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Acting 101: Hit your mark. Or how not to get cut from a scene.
Lights, camera -action…...roll B side and everybody, will you please watch out for the dolly — we are on take 8 and eating at the budget!
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If someone had told me when I was a kid that someday I would be in a movie I would have said” are you crazy”. Like how? But there was one thing for certain, I was a movie and Television lover. If that is possible. And I had a knack for observing and making mental notes on how things are put together.
I also use to watch all the filler segments at the end of movies broadcast by the networks during the ’60s and ’70s. Many times, there was a little extra time left before the 11 pm news cast. The networks and local affiliates would fill that time with material and promotional programming about upcoming movie releases. This included featurettes packed with behind the scenes & marketing- basically a lesson in filmmaking. Here’s an example, Shaft’s Big Score-stills edited together and set to the Blowin Your Mind track-Blowin’ Your Mind, from “Shaft’s Big Score” (1972)
