There’s a new show this fall starring Walton Goggins as a newly widowed father. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_(TV_series) In the promo pic I saw, he is clearly wearing a soccer referee uniform.
Found the pic, it could just be a really awful polo. https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/...ces-walton-goggins-comedy-for-2019-20-season/
So the costume department isn't doing their best work. When I was in a movie, I provided my own costume. The costume people took my picture, in costume, probably so they could take credit for doing a great job. ("Restless" was the movie. I was on screen, in the final cut, for approximately one second, which was about how long it was in the theaters. Gus Van Sant was the director, Ron Howard was the producer. A total turkey. Boy meets girl, girl doesn't tell him she's dying, girl dies, boy is sad. I don't think anybody has funded another movie by Van Sant )
The reason they took your picture is for continuity.... To make sure you look EXACTLY the same for each set or take . It would look silly if you had one uniform on for part of the scene and a variation later...
Lighten up guys. He’s holding the flag because he’s trying to recruit a parent as a CAR. And he has the whistle around his neck to free up his hands before the game (he’s just afraid it would fall out of his pocket).
Exactly. It’s the “triple triad”- there are three referees- and each is simultaneously CR and both AR’s.
My recollection is that they said something to the effect that they wanted it for their resume book. You may be right though. We spent half a day on this scene. The first third was kids playing and my being out there with them, but we had to keep play in the center of the field and I couldn't use my whistle, while the two leads sat in the stands and talked meaningfully. Then the rec kids left and I spent a couple of hours doing the same scene over and over, with me standing on my mark, in which the female lead yells at me "Ref, your mother eats babies!" I then turned 90 degrees and gave her "the look." She was supposed to giggle and the male lead is supposed to be shocked that she'd say such a thing. Most of the time, I was off camera, just providing them the chance to react to me. The whole thing ended up on the cutting room floor. I got the princely sum of $49. My assignor was in an earlier scene as the "snack table lady," but her scene was cut too.
After reading Law5's experience, I think I have it figured out. Wardrobe/props has a picture of a ref for continuity. They decided he needed a whistle, so they took the picture of him with a whistle on a lanyard. Now next scene, when he's an AR, they come back and say, "Wait a minute, he needs his whistle for continuity."