Behind the scenes

As a film production major it makes sense that one of my favorite extras of movies to watch is the behind the scenes footage. You can watch a movie or a show and see a handful of people on screen and most of the time that´s all the people audience remembers because they saw the actors. The actors become famous and stars because that´s who we see on the screen. But we, the audience always seem to forget the hundreds of people that are behind the camera on blockbuster movie sets.

When I watch the behind the scenes footage, I not only get to see some of the people behind the camera but also how ridiculously different everything looks for everyone on set and for us when we watch the movie. For example, in I, Robot starring Will Smith, we see the finished project with all the effects, we see the robots on screen and all the buildings and interiors, but after watching the BTS footage you realize all that the actors see is mostly just green screen and not much more, most of the robots we see on screen are nothing behind the scenes. It´s fun to see how movies are actually filmed, either with mostly green screen or on actual locations using practical effects. Especially since I hope to be on a set like those one day.