casting for extras is still a long way off
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ourdramaqueenThought I'd point out the latest post on Kristin Thompson's blog, regarding the casting of extras on The Hobbit.
http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=255
Excerpt:
There’s the designing, the pre-visualization (if you don’t know what that is, take a look at the extras for King Kong), the building of the sets, costumes, armor, etc. Yes, no doubt there are sets and costumes that can be re-used, but they would have to be dug out of storage, refurbished, and re-assembled. Plenty more will also be needed. There will be location scouting and casting of small roles, as well as the hiring of the behind-the-camera talent. Eventually principal photography will begin. That’s when extras get cast. So figure mid- to late 2009, and maybe later.
As I’ve pointed out before, it is next to impossible for anyone from outside New Zealand to get cast as an extra. The same is true of getting some sort of minor job lugging fake rocks or driving trucks. Labor laws require a work permit for outsiders, and those are hard to get unless you are applying to live in New Zealand permanently (and have enough money and/or talent to make you a desirable immigrant). Any job on the film would have to be filled by a Kiwi unless it can be proved that no one in New Zealand is qualified for it. Expert sound mixers and computer animators will come from abroad to work on The Hobbit, but otherwise Kiwis will make up the team. Please, don’t assume that you are that one person who might just beat the odds, partly because the odds are too great and partly because there are hundreds, possibly thousands of others with that same idea and enthusiasm.
http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=255
Excerpt:
There’s the designing, the pre-visualization (if you don’t know what that is, take a look at the extras for King Kong), the building of the sets, costumes, armor, etc. Yes, no doubt there are sets and costumes that can be re-used, but they would have to be dug out of storage, refurbished, and re-assembled. Plenty more will also be needed. There will be location scouting and casting of small roles, as well as the hiring of the behind-the-camera talent. Eventually principal photography will begin. That’s when extras get cast. So figure mid- to late 2009, and maybe later.
As I’ve pointed out before, it is next to impossible for anyone from outside New Zealand to get cast as an extra. The same is true of getting some sort of minor job lugging fake rocks or driving trucks. Labor laws require a work permit for outsiders, and those are hard to get unless you are applying to live in New Zealand permanently (and have enough money and/or talent to make you a desirable immigrant). Any job on the film would have to be filled by a Kiwi unless it can be proved that no one in New Zealand is qualified for it. Expert sound mixers and computer animators will come from abroad to work on The Hobbit, but otherwise Kiwis will make up the team. Please, don’t assume that you are that one person who might just beat the odds, partly because the odds are too great and partly because there are hundreds, possibly thousands of others with that same idea and enthusiasm.
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Date: 2008-05-01 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-02 03:09 am (UTC)*Ponders the virtues of moving to New Zealand to "get away from it all".*
*Wonders if anyone would notice if she left for two or three years and imigrated to NZ.*
Look, I'm indespensible. They need Noipeh the singing Hobbit to round this thing out! Really!
Never gonna happen, is it? Sigh.
(Don't you DARE suggest that I'm better suited for LOTR the musical. Would you believe I have a friend going to London this summer, and she's going to see it????)