High School Musical 2

High School Musical 2 (2007)

Timing: 1:51 (111 min)

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All about film

Video 6

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Actors and characters

Release date

2007-08-17

Country

United States

Production

Salty Pictures, First Street Films, Disney Channel

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance, TV Movie

Budget

$7 000 000

Revenue

$0

Website

http://www.disneychannel.com/highschoolmusical2

Director

Kenny Ortega

Actors

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Olesya Rulin, Chris Warren, Monique Coleman, Ryne Sanborn, Kaycee Stroh
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Don Schain, Bill Borden, Kenny Ortega, Barry Rosenbush

Operator

Daniel Aranyó

Composer

David Lawrence

Artist

Audition

Natalie Hart, Jason La Padura, Jeff Johnson

Editing

Seth Flaum, Shauna Miller Schain
All team (30)

• Each song used in the film was rewritten at least 5 times.
• Filming the scene to the song “Bet On It” took six days.
• Here, Zac Efron sings himself, unlike the first film (Kenny Ortega, 2006), where Andrew Seeley often sang for him.
• Before filming this movie, Monica Coleman couldn't swim and was afraid of water. The scene where her character jumps into the pool had to be rewritten so that Corbin Bleu's character jumped with her.
• Whenever an actor hits a golf ball towards the camera with a club, they are actually hitting ping pong balls. This is noticeable in the scene accompanied by “Bet On It,” as the ball Troy hits has no dimples. During the filming of this scene, Zac Efron hit members of the crew and other people several times, not to mention the equipment. If those had been real golf balls, people could have been injured and the filming equipment could have been broken.
• To give the schoolyard a more “spring-like” appearance, the grass had to be painted bright green.
• The group of people doing “the wave” to the sound of “What Time Is It” included the film’s cast, dancers, and director Kenny Ortega. The actors and dancers were already tired from countless rehearsals, so they sat on the floor and started giving each other massages. When Ortega saw this, he asked everyone to lean to the left (one at a time), and they did. Then he suggested they do the same thing while standing, which they did, and this scene was included in the film during the performance of the first song.
• The actors had three weeks of dance rehearsals before filming began.