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A multi-day shoot last week at Community Hospital of Long Beach http://www.chlb.org/
for an industrial training video series. Referred by some friends at Concept Media, a co. that markets medical DVDs to schools & hospitals. They closed off one wing of the campus, which is fairly old. If we had been shooting at night it would've been creepy, like the TV miniseries Kingdom Hospital
The shooting crew was the same crew that works for NBC's Dateline TV show, so there may be a parallel story run in the future there, most likely on some aspect of malpractice.
I had 3 lines (upped to 5 on day of shooting) in the coveted role of NURSE #4 !
(Nurse 3 is the "villain" of the piece; he was played by a local theater actor and his tired character forgets to tell me important aspects of the elderly patient chart.)
Actually now that I think about it, one of the lines the director added (on the spur of the moment) also seems to implicate my character!
Damn, I should have improvised it to "Huh, I wasn't told she was incontinent!"
Scrubs, name tag, and stethoscope were provided (my scrub size: 4X!
)
I was told to have my hair "fixed" heh heh (I ended up buying a huge tub of gel to control its recent unruliness).
Snacks & drinks were provided; we had to change into our costumes in unused hospital rooms. I got to take a 1 hour nap in one while waiting for my scenes.
All in all, it was a mixture of boredom & fun, and I ended up on set for only 4 1/2 hours on Wednesday (got paid for 5) and the check was pretty good!
for an industrial training video series. Referred by some friends at Concept Media, a co. that markets medical DVDs to schools & hospitals. They closed off one wing of the campus, which is fairly old. If we had been shooting at night it would've been creepy, like the TV miniseries Kingdom Hospital
The shooting crew was the same crew that works for NBC's Dateline TV show, so there may be a parallel story run in the future there, most likely on some aspect of malpractice.I had 3 lines (upped to 5 on day of shooting) in the coveted role of NURSE #4 !
(Nurse 3 is the "villain" of the piece; he was played by a local theater actor and his tired character forgets to tell me important aspects of the elderly patient chart.)
Actually now that I think about it, one of the lines the director added (on the spur of the moment) also seems to implicate my character!
Damn, I should have improvised it to "Huh, I wasn't told she was incontinent!"Scrubs, name tag, and stethoscope were provided (my scrub size: 4X!
)I was told to have my hair "fixed" heh heh (I ended up buying a huge tub of gel to control its recent unruliness).
Snacks & drinks were provided; we had to change into our costumes in unused hospital rooms. I got to take a 1 hour nap in one while waiting for my scenes.
All in all, it was a mixture of boredom & fun, and I ended up on set for only 4 1/2 hours on Wednesday (got paid for 5) and the check was pretty good!
:ROTF: 
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