Diary of a Friday Night Lights extra part Duex

Diary of a Friday Night Lights Extra part Duex orginally posted on Myspace Sept 7, 07


So I woke up at 4am... yes, 4 in the freakin' AM! I got ready at home and made the nice scenic drive up to Austin. Call time was at 7:30am and I made it with like 20mins to spare. We wait around a bit and they serve us breakfast. The actor that plays Buddy Garrity (the head cheerleaders dad) was eating breakfast with us in the tent. Little after that the wardrobe girl comes around to see what clothes we brought and to approve our outfit. She ends up liking the blue shirt I was wearing so I didn't have to change in the make shift changing tent with 2 inch cracks that you can see right through. Win, win.

So once everyone is changed and ready we wait for the guys in charge to split us up in our scenes. I'm in the second group, which was pretty much everybody and we get in van and taken to set. It was a Chevrolet dealership turned into Buddy Garrity Motors. THe scene we were filming was set-up for the Hog Day Sale and the guys let us know that there's going to be about 5 real pigs on set. Sure enough we saw... (smelled) the pigs. The scene called for one of the new football players to wrestle the pig. Of course they had an animal watcher lady on set to tell us when to stop filming so that the pig doesn't get tired. haha, i want to be that lady. Imagine, hey what do you do for a living? Oh, I make sure that pigs on movie sets don't get tired while filming. awesome!

Ok i'm losing you, sorry. So we're at the set and see all the actors, folks let me just say Kyle Chandler (lead, plays the coach) is a Hottie McDottie. Ladies, one look in those eyes... swoon. Haha. Anywho, so the guys split us all up in our areas. I'm standing with this other lady by some picnic tables and they start setting up the scene. I notice that the camera is kinda pointing in our direction, but I don't say anything. Then the guy in charge of us, I forgot his name sorry guy but he was cool, tell us that when we start the scene they're going to focus on us then focus on the action behind us. Our action was to talk to each other then walk to the table and pick up plate of food and then walk passed the coach and to another picnic table. Awesome! We definetly got some camera time there.

We do that a few times then we go on to the next scene, which was the actual hog wrestling. The (hot) actor that plays the new "tight end" on the show had to jump the gate and wrestle the pig. So the guy in charge of us extras tells the lady and I to go from the back where we standing to the front when they realease the pigs, and not only do we have to go to the front we go to the gate and watch from there. And what do I see them setting up right in front of us, yup.. the camera. So they said action and we walked up and watch this hotty sweaty guy wrestle a pig and I acted my heart out like I was a huge fan of Hog Wrestling. So we do this scene quite a few times then we got to do one with no sound, yea I got to put my pantamiming skills to the test. I think I found my next calling, Miming. lol.

So what would a fun day on a set be without making a fool of myself... a wasted day that's what it would be. So I'm standing off to the side waiting to do the hog wrestling scene, did I mention I'm just standing and not moving at all? Yes, so i'm standing i'm hold my plate that consists of a hotdog (hotdogs at Hog wrestling.. hrmm?) and some porkgrinds (porkgrinds at Hog wrestling, too much pork for one day) next thing you know, i just drop my plate. And I could of gotten away with it but of course in embarrassment I yell, MAN DOWN! The group next to me claps and so I bow to the audience, the guys in charge of us screams out, FIVE SECOND RULE!!! So I pretend to eat the very stale, covered in dirt, hotdog and I hear some ladies gasp so I said I'm just kidding and pick up my porkgrinds off the floor in embarrassment. I swear I'm a Clutz-a-saurus Rex.

They wrapped us early like around 12:30. I guess after my incident with the hotdog and the pavement, I got peoples attention cause when I was leaving a lot of people were telling me bye and would smile when they saw me. So I guess I did something right. I may of had my zipper down but I don't know. haha. I was gonna go to the next filming at 1pm but I wasn't booked for it and I didn't want to just show up and they turn me away. That would of been embarrassment numero dos and I was hella sleepy so I just turned around and drove home.

El fin. I'll write more when I get more work! lol.

Day in the life of a Friday Night Lights extra.

Day in the life of a Friday Night Lights extra.. --

orginally posted on Myspace Tuesday August 28th.

Let me paint a pretty picture for you. It's hot, hell hot by the way and your put in a closed tent with about 100 other extras taking up your oxygen. The air conditioning vents are being hogged up by a family who got there early enough to snag the table right by the big tunnel looking vent. Just to fill out the voucher so you can get paid, you break into an uncontrable sweat. So the day begins.

Now for the fun stuff. The head guy in charge of us lowly extras marched us to the football field, which I later learned was built merely for the show. Rad! He begins to sit us in the bleachers and I don't mean like he picked me up and sat me down like toddler, I mean he told us ok everyone fill up the first row then start the next row kind of stuff. So what row did I get? Yup,you guessed it... I was up front and personal. Front row, 40 yard line couldn't get better seats if I paid for them. hehe. Row by row the bleachers filled. Well there wasn't that many extras so we only filled like half the bleachers.
Let the games begin! So pretty much it went like this, ok we started off shooting somewhere in the first quarter we were on the opposing team (not the Dillion Panthers that FNL fans love) we were the Westerby Chaparals woot woot!! Go Westerby High! When they said rolling, the head guy Tony started a chat to get us all the football game spirit. Let me tell you this was a full on football game, minus the opposing side and no marching band, tisk tisk. BUt there were cheerleaders, all the football players, trainers, coaches it was really cool.

Anywho, so they said rolling and Tony started a chat "Go Chaps Go!" We screamed that out till they yelled CUT. Rolling... GO CHAPS GO!!... *touchdown* WHOOOOOOO CUT. Rolling... GO CHAPS GO!!!! fumble BOOOOOOO CUT So we do for hours. Tony starts moving us around to fill in holes in the crowd depending on what is being seen on film. Rolling... GO CHAPS GO!!!! touchdown WHOOOOO. fumble BOOOOOOOOOO. yellow flag WHAAAAT!!!!!
Every emotion that I've never felt towards football I had to express. It was fun. I kinda wanted to see the entire game but we kept cutting and breaking to move around, and no those aren't new dance moves. Next thing you know it's midnight and I can't stop yawning. I'm thinking this will end soon, and it did. About and hour and half later. By the end I couldn't yell anymore, I barely had any energy to shake my pom-pom and by pom-pom I don't mean my dairier. So after a few takes of the final shot they dismiss us and we're hauling, and I mean hauling behind (now I'm reffering to my dairier) to the tent so that we can check out. Once we do that we're treated to some of the finest dining eaten with plastic utensils. I was a hungry hungry hippo cause I inhaled everything. lol.

Overall I give it a B-. The "-" is merely cause of the late hours, I think I could of hooted and hollered all day long but I was just too damn tired after midnight. But it was hella fun I tell you. I can't wait to do it again!! And no, I did not meet any of the actors, they weren't at this shooting. Perhaps next time. Goals for me - do more filming to eventually be a featured extra. I hear that title come up often and it sounds pretty, even prettier on a resume I suppose

I'm letting my little blogspot get away from me.

I'm going to post a bombardment of all my blogs that i've been posting on my Myspace on here. I dont' know why I haven't put them on this site, lazy I suppose but oh well. I'll put the original date and such so you'll know around the time that these incidents or thoughts actually occured. Alright let me get to it son!