Lights, cameras, action

[onefixedstar]

It's summer in Toronto, and the film crews are out and about. Last year, it was Take the Lead, for which they transformed the building where my department is located into a New York high school, complete with New York police cars, New York cabs, New York street signs, and a partial facade. (I have no idea what, if anything, they did to the inside. I didn't go into that part of the building to check. Although I probably could have--security wasn't that tight most of the time.)

This year, they're filming at a local frat house two doors down from my apartment. The letter they sent around last week said that they're filming the next American Pie movie, specifically an after-party at a frat house that takes place following the famous Naked Mile run at the University of Michigan. Toronto: the all-purpose city. One year New York, the next Michigan. It's a more focused shoot this time, so they haven't done as many external transformations: one street sign, some different Greek letters on the house, some carefully positioned beer bottles (which didn't really require staging), and I think they took the snow tiger statue down. I believe it's entirely an outdoor shoot. Sadly for them, it just started to rain.

Oh, and they were a lot of trucks on campus today, so someone is probably filming something there too. But then, they usually are.

Comments

[steninja.livejournal.com]

They were filming take the lead and you didn't camp out to meet Antonio Banderas?! And you never told me so that I could camp out to meet Antonio Banderas? Gah! Did you watch it to see if you recognized the school?

That is pretty cool that they film so much around you. Too bad we aren't more interested in it and the stars in order to make use of the chances to meet them and see the filming. Did that make sense?

:D