Brunch, Paramount, Charlie Chaplin film with a twist
Today at Brunch we got to meet Michael Kehoe. He is a director. It was so interesting g to hear him tell us jaw we can make our way. Since this trip I have been thinking of becoming a colorist. He told me that I would want to talk to a production manager, not just a colorist. He told us a lot about what it's like when he comes up with a story and writes it. It seems like he was born to be a producer. The quote he gave us is the " Cinema world is like high school, but with money." It was really a pleasure to sit with him and have brunch.
After brunch, we went to Paramount for a studio tour. It was so cool to see where they film most water scenes. It's literally in a parking lot, that is painted blue and take 24 hours to fill up and will be 4ft deep. It was also cool to see the New York City backlot, because I thought so many movies were actually shot in NYC but were shot in Hollywood. The backlot was surprisingly huge, and they didn't put door knobs on the doors so depending on the film they could age it up or down. It was also cool to see the outside of the stage named after Lucile Ball, that was right next to Lucile Park. Lucile Park was cool because it's a place she took her kids to play with them while working and how people photograph them together. As well as parks of Lucile Park are put into shows and movies and you'd never even notice, Hollywood magic. It was also really interesting to me that they used a jack hammer to put cracks in the side walk to give it the old 100 and 100 year old New York road look. What's so impressive is you can't even tell anymore what's real and what's not. Also, Paramount is the only Film studio where you can see the Hollywood sings from the lot. I also found it interesting that they don’t have 3 numbers on the lot it say they have 32 stages but they really only have 28. They don’t have the number 22 because they didn’t label it, number 13 because they don’t want an unlucky stage, and the number 10 because it’s now technicolor and they count that as post production and it’s own little building. Hearing trivia like how in God father they had three rules from the Italian civil rights people aka the Mafia during the filming was very interesting and funny to me. The three rules were they can never call themselves the mafia, so that’s why during the movie you hear them say they are family. The second rule was the director had to be Italian American. The third and final rule was two people from the Mafia had to be there while the film was being shot and give the ok on everything that was going on. The cool thing was they ended. up liking the film so much they were in it. So in some scenes it was an actual family gathering. As well as this really changed the tone for the film industry.
Tonight we went and saw the silent film by Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush. The music was so wonderfully done. I haven't laughed so hard during a movie in so long. It is so cool to see how film has changed today. After the film we were fortunate enough to be able to take a tour of the film room. We saw how the film is projected and explained how the film is taken and made into a bigger size if needed. I had so much fun, I really enjoy silent films. But when walking out we walked out to our car being broken into, its something your not use to when in Upstate New York there nobody for miles. But despite that we were still full of jokes and didn't let that get in the way of the great day and night we had!
After brunch, we went to Paramount for a studio tour. It was so cool to see where they film most water scenes. It's literally in a parking lot, that is painted blue and take 24 hours to fill up and will be 4ft deep. It was also cool to see the New York City backlot, because I thought so many movies were actually shot in NYC but were shot in Hollywood. The backlot was surprisingly huge, and they didn't put door knobs on the doors so depending on the film they could age it up or down. It was also cool to see the outside of the stage named after Lucile Ball, that was right next to Lucile Park. Lucile Park was cool because it's a place she took her kids to play with them while working and how people photograph them together. As well as parks of Lucile Park are put into shows and movies and you'd never even notice, Hollywood magic. It was also really interesting to me that they used a jack hammer to put cracks in the side walk to give it the old 100 and 100 year old New York road look. What's so impressive is you can't even tell anymore what's real and what's not. Also, Paramount is the only Film studio where you can see the Hollywood sings from the lot. I also found it interesting that they don’t have 3 numbers on the lot it say they have 32 stages but they really only have 28. They don’t have the number 22 because they didn’t label it, number 13 because they don’t want an unlucky stage, and the number 10 because it’s now technicolor and they count that as post production and it’s own little building. Hearing trivia like how in God father they had three rules from the Italian civil rights people aka the Mafia during the filming was very interesting and funny to me. The three rules were they can never call themselves the mafia, so that’s why during the movie you hear them say they are family. The second rule was the director had to be Italian American. The third and final rule was two people from the Mafia had to be there while the film was being shot and give the ok on everything that was going on. The cool thing was they ended. up liking the film so much they were in it. So in some scenes it was an actual family gathering. As well as this really changed the tone for the film industry.
Tonight we went and saw the silent film by Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush. The music was so wonderfully done. I haven't laughed so hard during a movie in so long. It is so cool to see how film has changed today. After the film we were fortunate enough to be able to take a tour of the film room. We saw how the film is projected and explained how the film is taken and made into a bigger size if needed. I had so much fun, I really enjoy silent films. But when walking out we walked out to our car being broken into, its something your not use to when in Upstate New York there nobody for miles. But despite that we were still full of jokes and didn't let that get in the way of the great day and night we had!
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