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I was never on a set but Kevin Bacon filmed a few scenes of Loverboy (05) in my old neighborhood

He seemed pretty nice, a no 'barking orders' type and Kira was very pretty in person
We were allowed to get fairly close to gawk lol

What surprised me was the amount of staging they did on the streets (adding old school trash cans, placing fake bushes, they even made us move our newer cars to park older cars in their places to fit the timeframe of the story) They also had several gigantic mirrors they used for the external day shots to light the actor's faces

Pretty cool stuff to see (but it did screw up the parking situation for a couple of days!)

Many years ago, I was in a short film a friend of mine made. It used to be on YouTube but not any more.

Yes.. Lots of standing around and waiting.. Many, many takes. A lot of technical problems delay this, sometimes natural things like wind. Lots of time finding audio balance as well as simple things like focus. Problems with the drones, etc..

I think too much emphasis is on the special effects (and using toys) instead of working on writing, finding actors you believe in.

not really, but the apartment block i live in was used to shoot large portions of a small crime thriller called 'the lookout' about 14 years ago, so i got to see a lot of the setting & dressing that was done to the exteriors & to a lesser extent the interiors. most of it looked like tedious, dreary work, which more or less lines up with how i've heard it's supposed to be.

one night, i was quietly playing music shortly before i turned in for the evening. they happened to be shooting outside. even though i was on the third floor, their mikes were sensitive enough to pick up the sound coming from my stereo, so some poor guy had to go around the building knocking on doors to figure out where it was coming from. he was completely nice, very polite, actually seemed embarrassed to have to bother me.

the lookout is quite a good little film, not an unheralded classic or anything, but certainly worth a look if you like indie-ish crime dramas. has joseph gordon levitt, isla fisher (yabba dabba doo! - missed my big chance to make something happen with her) & jeff daniels.

A lot of these aspects vary depend on the scale of the production. On big budget studio productions, there are a lot of moving parts. Many different departments of the crew float through the set tending to infinitesimally small tasks while the director watches the action through a monitor. On smaller productions the director and other top people work more closely with the crew, and oftentimes someone can wear many hats during a shoot.

It can be a lot of hurry up and wait, or it can be a fast paced hectic scramble. It can be heavily effected by who's running the show.

Downtown Toronto is ground zero for TV and movie filming but from my experience it is very boring.

I’ve done a few small tv shows. A tv show shot outside is a pain in the ass with lighting. We ran through each scene about 5 times. We had one person for each job

I've worked on a few commercials. Fancy high end commercials for furniture stores. Proper film cameras, the tracks and dollys and lights and whole crews. You wouldn't believe how much work they put into filming some sofas. It was an absolutely fascinating process. I was just in charge of carrying the furniture on and off the set. We'd do that. Then they would take about three hours to get the shot. Then we'd set up the next shot. There was paid actors and makeup and the director and everything and they always took everybody out to lunch at some pretty nice places. It was a real experience.

The crew guys were great. A lot of them work in the film industry but they said doing stupid jobs like shooting commercials is how they actually pay the bills.