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Star Wars Extras Needed

Posted by timothy on from the tell-them-slashdot-sent-you dept.

lyonsden writes "Ever want to be in a Star Wars movie? Live in Australia? Check out this page at the Maura Fay Group Casting web site. Especially the Star Wars part towards the bottom. Any takers?"

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  1. Re:Oops by Zeebs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, it's all shot out of sequence obviously. So the little that the extras do see, will be very little sence to them. I'd also be willing to wager that any scenes critical to the plot of the movie aren't going to take place in front of large ammounts of by-standers, and if they do, chances are the by-standers are just going to be in a matte shot then cloned in anyhow. Chances are they wouldn't pick anything juicy up at all, save MABEY the third directors assistant's gophers first name. :D

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  2. Maura Fay Casting by Mattygfunk1 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Maura Fay Casting are top notch casting recruiters. A relitive of mine went in fresh out of college and scored some minor roles very quickly. They worked with her as she built up to doing more major jobs.

    Have a go. You might just pull a role that will set you up long term.

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  3. Well..being an extra is not that fantastic guys... by madmarcel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was an extra in a locally made movie (in NZ, not in Ozzie ;) and...eh...being an extra seemed to mostly consist of ....WAITING. waiting waiting waiting....

    It goes like this:

    - Meeting the director - cool
    - Meeting the lead character (and assorted females) - neato
    - Having to sign a non-disclosure agreement - worrying
    - Wearing a nifty custome - very cool
    - Having make up applied by people from LOTR - very cool
    - Waiting for 5->6 hours in the middle of the freezing cold night (in some poky shed) - not so ehhh....cool.
    - Finally filming some scenes (outside) - which takes half an hour (if that) and by God it's gotten colder outside - most excellent.

    (Although it was so cold that my big red nose was probably clearly shining through the layers of zombie make-up ;^) oops...wasn't supposed to tell you that..

    Would you willing to go through all that to be an extra in a star wars movie?
    YES? (this is /. after all ;)

    Ok, then follow the above procedure, but imagine yourself wearing (for example) a wookie-outfit or a storm-trooper outfit...and consider what the average day-time temperatures in Ozzie are like...

    Good luck matey :)