Greetings from sunny Los Angeles! It is CRAZY here! Just like the movies! My hosts Molly and Tracy are really cool. Tracy, a set decorator by trade, is working on a James Franco feature called Zeroville, based on a book that came out a few years ago. I had never heard of it, but apparently it was pretty popular. Anyway, Tracy brought me to set with her and put me to work as a PA, which stands for Production Assistant. It was very exciting, bordering on stressful. In a good way though. I ran around like crazy getting coffees for people, running errands, all the while trying to stay out of the way. We worked 13-hour days which was exhausting, let me tell you. But everyone was really nice. Here's a pic of me sitting in a director's chair in "video village" which is where the director watches the movie being filmed on monitors.
This is a close up of me and the slate. The slate (also called a clapper) is a tool they use during filming at the beginning of every shot--they clap the slate together which makes a loud noise at the exact instant that the colored lines match up-- the editors use this moment as reference so when they are editing the film the soundtrack and visual image will by in sync. I'm learning a lot on this trip so far. Working in movies if fun I would totally do it again.
bye for now!
Coffee
ps Please tell Cameron I miss him!
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