Friday, 26 July 2013

Humpreys music video

Got a message via that wonderful (!) site Starnow.
We are casting extras for a one day shoot music video happening in between the dates 27th- 30th of October.

The artist is called Humphrey Milles and you can listen to the track on this link.

http://soundcloud.com/raul-caldeira/06-not-enough/s-JhKZL

Now, I never do unpaid work. Very occasionally I will do expenses only if its something I am interested in but No Pay No Way is  my usual mantor. However, I listened to the track & found that I really liked the music so decided that in this case I would go ahead and do it for expenses.
So on a bright Friday morning, at 7am  I found myself at an office building in Woolwich High Street dressed in office style clothing. There were about 20 of us  so it took some time to get us all organised and fed and watered!
The job was simple, at first... we just had to sit down and listen to an actor give a speech. Of course there was no such speech as the music would be played over the top of the filming.
Next we had to stand up and give a person  a hug whilst the actor directed  us as to where we should be looking for hugs! Around this time people began to  leave. Not because they didn't like the filming but because they had other things to do, work to go to and besides, they weren't being paid so it really didn't matter - did it? It certainly caused a few problems as suddenley there were empty chairs and areas of space where there wasn't any before. This often happens with no pay/expenses pay  jobs. After a while we were asked to do a bit of mad dancing before being filmed having  coffee & biscuits.
I'm not in most of it as I was sat next to Humprey Miles on his left side which is never seen but I still think the track is quite good. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmKFNQLQUk

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