In the Background: An Extra's Handbook

by Bill Tarling and Peter Messaline

In the Background gives advice on courses and casting, and how to prepare before shooting begins. It describes the joy and the fear, the pleasures and the pain, the challenge and the boredom of life on set. Wardrobe, taxes, files, resumes, the myriad details of the performer's life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889242674
• ISBN13: 9780889242678
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"