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I was in the background of some films if that counts. really just one because the other the stunt messed up and they did not use the footage.
I'd like trying my hand as an extra sometime, just for fun. How is it ?
hey 3D animator here. I did some documentaries and short films. Actually a bit starved for work so if you need something rigged, animated.... hit me up 😁
Do you guys also love watching movies? I ask this question because I've played football with players who enjoy playing the sport but have zero interest in watching it. I wonder if it could be the same for some people working in the film industry, where they love the process of creation but don't have as much interest in watching as an audience member.
I am in film/television (non-streaming), but I'm in the adult/XXX realm. And to be 100% clear, I have nothing to do with the performers. I could not be further from the "action". I'm a "grunt" way, way after the fact.
I'm willing to answer questions, but keep them quasi-civil, ya know?
Cool ! so all of the bells, none of the smells ?
Interesting, could you elaborate?
Editing? In a larger or smaller company?
Not anymore, but I've spent my fair share of Fraturdays wondering when the hell things would wrap.
This may not be the place to ask, but how did you even break into the industry?
I did a decade in local TV, then worked a few years at a company that made production equipment that I’d guess anyone who works around camera, DIT, director, producer, etc. would know. Relatively small company so I don’t want to risk identifying myself by naming it. I’m out entirely now, though. Not even running cameras for pledge drives at the local PBS station because they stopped producing them that way.
Trying to! Right now I'm still just busy with working corporate stuff/real estate to earn my living and working on short films and a little bit of studio work on the side (DoP). This year is the year I update all my stuff and give it a good push though, starting to have enough experience, the tricky thing is I live in a country with a small-ish industry and I also don't speak the language at native level to work in the local TV, but I can drive/fly to other nearby countries where I do and we might move there eventually as well.
Hell yeah dude that's awesome. Europe? They have a lot of productions shooting over there right now.
Yeah, Europe, I'm based in the Netherlands but I'm French and most of my short film stuff happens there and my paid stuff here. Probably gonna try hitting UK productions as well since I know they shoot in the continent a lot and like to have EU citizens for that.
What about you?
Hell yeah dude that's awesome.
I'm in the stunts/action world, so everything from action acting (actors who can do their own stunts) to action design, some action camera operating (not union for this but learning), limited stunt rigging, etc.
It's pretty fun! I also do some writing/development work on the side still as I moved out to LA for that and still have people hit me up to do rewrites or build decks and stuff.
Ah fun! My latest and greatest short the director is also coming from the stunt world and debuting as director, y'all are a fun crowd ;) I definitely wouldn't mind doing more action stuff. I love working with the French but it's all slow drama 🤣