In this footage posted to YouTube by former stand-in Anne-Marie Wilson, you see a fun second-team rehearsal (i.e., a rehearsal with just the stand-ins) for the film Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
What may be interesting from the perspective of the stand-in is that this rehearsal is for a scene that takes place while on a Segway. The stand-ins do the rehearsal by walking rather than by actually riding on the Segway.
More than likely for the setup of this shot, it was not important for the stand-ins to ride the Segway. Instead, the camera department likely wanted to rehearse simply tracking the movement of the actors — so the stand-ins needed only to follow the path the actors took in first-team rehearsal (i.e., the rehearsal earlier with the principal actors).
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