So, I was walking to Pratt today to help my friend Carianne out with her website and I noticed an abundance of movie trailers parked outside of the campus. Movie trailers are a fairly common site in my neighborhood, but this was an unusually large amount. The cavalcade of trailers and tents extended not just beyond the campus but several blocks away, filling much of the neighborhood. On campus, the grounds were filled with a number of cranes and dollies and other cinematographic equipment. Along with all of this, the signs on the campus had all been changed to read “Stanford University” and there were potted palm trees everywhere to give the Brooklyn campus a bit more of a more California-y feel.
After helping Carianne out for a bit, we both walked back out onto the campus and went to sit down on the grass. On the way, I asked a tech guy what exactly was going on and he said that they were filming a movie called “Going The Distance.” I immediately went onto IMDB on my phone and found out that the movie starred not only Drew Barrymore but Justin Long and Christina Applegate! Grabbing any opportunity to gawk at celebrities, I went back home, got a blanket and my camera and Carianne and I set up camp on the Pratt campus. After a while, classes got out and summer students began to fill up the lawn.
The first person that people noticed was Justin Long, as he stuck his head out of a window and waved at the crowd down below. Soon after, both he and Drew walked out of the building and onto the campus to join the rest of the crew. The lens on my camera doesn’t extend very far, but luckily, Carianne had a telephoto lens that she let me borrow. I felt a bit like a paparazzo as I frantically tried to capture every moment.
Here are some more photos that I took while being a creepy gawker:
