The Anonymous Production Assistant

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Alex writes in: I am about to graduate from university this month. I recently discovered your blog and am a big fan, I appreciate the

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Most of the time, you’re not going to deal with more than a handful of extras in any one scene. That’s because extras are people,

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If you follow me on Twitter, you might have heard some of my frustrations with background actors on a small shoot I was helping out

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There’s an old TAPA post about wrangling extras that still gets comments from time to time, because it has some unflattering things to say about

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An AD by the name of Jason Roberts recently commented on a post from a couple months ago: I would like to think that you

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Kate writes in: What do you think about someone who works as an extra (background) to network with crew? I laughingly find it easy to

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I was hanging out on the set today, and I overheard a background actress talking with one of the set PAs. At a certain point,