You know how sometimes watching TV you look at movie stars working behind the scenes, at awards shows, and think wow I wonder what it would be like if I did that? Being the movie fiend I am, this is one feeling I get every now and then. I mean I love movies and learning about them, however, after doing this project I can now say I don’t want to be an actor. Don’t worry I haven’t totally lost my love for film, in fact my experience in making this movie makes me more appreciative in a way of the hard work actors put in to their work. For Inhabited I played a very small role, of which remembering the lines took some effort and multiple takes, yet probably only amasses to five minutes in the finished project. Through this I’ve learned that memorizing lines and being on camera was not something I really liked. However, I really enjoyed working behind the camera as Script Supervisor. It was so much fun working with Mariyanthie, Rebekah, and Alleya as they ran through lines. Sometimes I had to get tough and take away their scripts to see if they could get through the scene. They would look at me with scared looks on their faces but I was determined to make sure they knew their parts.
One of the funniest things to happen while making the film would have been on the first day of shooting, when it was Rebekah (the director), Allison (camerawoman), Allison’s roommate (playing Kel) , Mariyanthie, and I. Since we were filming in the hallway of the dorm, we had the occasional passerby to worry about. We were towards the end of the hallway so one of “crew members” had to serve as a lookout for when people came around the corner. This position fell on Mariyanthie, who served as a bodyguard on our film set. For some reason this has hilarious to me because she threatened to get ‘very scary’ if someone interrupted. Now, for those who know Mariyanthie you know she is as soft as a marshmallow, for her to be mean, is just not possible. She’s just too nice! However the abuse she threatened to throw at these unsuspecting people was so funny we had to cut twice because I would start laughing during the take.
Though sometimes it was hard (especially for our amazing camerawoman Allison) , this project was so much fun to be apart of. Before starting this class I always wanted to be apart of a production of some kind and work behind the scenes, and this gave me the opportunity to do so. I even got to hold the camera at one point! Not only did I get the chance to do this but I’m more interested in doing something like this again, and can’t wait to find somewhere I can.
