We often take for granted all the people that fill the backgrounds and sets of every movie and television show.
Yet these people are carefully chosen and strategically placed by the director and casting people on the set of the movie or show.
Opportunities are abound for those willing to go and fill those busy background areas on movie and TV show sets, work for extras is available in most major cities and on a daily basis in busy places like New York and Los Angeles.
While this work offers little pay and sometimes long hours, the experience can be invaluable to anyone looking to make a start on the show business industry.
With so many of these jobs available one only has to know where to look and arrive on time and prepared, and the jobs abound.
First where to look: many times, the casting for large movies is handled by a smaller local company wherever the filming is taking place.
These smaller casting companies don't have huge budgets to advertise these types of jobs all over the place so the majority of the time these hobs are listed in smaller less expensive publications or free internet sites.
Craigslist is an excellent place to browse through the listings of available casting calls.
Once you have found an ad looking for extras and been requested to show up for filming there are really only two other things you need to know, arrive on time and prepared.
What does arrive on time mean? That means 10-20 minutes before you are scheduled to arrive.
Sometimes the best spots go to those whose arrived first and claimed them, don't get stuck with the junk spots, you need to show up early.
Be prepared, this simply means show up in the appropriate attire requested by the casting agent.
That means if filming is being done outside wear the proper shoes, and wear the appropriate clothing.
Having a professional outlook and carrying yourself like an experienced actor will help get you noticed and the opportunity to be offered future projects by the casting agent or even better; offered a speaking part by the director of the movie, hey everyone has to start somewhere.
Yet these people are carefully chosen and strategically placed by the director and casting people on the set of the movie or show.
Opportunities are abound for those willing to go and fill those busy background areas on movie and TV show sets, work for extras is available in most major cities and on a daily basis in busy places like New York and Los Angeles.
While this work offers little pay and sometimes long hours, the experience can be invaluable to anyone looking to make a start on the show business industry.
With so many of these jobs available one only has to know where to look and arrive on time and prepared, and the jobs abound.
First where to look: many times, the casting for large movies is handled by a smaller local company wherever the filming is taking place.
These smaller casting companies don't have huge budgets to advertise these types of jobs all over the place so the majority of the time these hobs are listed in smaller less expensive publications or free internet sites.
Craigslist is an excellent place to browse through the listings of available casting calls.
Once you have found an ad looking for extras and been requested to show up for filming there are really only two other things you need to know, arrive on time and prepared.
What does arrive on time mean? That means 10-20 minutes before you are scheduled to arrive.
Sometimes the best spots go to those whose arrived first and claimed them, don't get stuck with the junk spots, you need to show up early.
Be prepared, this simply means show up in the appropriate attire requested by the casting agent.
That means if filming is being done outside wear the proper shoes, and wear the appropriate clothing.
Having a professional outlook and carrying yourself like an experienced actor will help get you noticed and the opportunity to be offered future projects by the casting agent or even better; offered a speaking part by the director of the movie, hey everyone has to start somewhere.