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Author Topic: Is Bruce in "One Missed Call"? Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-03-2008 01:06 PM                     To anyone who will be screening "One Missed Call" tonight: I may be in that movie. Look for me in a scene where there is a TV show being made of an exorcism. I'm the engineer sitting with all the TV equipment (if I didn't end up on the cutting room floor). The producers of the movie hired a company I do work for, to provide a real looking TV system for the set. They hired me to be the engineer/video person. There were a number of shots that I was in, so I hope some of them made it into the movie. Let me know if you see me. You need not critique my acting ability (or lack there of). If you need to know what I look like, see the picture to the left.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-03-2008 01:19 PM                       Hey, Bruce, congratulations! That's cool. Hope you're in the show.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-08-2008 08:58 PM                     Well, I finally saw this movie. I have two quick shots, three if you count the shot of my hand pushing buttons on a BVW-50 portable betacam deck. The scene is about half way through the film. My first shot, I'm just sitting there doing my "engineering" thing. The second shot, I am asked "did we get that" (did it record), and I shake my head slowly, with a frightened look (all hell has been breaking loose in the exorcism). Hay Mom, look at me, I'm in a movie!  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-08-2008 10:43 PM                       Way cool, Bruce! Congratulations! I'll go see it just for that. So, when you shot the bit of shaking your head, was someone there feeding you the line? Or did they just say, "okay, Bruce, now shake your head slowly"?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-09-2008 08:33 AM                     They asked him if he liked the new Star wars films.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 01-09-2008 05:05 PM                     When I was building our print of this one, I didnt smell any burning ham when I was running it thru my fingers... I had to say this. Makes me feel better. Seriously, I KNOW A MOVIE STAR!!!!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-09-2008 06:09 PM                        I didn't even know this was a real movie until I saw a review in the newspaper. I know, I know, what am I doing with a newspaper when I'm illiterate? Well, I like to appear smart sometimes. Anyway, congrats!  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-09-2008 06:18 PM                     Bruce, That ham was well done, not burned. You should look through the port and check it out. Don't blink, you might miss it. Tim, They just told me to shake my head. So now, I guess I will have to get the DVD when it comes out. ...That's strange, my cell phone says I have 1 missed call.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-09-2008 06:59 PM                       quote: Bruce Hansen Tim, They just told me to shake my head. Cool. I wasn't sure if you were in a closeup, or a master shot with the dialogue going on around you. This is a perfect illustratration of Eisenstein's Film Form: emotion can be conveyed purely by juxtaposition of shots. I.e., a particular shot can carry any number of meanings or emotions, depending on the shots that come before and after it. Context. quote: John Wilson They asked him if he liked the new Star wars films. LOL! Precisely.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-10-2008 08:09 PM                     Tim, The head shaking shot was a two shot. The person that asked the question, and me. Something interesting: since the system I set up was a real, working multi camera TV production system, I had a waveform monitor/vector scope there. The director thought that it looked really neat, so you see it in the shot where my hand is working the betacam VCR.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 01-11-2008 12:32 AM                     Bruce, Just want to let you know that your film is playing in my 2nd largest Dolby house this week! I'm just waiting for the word to get around so the crowds will come...  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-11-2008 04:50 PM                     Just put my picture up in the loby, and things will start to happen (I'm not saying what though). Do me a favor, keep the darts put away.  |  IP: Logged

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