A Very Eventful Day

Our day today started with brunch with Michael Kehoe. Michael has directed, acted, produced, and was crew for several different films. Two of his most known would be Hush, and The Hatred. He was kind enough to give us advice on working in the industry, and answered our questions. What I found interesting about Michael is that he started out doing theatre in highschool and developed skills of a writer and producer in doing so. He wrote a play, would build set in his free time, got athletes to be in the play to sell tickets, and even performed the play for a second weekend. Our next stop was Paramount for a tour. At paramount we saw a ton of different lots and stages. My personal favorite was the New York City set. The buildings and road looked completely identical to the city! They shot scenes from one of my favorite childhood TV shows there; Everybody Hates Chris. Funny enough, we also went onto the Dr. Phil set again. We also went into a room with movie props and I took a picture inside the USS Enterprise Turbolift from Star Trek Beyond. Later tonight we went to the American Legion in Hollywood to watch a version of Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush, that was nearly twice in length to the original and the movie was hysterical! Afterwards when we were waiting for a tour of the projection room we saw the bar from the scene in The Shining, when Jack talks to the bartender that's not really there. Following this we toured the the projection room. In our era of digital media its often thought that using film is archaic and outdated, however this isn't further from the truth. When talking to the men running the projectors we talked about how film is always taken into account when making films due to aspect ratio especially when making IMAX films. As the day was coming to an end and we were walking towards the van others ahead of me were gasping. I didn't anything of it at first, but once I saw the door to van my heart dropped... the window was broken and my backpack was missing! After a while of panicking we went back the hotel and Dr. Xaver and I went to the police department and filed out reports. We made friends with one of the officers and they were extremely friendly and took care of us. We ended up talking for nearly 3 hours! So although I unfortunately lost my laptop, it didn't take away from an amazing day and a great experience.