People who worked in the entertainment industry?

Posted by Flowerofthesouth88@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 6 comments

If you worked behind the scenes or auditioned for certain TV shows or films, or tried it in the music industry, like producing, engineering or auditioning for record companies, tell your story, what was it like?

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Anglea7stars@reddit

I didn't have the patience for this path in life. One movie had a scene where a large number of people were standing waiting for a bus then all get on, sit down, say our lines then get off for retakes- about 30+ times. As there were a lot of passengers each round of getting on/off took a very long time. And after all that the scene was cut in the final edits.

I also tried a job reading audio books and gave up after getting an extremely dry throat.

My best experience was an unscripted documentary, just one take.

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ThatNiceDrShipman@reddit

In my youth I did a little work as a session keyboard player.

I lost interest after it turned out 90% of the time my job was "take this 3 chord masterpiece written by a musically illiterate producer and make it sound less like Chopsticks".

The music tech revolution is an amazing thing but it meant a lot of people who can't play the piano suddenly became de facto keyboard players.

If I'd stuck at it I might have gotten to the big leagues where this sort of thing was less common, but I never did.

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EvilTaffyapple@reddit

I used to be a boom operator on tv / film sets.

I made a horror film once and our lead vampire was a method actor. He didn’t ever speak without his accent and between takes he used to stand on his head in the corner of the room.

He was quite the character.

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OverTheCandlestik@reddit

Theatre actor with some work in TV here!

I’ve done a fair bit of extra work for TV and film and it’s certainly not very glamorous. Very Early starts, got to travel to the location yourself which can be challenging, usually a free haircut, bit of makeup and costume fitting which is usually the most fun but can drag, then get briefed on what’s going on by an assistant director and usually that’s when the more investing looking extras get picked to be featured. Then it’s a lot of waiting and I mean a lot a lot a lot of waiting.

The shooting day is tough rough and repetitive, you don’t really know anyone on set, you’re moved around a lot and in the cold a lot and tbh the wage isn’t great but extra work is still pretty fun just to say “hey that’s me!”

I did more theatre work and I prefer that but the travel was pretty tough, digs were a dive but I really liked the work and the sense of community you had with your company.

Met quite a lot of famous people, some were lovely and down to earth and would make time for us little people others were awful and obnoxiously egotistical

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