(this is a back dated entry from my journal!)
JUNE 7

my visitors badge

Today was the first day on the FOX Lot in Century City (as in 20th Century FOX). Century City was a pretty cool place to be frolicking around because there are a lot of Persians there->and as many of you know I am half Persian (hence my name) so this was pretty exciting to me. Since I'm from the Midwest, I'm not used to seeing Persians in such a dense populous! But there were many shops to go to and many people walking around enjoying the neighborhood. Twas good times.


I was waiting to get checked in by security so that I could park in the visitor's parking lot!

Ron (the sound designer I'm working with) gave me directions he directed me to the main entrance of FOX right off of Motor Dr. Motor drive dead ends @ Fox on one side and dead ends at Sony Pictures at the other end->Anyway, I pulled up to the guard (probably with a little too much excitement) and told him I was there to see Ron. They require photo ID and since I didn't have one I had to explain that my wallet had been stolen and handed him my birth certificate, he looked at it a while and then told me I was at the wrong gate and directed me to where I needed to go…so I frolicked to the visitors gate and again explained to that guard that I didn't have photo ID, handed him my birth certificate and the visitors pass that the other guard gave me but this guy really didn't know what to do with me, so as he inspected my birth certificate I offered to also show him my SS card and he just looked at me funny and let me through.



a sneaky photo of the Star Wars studio building! i wasn't supposed to photograph!

Since I was now ambling from the rear part of the lot I walked past many people and a number of sound stages. All of the large sound stages have HUGE murals on them (i.e. Star Wars, Simpson's, Julie Andrews, etc) I was attempting to look like I was just thumbing through the images on my camera, but I think some industry people caught me red handed as I snagged some quick photos. I then proceeded to peek from a distance into the sound stage with the Simpson's mural and I saw something being shot. It was an interior of a home…that's all I know.


my drive on pass

So when I finally got to the building, it turned out that my Visitor's pass had some incorrect information and they couldn't get in touch with Ron to come down and get me!!! So sadly I missed the voice over recording I was going there to see. BUT, when Ron finally came down and summoned me we still spent the better part of the evening working in the studio there at FOX.-----tangent in…5…4….---OKAY so the most humorous part of this adventure was that I realized, the voice over guys that do the super dramatic trailer and promo stuff…you know the ones with the super deep voices like "There's a new threat in town…and this Thursday, Jack Bauer takes out terrorists like you've never seen him before…" Yeah those guys…apparently they NEVER actually come into the studios. Instead they've got recording equipment at their homes and they're on call!! I asked if these guys are also sound guys and Ron replied, "No they're just Bad Asses!" Hilarious!



ron's sound studio on the FOX LOT

I was sort of happy to see that once you got past the fancy architecturally brilliant exteriors and lobbies of these buildings that the actual office areas are pretty modest. The hallways resembled a very quiet hospital rather an over fashioned super studio! But when you enter the actual work suits….SHOOOT!...they're pretty decked out! I saw the Two Avid suits and the Pro Tools suit & live room that Ron works in!!

All in all it was a pretty sweet experience!! I can't wait to go back next!!