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Welcome Modern feature films usually contain only a handful of major roles and a slew of film extras filling out the background in every scene. There are far more parts available for film extras than starring roles. Becoming a film extra can be easy if you live in a large market city like New York or Los Angeles, but being a film extra does not pay a whole lot.

The process of becoming a film extra starts with contacting a casting service or hiring director directly. You can be called to work as a non-union film extra until you qualify to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The biggest difference between being a union film extra and a non-union film extra is the pay. Members of SAG are union-scale compensated and non-union film extras earn far less for the same work.

Obviously, if you desire to work as a film extra, it only makes sense to become a union member quickly to earn the most pay for the job possible. There are three ways to join the Screen Actors Guild with the first being very unlikely. You would have to be hired as a principal performer in a SAG show without being in the union. That doesn’t happen often, especially for film extras.

The second method is to join SAG after being a member of an affiliated performer’s union for at least one year and having worked at least once in that time as a principal performer with that organization. Again not likely, as film extras are seldom called to be principal performers.

The easiest method of joining the union as a film extra is to get hired as a SAG film extra for three days. Every SAG production must hire a certain amount of union film extras for each day on the set of course, but the directors are also allowed to hire non-union film extras for parts beyond the minimum number required by SAG. If you are selected as one of the non-union film extras, you will receive a non-union voucher that goes toward the three you need to join SAG. After three vouchers you are eligible to be a member. A full membership as a union film extra will cost around $2,200 annually, but the cost is a bargain when considering the higher rate of pay and other benefits union film extras receive

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