll be surprising.
Surprisingly early (around 8:30am), a few of us were placed for the first scene shot.
One aspect involves inside the teachers' lounge, while outside a student driver car backs into a white VW Rabbit.
when the interior shot was complete, cameras were set to film the actual collision.
Throughout this, my business was to walk straight through the scene, long-ways.
That is, not just left to right or right to left, but straight away from the camera... a very long walk.
I actually pass between the back of the student car and the perpendicularly parked VW Rabbit.
I pass a pair of female teachers from the oncoming direction, and we greet each other (as we keep walking), the same as with a third female teacher who I pass (it is possible a bit of my face can be seen as I greet them as we pass each other).
We did this numerous times, both with the camera inside, and those outside.
I do not know How Late into the shot I may be... I could be out of frame before the scene's edit begins, despite the long walk involved.
The times they re-set/Back To One in which they declared "Going again: camera still rolling...!", I ran pellmell all the way back to my first position.
After a few of these, AD Lou gave me a quick thanks for my hustling (not all background would do such, and from what I could see, I was the only one running back... mostly as I had the farther to get back to my starting point).
Hey, this is my work; I'm in service to the project.
Throughout much of the day we shot a teachers' lounge scene in which Dick did the bullied Math Teacher bit.
As another math teacher, I was seated (full back to camera) at a table with a principal as another math teacher as very cute Greer comes in, interacts with him briefly, and she goes to the hyper gym teacher, but she moves on to Spanish Teacher Tim and tries to chat him up; they are met by the staggeringly attractive
Brook Burns,
to whom Tim clearly seems more attracted.
(Due to her hair style, I completely failed to recognize Brook Burns as being the main squeeze on the horrific-ending
Average Joe Hawaii,
in which she chose the Very Worst Guy she could have; thankfully karma worked out and the guy dumped her during their first official date after he was chosen as the "winner," an act the true choice would not have done...)
With a good solid 90 minutes of a second-meal meal penalty under our belts, we got wrapped at 8:06pm.
Dick had offered to drive me home, which he did.
While I'd given him my contact card, I realized too late I never got his last name, so I realized I'd have to see if any of his feature background got into the IMDB, considering he spends about ten minutes of the Sally Field's (critically slammed) feature
Beautiful
as her father or such (and... apparently not...).
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