Day 8- 01/13/2020

Today learning wise was such an experience! To begin our learning journey today we headed to the Sony creative center to take a prop/ stage tour and then we had a presentation with Tony Saccoccio, the VP of Production and a few of his team members, including Devin and MJ, the editors, and Adrian, who is also a producer. On the tour, it was a once in a lifetime experience! The props that we saw were all from our favorite movies and television shows and was neat to see them in person! The lots were another thing to excite me personally! It was awesome to be on a hot set because we were able to see what the actors work with while shooting! The set design work was intriguing because since we are 2020 now, but the scene is set in the 1980s the designers needed to get the perfect props for the scene to make it feel like the person watching is also in the ’80s. (Room not pictured)

    

The presentation was also something that caught my attention! I really enjoyed the piece on the episodic promos from Devin! This was interesting because I know from experience that I will be scrolling through social media and see a promo from a new show or movie and find myself watching it if whatever the promo is about catches my eye. It was cool to see the breakdown of that and their process of what to chose for these promos. I also found it interesting that they make these promos for the following days after the episode airs because it allows people who missed the episode or haven’t watched the show yet, get an idea of what it’s about and can catch up! This helps with the broadcasting degree because you never know when you’re going to have to edit up something. They told us that it is very important to know all the tricks of the trade!


The next place we went to was Technicolor! At Technicolor, we met up with Chris Donovan and Helena Hall. While on this in-depth tour we listened to Jake, an editor, and then we went downstairs to see David, a color corrector, and lastly some VFX things. To start, Jake went through and showed us some technical stuff with editing. First, he went over the basics of importing the materials needed for editing. He taught us about split screening and what that does for production. This is important for broadcasting and film because it allows for if one of the actors doesn't do as well as another that they can split-screen them and it won't take that many takes for them to become in sync or masked together. When we went down to David's workspace this was like walking into a whole new world.


David showed us how color correcting works and all of the stuff you can do with it. The most interesting piece for me was when he taught us about how certain shows have a specific color to them. This caught my eye because I never really thought of shows having their colors but the way David explained it, it made a lot of sense. Some shows are more action-based and deep so they're going to need a darker look and color to them meanwhile another show can be a comedy and all happy which means it'll look better with keeping the scenes lighter in color. Lastly, we headed over to watch a VFX presentation. VFX is another term for visual effects, and has a lot to do in the movies and television industry! For instance, if someone needs to play an older role than what they are in real life, this can be difficult on the makeup artist to make them look 30 years older without making it look too fake, so they take the shots that-that actor/actress is in and modifies their skin to seem likes its aged. This is important to learn for this degree because you never know when you might get asked to color correct or need to make someone look older or younger or many other things that can be CGI'd.