Holy Cow, I’m In “Untraceable” After All (Photos!)

I was afraid I had died bleeding on the cutting room floor after being chosen as an extra in the movie Untraceable, which was filming in Portland last year when I lived there.

To make a long story short, when I was freelancing for KPTV I was one of many behind-the-scenes and on air personalities who were chosen as extras for the film (Fox 12 features prominently in the movie). I played the role of — what else? — a television photographer and Todd Mansfield played the reporter I was “shooting” at the time.

So naturally, when the movie was released I couldn’t wait to see it, if only for the reason I was in it — and my parents went with me. We were pumped.

Only thing was, the scene I was in was so quick they didn’t see me. Heck, I couldn’t see me either.

After being told by more friends they could not find me in the movie for the life of them, and after having an impromptu conversation about Untraceable with a few of the MSU Lady Bears after in between interviews at a practice session last week — THEN being told by Jason Wert that he couldn’t find me either, I got fed up and bought a copy of the movie to find out for myself if I was truly there or not.

With some good help from VLC Media Player’s slow-playback feature, I scanned the scene I was in very carefully, and with good reason. It taketh a keen eye to find me in the movie, but at long last I found myself and I have screenshots to prove my existence on the silver screen.

Did you see me? Let me back up a few frames, where it is clearer. For reference, I am the far left camera operator. Click the photo below to get a bigger view.

In the above photo, I am the left-most (is that even a word?) on the screen. It’s unmistakably me.

Let’s enhance that image a bit:

Pretty neat, huh? If you want to find me as well, skip to Chapter 8 on the Untraceable DVD, then pause it around the 27:58-28:01 mark (it depends on what DVD player you have and how it interprets it). Be quick about it, because the camera is following a cop car and then ends up focusing on an SUV in the driveway. I’m at the very beginning of that pan shot.

AWESOME.