'Bohemian Rhapsody' Film Production Question

[Wheelz]

@kenobi_65

In 1988 (before the CGI crowds were feasible), when the movie Major League was being filmed, the producers used Milwaukee County Stadium as a stand-in for Cleveland Stadium. They issued casting calls for extras (via newspaper ads) to come to the stadium to serve as the crowd for game scenes. IIRC, they got thousands to show up, but nowhere near the tens of thousands they would have needed to come close to filling the stadium. So, as I understand it, during they moved the extras around from section to section of the stadium, depending on the particular shot being done.

I had a similar experience as an extra in Rookie of the Year (1993) at Wrigley Field. There were probably a few hundred of us, and they just kept moving us to wherever the cameras were pointing.

There was just one scene that required an actual stadium full of people, and they shot that between games of a Cubs/Cardinals doubleheader.

[xizor]

@Wheelz

There was just one scene that required an actual stadium full of people, and they shot that between games of a Cubs/Cardinals doubleheader.

I went to a Detroit Tigers game as a kid in 1983 and before the game started they filmed portions of Tiger Town. I remember the stadium announcer getting the crowd to make noise by telling us to cheer loud enough to hear your own voice during the movie

[Dinsdale]

I recently binged Friday Night Lights, and read that they set many of the game scenes at an actual HS. Used the same colors and (IIRC) same team name. So they were able to film crowd shots at actual games.

Crowd scenes often take me out of a movie. Either there aren’t enough people and the empty seats are obvious and distracting (to me), or as in BoRhap, it so obviously HAS to be CGI, that THAT takes me out of it.