Thanks Fun Spot, "Iiiiiit's HUGE"!!!!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Fun Spot Commercial!
The Fun Spot commercial me and my friend are in has been released!!! You can't really spot us lol as the camera is from a height but alas, we are in it!! We had so much fun doing it, learning the routine, and seeing first hand how commercials are made. The organizers were very friendly and even compensated us for our time after with vouchers to come back to one of their parks. I haven't been able to use mine yet but i fully intend to go back and take full advantage :)
Thanks Fun Spot, "Iiiiiit's HUGE"!!!!
Thanks Fun Spot, "Iiiiiit's HUGE"!!!!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Animal Kingdom Passholder Event
This week we were lucky enough to get tickets to go to our first ever annual passholder event at Disney! This time it was at Animal Kingdom and it was to celebrate the 5th birthday of the Expedition Everest ride! Our passes are only weekday, so I called ahead and they said this was fine as they were giving out wristbands anyway. But when we got to the gate, the cast member at the turnstile wouldn't let us in, so that was a bit frustrating as obviously no one had informed her about the event. So we had to go to guest services and he let us in via their side entrance and said he would make sure the staff were told as they were not meant to be sending us away!
As soon as we got in we saw a truck pull up with Minnie Moue, Goofy and Donald Duck on, they were saying bye to the guests. So as I had never seen that before myself, I had to take a picture!
We were given a flyer on what was going to be open that night as most of the park was still closing at 6 PM. So we headed straight to Expedition Everest! We were just trying to decide whether or not to queue up in the 20 minute wait time, when suddenly we spotted Mickey and Goofy dressed up as explorers! It was lucky that we saw them as we were able to be toward the front of the line, which by the time we had met them, was about 50 people long! It was great though as the cast member that took the photo for us told us to smush together to fit in, so we got really squished by them both, hence why the picture is a little blurry! LOL
After we met them, the line for Everest had gone down a little so we quickly lined up, as its quite rare to do the ride at night as its normally closed before sunset!
Most of the park was closed at this point, but there were some DJ booths giving out pins and encouraging people to dance....Simon wasn't so keen for some reason ;-) So we ended up heading to Dinosaur to ride that. I always seem to forget how violent it is, I regretted going on shortly after! But it is a great ride!
This was the end of our visit for tonight, as there wasn't much more to do and we wanted to catch the last tram back to the car! But we did enjoy our first passholder event, and I am already looking forward to the next one!
As soon as we got in we saw a truck pull up with Minnie Moue, Goofy and Donald Duck on, they were saying bye to the guests. So as I had never seen that before myself, I had to take a picture!
After we met them, the line for Everest had gone down a little so we quickly lined up, as its quite rare to do the ride at night as its normally closed before sunset!
Most of the park was closed at this point, but there were some DJ booths giving out pins and encouraging people to dance....Simon wasn't so keen for some reason ;-) So we ended up heading to Dinosaur to ride that. I always seem to forget how violent it is, I regretted going on shortly after! But it is a great ride!
Movie Extras!!!!!!
Last week myself, my husband, Natasha and Tyler decided to apply to be extras for the movie currently being filmed in Orlando. The movie will be called Renee, and features Chad Michael Murray, Kat Dennings, Rupert Friend, and Corbin Bleu, among others! They wanted extras to be in their concert scenes.
We had to get there for 6 p.m. to sign in, and were given orange wrist bands. There was a ton of waiting around but this paid off as at one point one of the directors approached our small group and asked if we would be willing to be stunt people! Of course we said yes! Along with about 7 other reeeeeeally tall guys, we were asked to be the assigned audience members that would hep Kat Dennings safely crowd surf. We practiced a few times on the director until she was happy we would be okay.
When it was time for the scene our small group was personally led into the already formed audience in front of the stage. The best bit was where the whole audience had to part in the middle to allow us to walk all the way up to the front! It was a really cool feeling....like when you're at Disney World walking down Main Street RIGHT before the parade starts and you feel like dancing and pretending you're part of it! No? just me? ok well anyway!
We could hear people asking "well why are THEY so special?" and another women saying "ohhh yes I bet they are from an agency!!" LOL was so funny!
From this point there was a lot of waiting, and practicing with the director doing the crowd surfing scenes! We were all told how important it was NOT to look at the camera, and just dance and have fun! They taped us all dancing to the band Paper Route, then it was time to bring the actors out!! Me and Natasha could hardly see anything due to the assigned tall guys in front of us LOL! But we caught glimpses of Chad, and took some very questionable blurry pictures! He's doing a peace sign and looking back in the first picture, this may help you find him! LOL
Then came our crowd surf scene! Kat was to be carried over and placed down just behind us. Was great seeing her so up close, she seemed really lovely. She thanked us and asked if she squished anybody on the way lol! I caught her checking out my Hello Kitty bag, but before i could pluck up the courage to say anything the next scene was ready. We must have carried her over about 7 times in total, so I'm really hoping we are in the film!
We were able to stay where we were while they filmed the 'bad guy' looking for her amongst the crowd, and also while they did some close up crowd shots. Although, I wasn't very happy when the camera guy actually leant his camera ON my head to keep it steady....hadn't he ever heard of a tripod?! thanks LOL!
In total we were there for around 8 hours! Our feet were killing, but both Natasha and I won prizes, so that made up for it! We also spotted Corbin Bleu taking photos with fans nearby, we were too exhausted to get up so I just took some photos from afar.
I definitely enjoyed our evening being movie extras, as its something I had never done before, lets just hope they didn't cut those scenes!!! ;-)
Heres the bag of swag I won, pretty cool!!!
We had to get there for 6 p.m. to sign in, and were given orange wrist bands. There was a ton of waiting around but this paid off as at one point one of the directors approached our small group and asked if we would be willing to be stunt people! Of course we said yes! Along with about 7 other reeeeeeally tall guys, we were asked to be the assigned audience members that would hep Kat Dennings safely crowd surf. We practiced a few times on the director until she was happy we would be okay.
When it was time for the scene our small group was personally led into the already formed audience in front of the stage. The best bit was where the whole audience had to part in the middle to allow us to walk all the way up to the front! It was a really cool feeling....like when you're at Disney World walking down Main Street RIGHT before the parade starts and you feel like dancing and pretending you're part of it! No? just me? ok well anyway!
We could hear people asking "well why are THEY so special?" and another women saying "ohhh yes I bet they are from an agency!!" LOL was so funny!
From this point there was a lot of waiting, and practicing with the director doing the crowd surfing scenes! We were all told how important it was NOT to look at the camera, and just dance and have fun! They taped us all dancing to the band Paper Route, then it was time to bring the actors out!! Me and Natasha could hardly see anything due to the assigned tall guys in front of us LOL! But we caught glimpses of Chad, and took some very questionable blurry pictures! He's doing a peace sign and looking back in the first picture, this may help you find him! LOL
Then came our crowd surf scene! Kat was to be carried over and placed down just behind us. Was great seeing her so up close, she seemed really lovely. She thanked us and asked if she squished anybody on the way lol! I caught her checking out my Hello Kitty bag, but before i could pluck up the courage to say anything the next scene was ready. We must have carried her over about 7 times in total, so I'm really hoping we are in the film!
We were able to stay where we were while they filmed the 'bad guy' looking for her amongst the crowd, and also while they did some close up crowd shots. Although, I wasn't very happy when the camera guy actually leant his camera ON my head to keep it steady....hadn't he ever heard of a tripod?! thanks LOL!
In total we were there for around 8 hours! Our feet were killing, but both Natasha and I won prizes, so that made up for it! We also spotted Corbin Bleu taking photos with fans nearby, we were too exhausted to get up so I just took some photos from afar.
Heres the bag of swag I won, pretty cool!!!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Fun Spot Commercial!
Yesterday me and Natasha attending the taping for the new Fun Spot commercial, the one I had previously mentioned in this blog (scroll down a few lol). We were both really excited for it...until the morning of the shoot, when we both got really really nervous! What would it be like, will we be able to do the moves, are we wearing the right thing, what are you eating for breakfast?! You know, normal regular worries!
We felt better when we got there and saw there were another 30 or so people that had turned up, all different ages, and all wearing different colours etc, so we could pretty much blend in.
The first part of the morning consisted of us all learning the dance moves, which were apparently 'simplified' from what they were originally going to have us learn, and only the 'actual' dancers would be doing the more complicated moves. Which was fine with us as we were nervous enough anyway!
After learning the moves indoors we were all lead to the filming area outside which was in the middle of the park right by the ferris wheel. Unfortunately this was where they randomly split everyone up and placed us where they wanted us, so, horrified, Natasha and I had to do the routine separated! Which I guess for them it was for the best as we may have just giggled our way through it otherwise! I won't say what the new song is for the commercial, but lets just say after hearing the same sound bite over and over for a few hours...it has not left my head yet!! Its so catchy as you would expect :)
They took quite a few shots of us all doing the routine and thank fully neither I nor Natasha were told to sit out on the bleachers, which was where they were sending people they didn't think could manage the routine.....big relief! LOL! We then went back inside to record some audio and get some AC relief!
The last part of the day was filming in front of the entrance on the main road. The dancers were doing the routine in the middle and we had to stand to the sides and have fun...kind of dreading what that bit will look like as we were right at the front for it, but luckily we were next to each other this time!
We really enjoyed the whole experience, as neither of us had ever done anything like this before! Plus the organisers were very good as they provided drinks along with pizza and hot dogs, so we were well looked after. At the end of shoot they upgraded our $20 gift cards to $55 gift cards!!!! So as you can imagine I shall be returning soon to take full advantage of it...I hope they have a Skeeball machine in the arcade!!
Once the commercial is out I will post a link...depending on how we look in it he he! Heres a link to the last commercial they did.......IIIIIT'S HUGE!!!!!!
We felt better when we got there and saw there were another 30 or so people that had turned up, all different ages, and all wearing different colours etc, so we could pretty much blend in.
The first part of the morning consisted of us all learning the dance moves, which were apparently 'simplified' from what they were originally going to have us learn, and only the 'actual' dancers would be doing the more complicated moves. Which was fine with us as we were nervous enough anyway!
After learning the moves indoors we were all lead to the filming area outside which was in the middle of the park right by the ferris wheel. Unfortunately this was where they randomly split everyone up and placed us where they wanted us, so, horrified, Natasha and I had to do the routine separated! Which I guess for them it was for the best as we may have just giggled our way through it otherwise! I won't say what the new song is for the commercial, but lets just say after hearing the same sound bite over and over for a few hours...it has not left my head yet!! Its so catchy as you would expect :)
They took quite a few shots of us all doing the routine and thank fully neither I nor Natasha were told to sit out on the bleachers, which was where they were sending people they didn't think could manage the routine.....big relief! LOL! We then went back inside to record some audio and get some AC relief!
The last part of the day was filming in front of the entrance on the main road. The dancers were doing the routine in the middle and we had to stand to the sides and have fun...kind of dreading what that bit will look like as we were right at the front for it, but luckily we were next to each other this time!
We really enjoyed the whole experience, as neither of us had ever done anything like this before! Plus the organisers were very good as they provided drinks along with pizza and hot dogs, so we were well looked after. At the end of shoot they upgraded our $20 gift cards to $55 gift cards!!!! So as you can imagine I shall be returning soon to take full advantage of it...I hope they have a Skeeball machine in the arcade!!
Once the commercial is out I will post a link...depending on how we look in it he he! Heres a link to the last commercial they did.......IIIIIT'S HUGE!!!!!!
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