This week I did a commercial for a new playstation game that was pretty high budget. It was shot at a studio out in Chiba, and the attention to detail was simply incredible. Normally, when you show up on set, (at an insanely early hour) you spend the next few hours sitting around waiting before you even get dressed, but in this case, we had to ‘suit up’ immediately after arriving. In 6 years of doing TV dramas, commercials, and films, that was a first time for me. And I could see why. Guns aside, the suits they dressed us up in were all straight up authentic battle gear, (all the way down to the gloves with ultra-lightweight carbon fiber knuckle guards) and it took forever for us to put it all on.
By far, this had to be the coolest costume I’ve ever worn for a shoot. After getting dressed in all this, (keeping in mind that it was all brand-spankin’ new) they instructed us to lay down and roll around in the dust, dirt and rubble to make us look like we were in the middle of a battle.
The dialog itself for the commercial was only about 3 lines (which I can’t speak of as of yet), but the director made the two main actors (one of whom, Lazlo, is an action student of mine) do the line at least 50 times. As he was yelling the lines, I could just imagine how exahausting (and painful) it had to have been by late afternoon. This kind of shoot is what I envision when I think of a big budget production.
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