Today we started with a full day planned! To start we headed to the California Eatery to have brunch with Michael Kehoe who is a director/ writer! As of right now he is working on the Disney+ streamed show, The Mandalorian and informed us on a lot of the technological side of shooting. He explained that technology has helped out in so many ways and now these actors have the advantage of being able to use an LED Screen that can change depending on what scene they are in to get a feel of what they're acting against instead of being in front of a blank wall. I found this interesting because I always hear of these actors having to use a tennis ball or having to just think that whatever they're shooting with is around them, but now that technology has been improving, its cool to see how successful these new things are working.
After finishing up with Michael Kehoe we then headed to our Paramount Tour! I learned quite a lot while on this tour thanks to our tour guides' Devonte and Nina! One of the many things I found interesting was the blue parking lot. This was interesting to me because they use this parking lot at a water tank to use when they are filming ocean or beach scenes! This tank takes up to 950,000 gallons of water to fill and takes 24 hours to fill and another 24 to pump out the water. This was cool to learn because there are always rumors going around that movies that deal with water are filmed in giant pools like the Titanic but in reality, they built a parking lot just for the movie to fit a life-size titanic boat in it!
Another piece that I really enjoyed from the Paramount Studio Tour was the New York Backlot! The way that it looks made it seem like you were actually walking down the streets of New York. The purpose of this was instead of going to New York every time they were filming something that had to do with the city, they built up their own city in their backyard you could say to fill the void of having to travel back and forth, and it saves them money as well. The detailing of the city was quite fascinating to me! Although it looked as though there were brick buildings filling the streets, it was actually fiberglass sheets that were made and painted to look like bricks. The streets also had that city look as well with the cracking and the dingy looking sidewalks, and the cars during filming also could drive around the streets of this lot because they made such a large set that it makes it look more realistic when they drive around the corners. Lastly, on this tour, I found it cool that in the New York Backlot they made subway stations but at the bottom of the stairs of the station there would be changing spots so that when backgrounds walk down the stairs, they can walk back up them looking like completely different people and it would cost less on the production team!
To end the night we went to a Charlie Chaplin silent film called The Gold Rush! The film was very funny and I would highly recommend to anyone who has not seen this type of film before! After having visited a colorist I focused on the contrasts of the picture and noticed that's truly what the creators had to go off of since it was a black and white film. When the film was over we had the opportunity to go up to the control room of the theater and see how they made this showing possible. They used these very large film cameras that had to have the film on a wheel and placed on the wheel, and after a certain amount of minutes they had to be quick and switch over the film to make the film seem continuous even though it was into different strips.
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