• xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Surely people would line up to be extras in film… why would they resort to GTA NPCs?

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      1 year ago

      Clearly said by someone that hasn’t worked in the industry.

      Extra work is often miserable, has 0 job security, and is really only suitable for people with very little or no expenses.

      Furthermore crowds are regularly filled with fake extras, even back to the 90s most times you worked as an extra in a crowd scene it was one or two rows of humans standing in front of a dozen rows of cardboard cutouts.

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        1 year ago

        Yep.

        I’ve worked as an extra several times.

        In large crowd scenes it’s been pretty common to have fake people one way or another for a long time.

        One of the movies I was an extra in was “We are Marshall”, which is a football movie.

        Most of the faces in the stands in the football game crowd scenes were attached to inflatable torsos.