Since the “Pitch Perfect” movie trailer premiered over the summer and cleared the million- viewer mark on YouTube, familiar places on campus have been filling screens across the country. It’s one thing to navigate around a building everyday on the way to class, but it’s another to see shiny-haired Giuliana Rancic introduce it on the tail end of a celebrity hookup report. The movie transforms LSU into Barton University, a fictional New England college that looks more like Harvard than the home of the Tigers. The experience has been especially exciting for students like Adam Gilbert, education junior, who had the opportunity to act in the movie. “It was really cool getting to be in a movie first of all,” Gilbert said. “It made it much cooler that I got to do it at LSU.” Gilbert can be seen in the “Riff Off” scene, filmed in the barely-recognizable, cleaned-up pool within the Huey P. Long Fieldhouse. Gil- bert said the pool was cleared of debris and scrubbed days before the shoot to appear camera-ready. A preview clip of the “Riff Off” hit the Internet in mid-August and soon went viral, racking up thou- sands of views in just a few days. The Greek Theatre and Huey P. Long Fieldhouse are just two of the many locations on campus getting the Hollywood treatment. Here’s a breakdown of some familiar spots shown in the trailer.
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