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MTVs Promposal

For the last year or so, I've been spending some energy pursuing one of my life goals of being an extra in a movie. I made my first significant progress a couple of months ago with a fleeting appearance on SyFy's Z-nation (covered here). Well, I'm happy to report that I'm moving on up towards that goal with my recent appearance on MTV's reality show called Promposal.

The filming of the show was super fun. We were brought in to be the background circus folks for the filming of a high school music video. Mostly, we just juggled and looked circus-y whenever they pointed the camera at us. Otherwise, we just sat back and watched the magic happen. It was fun seeing both the professional side of things (the MTV crew with the fancy equipment, lights, etc.) and the high school side of things (disorganized but having a ton of fun). We were there for 4 hours with a lot of waiting around (as is par for pretty much anything in TV/film or so I'm learning). At the end, we had no idea how much screen time we'd get if any.

Fast forward 2 months to air date. I was super excited to see myself and my circus buddies on such a popular network. We actually got a fair amount of screen time too! While a lot of it was , there were a few -ish . And by golly, I even got a few clips, one with a !! To top it all off, we even got our names in the ! Overall, I'm super stoked on the whole thing—the filming, the screen time, the excitement!

If you have access, I encourage you to check it on MTV. I think it's even carried On Demand on various carriers. Otherwise, check for reruns, as I think it might happen every now and again. If you don't have access, shoot me an e-mail and we can try to work out getting you hooked up.

Yes, I consider this a big step towards my movie extra life goal Just like NYT crossword and some of the others, it doesn't happen overnight. But with persistence, hopefully it will become a reality. And whatever the case, as long the road to movie extradom is as fun as this Promposal experience was, I'm excited for the ride!

Tuesday May 30 2017

File under: extra, juggling

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on Tue 30th May, 2017 06:05 pm EDT Andrew said:
So.... did they go to prom together?
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on Tue 13th Jun, 2017 04:28 pm EDT Horge said:
I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in you Wren for two reasons.
1) You've helped enable MTV, by making them think that this sort of show is ok, when in reality they should go back to showing music videos. You should have made it into an intervention for the MTV execs...
2) In the credits, you appear to be one of the few to not have given yourself a nickname (like: Wren "Perpetual" Schultz), much less a stage name (like: The Bearded Maybe)
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