[Taken From Me] Tiffany Rubin's Movie

August 20th, 2010 Thursday
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!

[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.

[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!

[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!!

[Best Player] Nickelodeon Movie @ PNE

TRAILER is UP!!! yay!!!

It was a different experience, indoor studio with stage set up! It was rainy and cold, extra holding was outdoor.

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Looks like I never got back to finish writing about this post. It's been more than a year since I was on this Best Player movie. It's time for me to finish something that I started!

I can't quite remember the exact details of what happened and what we did that day. Pretty much all I remember is, it was a cold rainy day at the PNE. Our extra holding tent was outside, some heaters but it was very wet. The rain was pouring and my shoes were all wet. Definitely wasn't the right day to be on set.

Anyhow, the indoor set was cool. They had this stage made up, supposedly to be a "video game contest" set. It had quite a futuristic style. The characters were good at their acting, It was one of the set experiences that I got to see the characters very closely. I was right behind Jenette McCurdy.

Before I go on with what I saw, I'll explain what the extras were doing for that scene. Basically, we were bunch of FANS of different contestants. We had to cheer ALL NIGHT with our hands in the air, jumping up and down, and doing the silent cheering!

Honestly, it was very tiring to do the fake cheering + jumping up and down all night long. Oh man... my arms got so sore after I got home...

Anyways, so back to Jenette McCurdy, she's such a sweetie. She seemed pretty talkative to me and she was very nice to the extras. One of the extras saw her heels were about to break (she could've had hurt herself pretty bad) and told her about it. She was very thankful and started chatting with us. Didn't have attitude as you'd normally expect from the cast...

So I don't remember much about this one. I don't have any photos to share with you so I'll just leave it as is.

[Vampire Diaries] I'M IN THE TRAILER FOR LIKE 1 SEC!!

You'll find me at 0:14!

[Vampire Diaries] Trailer is OUT!

I've been waiting to see it. Though I can't see myself walking through the scene, it's still cool to know what was behind the scenes :D Enjoy!