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Thinking About Extras

July 10, 2014, 10:00 pm

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Arthur Vincie discusses the implications of working with extras and stand-ins.

This happens a lot: I’m budgeting a script and I get to this crowded street scene, or a basketball game, or a really killer dance set piece. I figure out as best I can how many extras are needed, and budget all the related costs accordingly. Then I present the budget to the producer and she’s horrified. “One hundred thousand for extras? What the hell?”

Okay, so maybe I’m exaggerating, but not by much. Even if you don’t pay for extras, you have to think about them – where you need them, when you can get away without them, and how you’re going to cast, feed, clothe, and transport them. So in this article we’ll cover the basics of how to think intelligently about extras.

WHAT ARE EXTRAS?

Extras are there to fill in the background (hence the other term, background actors) of the scene, or be part of a group that’s in the foreground. A lot of producers think that if they take away lines from a minor character in the script, that they can fill that role with an extra. This isn’t always the case, however.

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