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I was a background extra


I'm really excited to see that this movie is on IMDb now; I've been watching for it. I was recruited to be a background extra when they came to shoot at my university (Mount Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick). We didn't meet David Boreanaz (this made many of the extras sad) but I did get the chance to see/say hello to Holly Lewis and Caroline Dhavernas, which was fun.

If you go see it, I'm the girl in the pale pink shirt. :)

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hey that's great!! i've been working in postproduction on that movie, and i am a huge fan of Buffy, i was just so happy to work on one of David's project! do you have any info, like when it'll be out in theaters or stuff?

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Sorry, no, all they told us was "fall 2005."

What do you mean by "in postproduction"? (I know nothing about making movies)

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i was stipping the audio (when the picture reels of the day were transferred on cassette, my job was to match the audio with the video , then to record it)it was pretty interesting!

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I'm a film student at Ryerson so I’ll try to explain. Today almost all films and ALL feature films go through certain steps in order to be made i.e.; development (script), marketing (distribution) there are more to these stages but I will stick to principalities and simple explanatory examples.
There are also three steps of production when making a movie:
1) Pre-Production: basically planning and preparation
2) Production: this begins when the camera starts to roll on day 1 of the shoot until all footage has been captured and filming has been completed (principal photography) Re-shoots can still occur when film is in Post Production if something does not look right. However that is rare because during production film is exposed at the end of everyday (called Rushes and Dailies) in order to view shots as soon as to avoid re-shoots.
3) Post-Production: as already stated in this forum is when you take the footage and turn it into a movie via editing, sound sync, soundtrack, score, titles, mixing etc...

Pre = before, Post = after.
So this movie has already been shot and it is now going through the post production stage.

Hope that makes sense.

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hey iw as also an extra in this movie it was at sandy beach in cape pele it was awsome! david boreanaz was so nice and it was suprixing that he ate with us extras in this *beep* little hut instead of in his trailor. I also got to meet holly and caroline and amanda walsh, holly was very nice and talked with me for a bit but i think the other two werent really in the mood to talk to fans lol.

just remember when u see this movie and it looks like a hot summer day that it wasnt actually a hot summer day it was in the middle of cotober and we were freezing our butts off!

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Did you see Amanda Walsh? The cute blue eyed blonde? Probably making out with David Boreanaz(on camera)? Let me know I'm such a HUGE fan of her!

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Hey, I was also an extra in Bagtown (Sackville, in case your wondering).

I showed up hung-over for the softball game...

Then they told us that it was "summer", so we had to take off our winter coats.

I'm the dude cheering as the girl scores a run.

Me and my girlfriend both want to see this movie just to see if we were in it. Anybody know when it's coming out for sure?

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