[Dixielandjazz] Musicians faking in movies

[LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing]

I have a copy and enjoy the movie a bunch.

A few years ago I was in a made for TV mini series.  It was about a family
over a period of years.  There was a 20's speakeasy scene and I went to the
casting office to sign up for the scene.  Turns out that they had enough
guys for the scene so they asked me if I could play violin.  I told them I
could hold one pretty well.  I was hired.  We were supposed to make union
rates for this by the way, NOT!  I came on the set and they dressed us in
tails and we were going to be the string quartet for the wedding scene.
Being a bit rotund I didn't fit the costume very well and we proceeded to
wait for hours before the call came.  When we got there the director wanted
the group to fake the wedding march.  I never saw three guys panic like that
before.  I had detuned my strings so no one would really hear me.  The
wedding march was such a disaster but I knew that they would just dub in the
sound.  When the movie came out I taped it so I could enjoy my performance
on the little screen for years to come.  Turns out the only thing that got
into the movie was my elbow.

The things we do for money!
Larry Walton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Miller" <Dick_Miller at pmug.org>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Musicians faking in movies


> dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com writes:
> >   It may come as a surprise to some that even musicians fake playing in
> >movies, especially when they are part of the background in a party or
> >club
> >scene.
>
> Case in point: "The Gig," subject of a recent thread on this list. I went
> off to Amazon.com and got me a copy, then watched it the other night. I
> was a bit surprised to see Allen Vache', who was both the cornet player in
> the movie and the music director of the film, when his fingerings didn't
> match the notes. Then I thought about it a while. They often do a number
> of takes of a scene, and could well have used cuts from different takes to
> make up the total scene  as it wound up in the movie, accounting for the
> differences.
>
> --Dick Miller
>
>
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