Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
[Reebok Shoes] Commercial
August 21st, 2010 Saturday
Call time @ 8:30pm
Location: Langley
Set: Snowy White Christmas (outdoor with man-made snow)
I was very excited to get booked for this one, because it's a COMMERCIAL. I've never done commercial before and I've heard from other backgrounds that commercial pay is usually good. Regardless, I wanted to be on commercial anyhow. So there I was, for the Reebok shoes.
When I arrived, I was instantly amazed by the set that I saw -- very beautiful wooden house covered in both fake and real snow! The house was lit by orange light, its roof was covered by white blanket so from far, it looked like it was covered by snow. The crew was working hard making real snow. And I was working hard standing there and watching them :P
It was a long night of waiting, the backgrounds pretty much just waited for 7 hours and didn't get to go on set at all! Even though you could say it's great that you get paid without having to work, but it would be so cool to be on the snow set and be seen in the commercial if we were lucky. Anyhow, no complaints, the meal was great, the catering had the most wonderful, delicious dessert, and awesome people on set. I've taken many photos of the meal, extras holding tent and the set from far (as many passerby and crew people took photos so I thought I would too, though I shouldn't really have... I hope I don't fired by showing photos here...fingers crossed!) and a bunny!! I've got a little "Bunny Rescue" story to share with you all.
So as usually, we were waiting at our holding (see picture on the right) and I was just standing by the holding and watching the snow machine making real snow. There are about 2 cats from the neighbourhood that joined us for the night, they were friendly cats and would let us pet them. It was all peaceful for the first several hours. Suddenly, some human yelling broke the silence and some other weird animal sound, sounded like a guinea pig! It was a high pitch but uneasy sound. It got my attention right away because I realized right away that there was a little bunny was yelling for help. I saw a crew member was running after one of the neighbour cats! I started running after him though I wasn't sure if I should do this, I acted without thinking much. Anyway, what I saw was a cat chasing after a little bunny (seriously, it looked like a mouse!!) and there were 2 crew guys chasing after this cat, trying to stop the cat from eating the poor bunny. I caught up and asked what happened. They told me that it's a little bunny, must be a wild one and the cats were about to eat it. One of the cats had it in its mouth!
Omg! That is so scary. I saw the bunny in the cat's mouth. One of the crew guys hit the cat with a plastic box, tried to scare the cat so it would free that little poor thing. The cat freed the bunny and the bunny quickly went into the bushes. Before it ran into the bushes, I saw blood and wound on its back. Those friendly crew guys had to go back to work so they left. The cats wouldn't give up, they were still hunting around the bushes trying to find the bunny. I didn't know what to do to help so I just stood around the bushes and scared the cats away. Cats, or I should say animals, are smart. They knew that I was there to stop them so they just hid under a truck near the bushes and waited for me to leave. After awhile I thought the cats would give up and I didn't see or hear the bunny nearby, thought it must've gotten away without me noticing. So I walked back to my holding tent. Just not long after I left, the cats GOT the bunny, had it in the mouth. I saw and said "SHIT!" and started running after the cats. Cats saw me running toward them so they ran into someone's garden. I chased and decided to "break in" the garden and threw little rocks at the cats and finally the cat let go of the bunny. The bunny was so tiny! One of the backgrounds at the holding heard me saying "SHIT!" and followed me behind, she was brave and nice enough to grab the injured bunny for me. I didn't know if I should touch the bunny because it might have disease or what not. That poor bunny was hurt, blood on its back, part of the back had no fur, you could see bare skin. That little was terrified and shaking like crazy as it was in her hands.
YEAY! We did rescued the bunny. I was so happy.
The other backgrounds at the holding saw us coming back with a little creature in her hands and came up and asked what happened. I told them the story in short, said the bunny is now safe in her hands. They saw the bunny and went "awwwwww! look at this poor thing". We looked for a box to put the bunny in. We "stole" a cardboard box from the catering truck (because she wasn't around =P but we asked her when she showed up). The catering lady was so generous, she gave the bunny lettuce and a big carrot. But it was terrified, wouldn't move, wouldn't eat a thing.
I was thinking, so what's next? What should we do with the bunny? Should I take it home? Bring it to the vet?
Luckily, there was a nice lady from the traffic control team saw us with the bunny and heard about the story. She told us that she has a farm and has a lot of rescued animals. So we all thought it was the best idea for her to bring it home. What a relief! At least we know that the bunny could be in good hands, safe and sound. Everyone was happy :)
By the way, did I say that the meal was great and the dessert was SO GOOD. Too bad I don't have a photo of the dessert, but oh my, YUMMY!
What a night on set. The lady who rescued the bunny with me said we were meant to be there that night, even though we didn't get to go on set. Haha I agreed. We were both proud and glad we did something good for the day. So we got wrapped not long after this little animal rescue, I went home satisfied.
Call time @ 8:30pm
Location: Langley
Set: Snowy White Christmas (outdoor with man-made snow)
I was very excited to get booked for this one, because it's a COMMERCIAL. I've never done commercial before and I've heard from other backgrounds that commercial pay is usually good. Regardless, I wanted to be on commercial anyhow. So there I was, for the Reebok shoes.
When I arrived, I was instantly amazed by the set that I saw -- very beautiful wooden house covered in both fake and real snow! The house was lit by orange light, its roof was covered by white blanket so from far, it looked like it was covered by snow. The crew was working hard making real snow. And I was working hard standing there and watching them :P
It was a long night of waiting, the backgrounds pretty much just waited for 7 hours and didn't get to go on set at all! Even though you could say it's great that you get paid without having to work, but it would be so cool to be on the snow set and be seen in the commercial if we were lucky. Anyhow, no complaints, the meal was great, the catering had the most wonderful, delicious dessert, and awesome people on set. I've taken many photos of the meal, extras holding tent and the set from far (as many passerby and crew people took photos so I thought I would too, though I shouldn't really have... I hope I don't fired by showing photos here...fingers crossed!) and a bunny!! I've got a little "Bunny Rescue" story to share with you all.
So as usually, we were waiting at our holding (see picture on the right) and I was just standing by the holding and watching the snow machine making real snow. There are about 2 cats from the neighbourhood that joined us for the night, they were friendly cats and would let us pet them. It was all peaceful for the first several hours. Suddenly, some human yelling broke the silence and some other weird animal sound, sounded like a guinea pig! It was a high pitch but uneasy sound. It got my attention right away because I realized right away that there was a little bunny was yelling for help. I saw a crew member was running after one of the neighbour cats! I started running after him though I wasn't sure if I should do this, I acted without thinking much. Anyway, what I saw was a cat chasing after a little bunny (seriously, it looked like a mouse!!) and there were 2 crew guys chasing after this cat, trying to stop the cat from eating the poor bunny. I caught up and asked what happened. They told me that it's a little bunny, must be a wild one and the cats were about to eat it. One of the cats had it in its mouth!Omg! That is so scary. I saw the bunny in the cat's mouth. One of the crew guys hit the cat with a plastic box, tried to scare the cat so it would free that little poor thing. The cat freed the bunny and the bunny quickly went into the bushes. Before it ran into the bushes, I saw blood and wound on its back. Those friendly crew guys had to go back to work so they left. The cats wouldn't give up, they were still hunting around the bushes trying to find the bunny. I didn't know what to do to help so I just stood around the bushes and scared the cats away. Cats, or I should say animals, are smart. They knew that I was there to stop them so they just hid under a truck near the bushes and waited for me to leave. After awhile I thought the cats would give up and I didn't see or hear the bunny nearby, thought it must've gotten away without me noticing. So I walked back to my holding tent. Just not long after I left, the cats GOT the bunny, had it in the mouth. I saw and said "SHIT!" and started running after the cats. Cats saw me running toward them so they ran into someone's garden. I chased and decided to "break in" the garden and threw little rocks at the cats and finally the cat let go of the bunny. The bunny was so tiny! One of the backgrounds at the holding heard me saying "SHIT!" and followed me behind, she was brave and nice enough to grab the injured bunny for me. I didn't know if I should touch the bunny because it might have disease or what not. That poor bunny was hurt, blood on its back, part of the back had no fur, you could see bare skin. That little was terrified and shaking like crazy as it was in her hands.
YEAY! We did rescued the bunny. I was so happy.
The other backgrounds at the holding saw us coming back with a little creature in her hands and came up and asked what happened. I told them the story in short, said the bunny is now safe in her hands. They saw the bunny and went "awwwwww! look at this poor thing". We looked for a box to put the bunny in. We "stole" a cardboard box from the catering truck (because she wasn't around =P but we asked her when she showed up). The catering lady was so generous, she gave the bunny lettuce and a big carrot. But it was terrified, wouldn't move, wouldn't eat a thing.
I was thinking, so what's next? What should we do with the bunny? Should I take it home? Bring it to the vet?
Luckily, there was a nice lady from the traffic control team saw us with the bunny and heard about the story. She told us that she has a farm and has a lot of rescued animals. So we all thought it was the best idea for her to bring it home. What a relief! At least we know that the bunny could be in good hands, safe and sound. Everyone was happy :)
By the way, did I say that the meal was great and the dessert was SO GOOD. Too bad I don't have a photo of the dessert, but oh my, YUMMY!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
[Fringe] TV - Season 3 Episode 3
August 11th, 2010 Wednesday
Call time @ 7am
It was my first time going on a quite well-known TV show. I got a call from my agent asking if I could go for a 7am call time the next morning on such a short notice (replacement of another background). Of course I said yes since I had no plans for the next day.
I got an email with the details but I realized there's NO information on wardrobe!! I started to panic because it was very late to call my agent to ask. I did not know what to bring so I pretty much just packed all kinds of clothes I could possibly imagine to wear for "Fringe". Since I have never seen the show and had no idea what Fringe was about, I had to google the characters' clothes style. I packed business clothes, casual, dresses, and a few winter clothes as well. I had the biggest luggage of wardrobe for the first time.
The next morning, I got up and went to set in Burnaby near Vancouver. It was a VERY cool set! It was built for Watchmen. A New York street style of set. It's got stores, streets lights, traffic lights, buildings, and fake subway stairs. I was excited to be on set.
Then I got to the wrangler and found out that the person I was supposed to replace was there!! O.M.G I was like... SO does that mean I woke up so early and panicked all night for nothing? Of course, I explained why I was there because my agent called and said I was there to replace this girl. Apparently there was a miscommunication between the agency and that girl. Luckily the AD said I could stay! Thank god :D
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So the WATCHMEN set was really cool. All the fake streets, traffic lights, bakery, newspaper stand, shops and even underground subway (well, only the stairs and signs, no actual underground space). I was one of the many passerby, the scene was a car accident scene. We just had to stand on the streets and looked confused and wondered about the accident. There was an actress lying on the ground as she was hit by the bus. She's got fake blood on her, looked so real as she really got hit by the bus. Too bad I can't take photos of a set like this. It would be cool if I could show how real that set was. There were policemen walking around, cyclist, newspaper stand owner and the CAST. I saw Olivia Dunham who played Anna Torv! She is pretty in person and looked pretty young too.
a sneak peek of the Watermen set!
Call time @ 7am
It was my first time going on a quite well-known TV show. I got a call from my agent asking if I could go for a 7am call time the next morning on such a short notice (replacement of another background). Of course I said yes since I had no plans for the next day.
I got an email with the details but I realized there's NO information on wardrobe!! I started to panic because it was very late to call my agent to ask. I did not know what to bring so I pretty much just packed all kinds of clothes I could possibly imagine to wear for "Fringe". Since I have never seen the show and had no idea what Fringe was about, I had to google the characters' clothes style. I packed business clothes, casual, dresses, and a few winter clothes as well. I had the biggest luggage of wardrobe for the first time.
The next morning, I got up and went to set in Burnaby near Vancouver. It was a VERY cool set! It was built for Watchmen. A New York street style of set. It's got stores, streets lights, traffic lights, buildings, and fake subway stairs. I was excited to be on set.
Then I got to the wrangler and found out that the person I was supposed to replace was there!! O.M.G I was like... SO does that mean I woke up so early and panicked all night for nothing? Of course, I explained why I was there because my agent called and said I was there to replace this girl. Apparently there was a miscommunication between the agency and that girl. Luckily the AD said I could stay! Thank god :D
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So the WATCHMEN set was really cool. All the fake streets, traffic lights, bakery, newspaper stand, shops and even underground subway (well, only the stairs and signs, no actual underground space). I was one of the many passerby, the scene was a car accident scene. We just had to stand on the streets and looked confused and wondered about the accident. There was an actress lying on the ground as she was hit by the bus. She's got fake blood on her, looked so real as she really got hit by the bus. Too bad I can't take photos of a set like this. It would be cool if I could show how real that set was. There were policemen walking around, cyclist, newspaper stand owner and the CAST. I saw Olivia Dunham who played Anna Torv! She is pretty in person and looked pretty young too.
a sneak peek of the Watermen set!
Friday, August 20, 2010
[Taken From Me] Tiffany Rubin's Movie
August 20th, 2010 Thursday
Call time @ 9am
Call time @ 9am
We were filming around Surrey Central area, which was really cool because I spent my 4 years at SFU Surrey there. I didn't know much about the film and the storyline (as usual), I was basically just a passerby on streets outside "FBI building" and a passenger at "airport". Director was Gary Harvey.
The basic story is like this:
"Based on the true story of Tiffany Rubin (Henson) and the daring rescue of her six-year-old son, Kobe, after he was abducted by his biological father and taken from his home in Queens, New York
, all the way to Seoul, South Korea. With the help of Mark Miller (O'Quinn) and his charitable organization The American Association for Lost Children, Tiffany was able to travel to Korea to execute a high-stakes plan to bring her son home."
As the we were waiting for the set to be ready, I saw this guy sitting on this "airport waiting area chair" who looked SOOO familiar. O.M.G! It was LOCK from LOST!!! I can't say that he was my favourite character in LOST but OMG it's my favourite show and I was lucky to see one of the main characters in real life!! I was so excited like I was never before!! I usually don't recognize any characters. But this time I recognized this guy that is from my favourite TV show. I was SO happy! I could only stare at him since i was working as a background, so I couldn't ask to take photos and ask for autograph like other people did!! I was damn jealous!!! ARG!!
Anyway :( back to work.
It was great to go back to my lovely surrey campus!
It was funny how the SFU mezzanine became the "airport", where the "son" with his "mom" meet their "granny". They had this shot outside the open lab, beside Blenz coffee, in front of the escalator. I was standing just in front of it beside a couple "airport security guards" pretending I was waiting for someone to come out from the terminal. Pretty cool to actually see the scene right in front of me. I usually don't get to see much since I often get placed far away from the camera. I don't really mind because it's less stressful :P
"CUT!" called from the director, Lock was in front of me and a couple of security guards and said "well, looks like the people you're waiting to come aint coming at all" in Lock's tone and voice!! To me, he was just like Lock and sounded like Lock and reminds me the good times of LOST. Aww I miss LOST so much...
There was this female actress that's from another movie called "Benjamin Button". I didn't recognize her until someone pointed it out to me. She played Benjamin's mom in that movie. She looked pretty, friendly and quite fit, to.
It was a 6.5 hour day. Not too bad, I like to keep it short though some people like 12~16 hours days for the overtime/double time pay. But I think it's way too long. Anyway, another great film shoot experience this year. I have a night shoot tomorrow in Langley. Hopefully it will be a good one too!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
[The Troop] TV Series Season 2
August 5th, 2010 Thursday
Call time @ 9:30am
I'm back on set again after 5 months since last one "True Blue" in March. I sure was excited to go back to studio again. It's my first time going back to the same film and same set location. It was the studio in Maple Ridge where I was there for "The Troop" season 1. It feels quite different when you've been to the place before, feels more friendly in a way :P
So it was a long day, 10.75 hours since 9:30am. Fun part was that, I got to see some actions -- stunt!!! So the scene was like this, at a high school Valentine's dance, a monster shows up, attacks the students and throws them around at the dance. The students panic and run around. There were 4 stunt actors/actresses jumping and falling on floor and table. There was this "one shot and only" scene where a table full of desserts like cupcakes, donuts and cookies plus a huge bowl of punch, an actress falls on to the table with bunch of backgrounds running and panicking in the back. I was excited to see the falling action but then i was too focused on my "panicking" so I didn't get to see it. Oh and there was juice punch all over the floor afterwards, a guy slipped during the shot and some people were laughing because of it. Hopefully the camera didn't catch any "laughing" or "smiling faces, or else the shot would totally be ruined.
I met a cute high school girl on set. She's tall, pretty and friendly. I really wanted to ask her to be my photoshoot model but I was afraid that she might think I'm weird so I didn't. Good thing she added me on facebook, I shall find a chance to ask ;)
Anyway, feel great to be back on set. I wonder when will my next one be, I don't have much time left for it before I start full time work.
Call time @ 9:30am
I'm back on set again after 5 months since last one "True Blue" in March. I sure was excited to go back to studio again. It's my first time going back to the same film and same set location. It was the studio in Maple Ridge where I was there for "The Troop" season 1. It feels quite different when you've been to the place before, feels more friendly in a way :P
So it was a long day, 10.75 hours since 9:30am. Fun part was that, I got to see some actions -- stunt!!! So the scene was like this, at a high school Valentine's dance, a monster shows up, attacks the students and throws them around at the dance. The students panic and run around. There were 4 stunt actors/actresses jumping and falling on floor and table. There was this "one shot and only" scene where a table full of desserts like cupcakes, donuts and cookies plus a huge bowl of punch, an actress falls on to the table with bunch of backgrounds running and panicking in the back. I was excited to see the falling action but then i was too focused on my "panicking" so I didn't get to see it. Oh and there was juice punch all over the floor afterwards, a guy slipped during the shot and some people were laughing because of it. Hopefully the camera didn't catch any "laughing" or "smiling faces, or else the shot would totally be ruined.
I met a cute high school girl on set. She's tall, pretty and friendly. I really wanted to ask her to be my photoshoot model but I was afraid that she might think I'm weird so I didn't. Good thing she added me on facebook, I shall find a chance to ask ;)
Anyway, feel great to be back on set. I wonder when will my next one be, I don't have much time left for it before I start full time work.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
[True Blue] TV Show Pilot
March 20th, 2010 Saturday
Call time @ 6:15am
We were told to report to circus located at Andy Livingston Park at Keefer and Quebec. SO I had to drive due to early call time and no transportation at my departure time. I circled around the park and saw absolutely no crew, traliers, set etc. I thought I messed up the dates but no it was right. After 20 minutes, I saw 3 people standing at a corner by the park with their wardrobe (you know who are the background performers when you are one! yay! ) so I parked my car and went up to them. After a couple of questions and finding out that we're all from the same agency, we knew that the info we were give was incorrect. *phone rings* Great! Our agent found out the correct location was just 4 blocks away. I gave them a ride, no big deal. What a morning to start off a shoot. No good!
The set was at Victory Square on Hastings, right in front of VCC, where I come every morning! HA! So there was no breakfast provided as they've informed us already. We were on set from 7am'ish till 1pm! It was COLD out there. My toes were SO numb and my hands were freezing. It wasn't fun outside.
{Highlight of the day}
A guy started yelling right before we can "action", I thought it was the director who was yelling. But nope, it was a random guy on the street yelling at US, the whole crew! It was hilarious because that guy who I would think is perfectly normal, that in fact, was screaming and yelling "YOU GUYS ALWAYS MAKE MONEY! I DON'T MAKE MONEY, WHAT ABOUT ME? WHAT ABOUT ME? HUH? YOU GUYS JUST MAKE MONEY AND I DON'T, WHAT ABOUT ME!??!?!!" He kept going on and on to the point we were just like "... ok sir, are you done? you're pretty hilarious!" Then finally he started walking away, one of our police officers just went after himi on the cool police motocycle. Great! Someone was in trouble :P
Anyway, the 6:15am people were wrapper RIGHT BEFORE lunch. I think this production has a real tight budget. This is so far the ONLY shoot I've done that I didn't get to have any meals! How lovely, isn't "meals" just one of the best part for backgrounds to have on set? C'mon TRUE BLUE! I got sick right after I got home. Thanks!
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UPDATE
I'm not sure if this is the SAME TRUE BLUE! But yeah here you go!
Call time @ 6:15am
We were told to report to circus located at Andy Livingston Park at Keefer and Quebec. SO I had to drive due to early call time and no transportation at my departure time. I circled around the park and saw absolutely no crew, traliers, set etc. I thought I messed up the dates but no it was right. After 20 minutes, I saw 3 people standing at a corner by the park with their wardrobe (you know who are the background performers when you are one! yay! ) so I parked my car and went up to them. After a couple of questions and finding out that we're all from the same agency, we knew that the info we were give was incorrect. *phone rings* Great! Our agent found out the correct location was just 4 blocks away. I gave them a ride, no big deal. What a morning to start off a shoot. No good!
The set was at Victory Square on Hastings, right in front of VCC, where I come every morning! HA! So there was no breakfast provided as they've informed us already. We were on set from 7am'ish till 1pm! It was COLD out there. My toes were SO numb and my hands were freezing. It wasn't fun outside.
{Highlight of the day}
A guy started yelling right before we can "action", I thought it was the director who was yelling. But nope, it was a random guy on the street yelling at US, the whole crew! It was hilarious because that guy who I would think is perfectly normal, that in fact, was screaming and yelling "YOU GUYS ALWAYS MAKE MONEY! I DON'T MAKE MONEY, WHAT ABOUT ME? WHAT ABOUT ME? HUH? YOU GUYS JUST MAKE MONEY AND I DON'T, WHAT ABOUT ME!??!?!!" He kept going on and on to the point we were just like "... ok sir, are you done? you're pretty hilarious!" Then finally he started walking away, one of our police officers just went after himi on the cool police motocycle. Great! Someone was in trouble :P
Anyway, the 6:15am people were wrapper RIGHT BEFORE lunch. I think this production has a real tight budget. This is so far the ONLY shoot I've done that I didn't get to have any meals! How lovely, isn't "meals" just one of the best part for backgrounds to have on set? C'mon TRUE BLUE! I got sick right after I got home. Thanks!
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UPDATE
I'm not sure if this is the SAME TRUE BLUE! But yeah here you go!
Monday, January 18, 2010
[Day Dream Nation] Comedy TV Show
Cast:
Kat Dennings
It was at Wicklund Secondary School in Maple Ridge! More to it later!
Trailer is UP!! Yay!!
Kat Dennings
It was at Wicklund Secondary School in Maple Ridge! More to it later!
Trailer is UP!! Yay!!
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