With luck and persistence, it is possible to have quite a busy part-time career as film or television extras. Production companies are constantly on the look-out for ‘background artistes’, and although experience of this type of work is always an advantage, no particular training or skills are required to be successful at it.
One of the major difficulties is that extras work often comes up at very short notice, or may be available at only irregular intervals. This is why you should only consider this sort of work as a supplement to other forms of work. The difficulty then arises when you are called at short notice. If the timing is inconvenient then you face the problem of turning work down, which in turn will lead to your being offered less of it in future or of having to drop whatever else you do to be available.
You should also remember that, although you can find a number of agencies in the trade papers such as The Stage, through whom can get you work as production extras, there are also a number of operators out there who are simply trying to con money out of you, so be weary when it comes to who you’re dealing with.
At Audition Now, we help to send the work your way without your running these risks. We text information on shoots and casting calls direct to your mobile phone. In that way we help you make the best of opportunities to find extras auditions.
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