The day-long affair will take place Sunday, Sept. 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the backlot of Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; at the nearby Museum; and on surrounding streets.
Friday, September 19, 2014
New York Street Fair Offers Rare Look Inside Film and TV Production
The day-long affair will take place Sunday, Sept. 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the backlot of Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; at the nearby Museum; and on surrounding streets.
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The Museum of the Moving Image is doing such a cool thing here! I would really really like to go to this event. I think it is a nice thing to be able to include the general public into what happens when you’re making a movie. So often people are interested in watching when a street is closed off to make a film (because they hope they’ll see a famous person) but the thing they forget is that this is an opportunity to see something that is often so removed from the public. How many times in your life do you get to see something like this if you don’t work in film or theatre? It’s also an incredible way for people who do this for a living to show their family and friends what their life is like and what kind of things they do all day. How cool! As someone who still has a grandfather who doesn’t understand in the slightest what it is that I’ve chosen to do with my life, I’d absolutely love to take him to a day long demonstration of what it’s like.
This sounds so incredibly exciting--I'm so jealous I can't be there to see it. I can only hope they'll put it up again during the summer. As a New Yorker, I completely identify with the article's quote about the public "grow[ing] accustomed to seeing movie trucks and trailers in [my] neighborhood." I find myself taking the long way to my house sometimes to sneakily catch the newest filming location, to peer into the sound trucks and watch roadies unload large amounts of technology. Many times in high school I left my apartment to find my entire block crowded by huge white trailers with obscure names on them. It would be awesome to get a glimpse into the other side of the entertainment business, as a student studying theater. I would be really excited to talk to the film professionals about their work and how they got to the positions they are currently in. The Museum of the Moving Image and its partners have definitely found a great way to come back from hiatus.
So this makes me miss New York even more then I already did. I think this is a really great idea as the article makes a good point; New Yorkers are so used to seeing trailers and trucks for movies/shows/events all over the place (Law and Order always uses my neighborhood). It is whole other experience to be able to check out what is actually going on as opposed to not even being able to cross the street because of the filming. I am glad that the Museum of the Moving Image is taking this on with the union, that museum has always had captivation ideas and exhibits, though it is many times forgotten. I love it when people can see what we behind the scenes people do, though it is not always understood. I personally would not have been inspired to do theater when I was younger if it were not for backstage tours.
What a cool event, this sounds like so much fun. When you don't know very much about how the production side of things work, it's surprising to learn just how much you really don't know.Coming into Carnegie Mellon my freshman year, I knew I didn't know a lot about how the different aspects of theatrical production work, but I didn't realize just how little I knew about until I started to learn about it. It would be really exciting to have the opportunity to see this because I imagine that many people would realize how much more there is to film making than they knew before. As the article mentioned, it is also a really excellent opportunity for behind-the-scenes workers to have the chance to interact with the New York public and teach them about what they do.
I wish I could see this! People never get tired of seeing "behind the scenes" on glamorous and extraordinary acts, and what is more glamorous than the movie industry?
I also think that this is great to show a better range of the type of job people can work in the entertainment industry. It seems very flashy to be a movie star, but if people and kids can grow up aspiring to be electricians and hair designers, it can really only benefit our industry.
This sounds like a really cool way to give people some real insight into what it takes to make movies and television. I think everyone has a vague idea of what it's like to work behind the scenes based on the little that is occasionally shown in movies and so on. Getting to talk to professionals about their jobs and talking about the work they do might even help boost peoples' interest in entertainment work; young people especially could be inspired to take an entirely different track with their lives by displaying more of some generally non-standard jobs. Personally I'd be really interested in checking out the exhibit as well.
I was like applauded in delight when I was this. This sounds super cool, and I really wish I could get a chance to see it at least once in my life while I still have a chance. This is something that I've never seen before and it's not something that I can see in everyday's life and I think it will be a truly great experience, especially to us working in an entertainment fields, to learn and get something from this. I wish we could all be in New York and have a class trip to see this. I think it will be a very eye-opened for students.
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