To start today we had a brunch with Michael Kehoe, a writer and director for movies like The Hatred. Much like the others we've spoken to, we asked questions and listened intently.
Then we zipped on over to Paramount Studios, though instead of just seeing Dr. Phil, we got the studio tour. We got to learn the history of sections of the studio as well as see their rather extensive New York streets set that included many tall buildings that were facades, most of which that we looked at were hollowed out for the most part.
After we sat down and had a nice meal at the Hometown Buffet, it was off to go see Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush in it's current closest to original form in 35mm film. It was accompanied ba a live piano performance and then we had a projector room tour/rundown after. All of which was done by Retroformat at the Hollywood Legion Theater and was very fun to experience thanks to my found appreciation of black&white films through my film analysis class.
In a nutshell here's today's takeaways:
-From Michael, learn to let go of some stuff that is preventing you from working on what you want to do. (His example was choosing to continue working as a waiter, or hope on a film job that would get in the way of that) Also to push yourself out and make connections.
-From Paramount, you can make massive sets that are literally blocks wide and multi purpose them with some relative ease.
-From Retrofirmat, there's still such an incredible love and drive of people for the silent film genre and that there's a lot to learn from Chaplin films for their extremely entertaining value as well as their staying power.
Now normally that would be all but there was one big rattle in our night. Our van we've been traveling in was broken into and one of my peers was robbed and likely only a glance away from more of us having the same. So another lesson learned, or at least a reminder that the world is a tricky place. So we have to be smart about how we handle ourselves and our possessions.
Devin it seems like you learned a lot and had some rewarding experiences today. Thank you for sharing. Photos will always make your blog posts more intriguing to readers, try to always include some to draw people in. Here as I read I really wanted to see some shots of the film sets. They seem so interesting.
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