Sony Studios Tour...then on to MVAT

What a day…. What a set of emotions! I’m mostly referring to the dinner with the MVAT Foundation at Mountaingate Golf Club. But, let me start earlier in the day…

Jerry and Brent left early for their tournament while Bonnie came and picked me up for a private tour (well, with 20 of our closets friends...lol) at Sony Studios. Boy… such history at the movie studios…. So many films, television shows, etc. We walked for about 90 minutes throughout the buildings. Interesting, but, a little lacking; I think our tour guide probably had a lot to do with that. I think those guides don’t realize they can make or break an experience. Did see, for example, where the ‘school house’ was that taught the young stars back in the 40s and 50s… Now it’s an office building…. Also, saw where the stars use to stay… a smallish building with apartments…. Back in the day, they didn’t have the ‘trailers’ that stars stay in now. It too is now offices. My point being, we saw lots of buildings….PLUS… when we did get to some interesting stuff, NO PHOTOS ALLOWED…. Grrrrr…Hard for Ms Jean to handle. Saw all the Oscars that the studio (before and after it was Sony) had won… and NO PHOTOS…. Didn’t realize Adam Sandler has a offices there for his production company… and Sony gets first choice on his stuff. Learned about the sounds in shows… scoring music…that sorta thing. Didn’t get to see any of it in action! Did get to see where Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are filmed; only cuz they weren’t filming. Got a cute shot of Bonnie behind a contestant’s podium! Many of the areas on the whole lot are still used today to create scenes in movies/television shows, a lot of film a tiny bit… stop the scene… change the props… and start the scene up again…from where they left off… etc… etc… Filming does take patience! Bonnie and I came back to the hotel, changed and spiffed ourselves up, and off we went to meet Jerry and Brent, and Julie and Conrado (Jerry’s sis and dear B-I-L) at the Reception, Auction, Dinner, Program and Flyover at Mountaingate.

I’ll continue this in the next entry…