"Extra, Extra!"

So today i was an extra on the upcoming 2011 film "The Great Ghost Rescue" and it was a tonne of fun. I met the chaperone's and the seven other girls at Waterloo station before we walked around the IMAX cinema and arrived at "THGR Base" at 2pm. Although the call was 2pm we didn't actually get on set until around 4pm, until then we were given trailers so relax in and sandwiches, cake and drink for refreshments. The day before we each had a call to say we could wear either shorts, jeans or skirts with summer shoes and nothing that was either green or red. We were each given a different colour top with I *pacman ghost picture* London, (I ghost London) which is obviously ironic to the films title, so my 'costume' was a white skirt and blue pacman t-shirt.  (and yes I really want to buy one now!)

The scene we shot was very short but so much fun to do!

There were a group of "Roman ghost soldiers" sitting outside a cafe and we had to weir for the directors cue before running up to them and asking for their autograph etc, the table of Romans i went to were ludicrously funny, they made it so much easier and more relaxing to film. We did a couple of run through's and then the real shot a couple more. The second clip we were acting as a small group out for a days shopping in London when one of the girls spots the Roman ghost and we all run towards them. To make it fit the previous shot of us running to the Romans we had to run in from a different angle, this meant walking down the street normally, then when the director called we turned and ran the opposite side of the camera so we were running diagonally across the screen so we stopped side on from where the other actors we sitting, we ran through it a couple of times and repeated the actual shot about 3-4 times. During takes it was quite easy to interact with the other cast (the Romans) and we finished about 7:10.

All in all it was such an amazing day, the actors were all really easy to laugh with which made it so much more fun and easy to film, it was really interesting to see what happen in front and behind the camera and amazing to be a part of it even for one small scene. I really hope i get to do some more acting again soon, it was so much fun!