The Story...
I was in L.A. in January of 2004 and had some time to kill before my
flight departed, so I decided to drive over to Ren-Mar Studios in the
Hollywood area to see if anything was going on there. Well, a few
blocks away from Ren-Mar, a crew from Universal Studios was on location
filming an upcoming episode of the "American Dreams" series. They
were filming at a public pool (pictures above and right), and I heard
the assistant director at one point say something about the setting
being the 4th of July. I tried to look up when this particular
program was aired. From what I was able to determine, it looks
like it was aired March 21, 2004, (Episode 42 "Chasing the Past").
I think the only star from the program that I saw was
Sarah Emily Ramos (Patti
Pryor). There could have been others there from the show, but I
would not have recognized them since I'm not a TV watcher. I was
surprised to see that the director appeared to be one of the youngest
persons on the set. Anyway, I stayed there about an hour and a
half. I love watching movie production work and especially the
camera part of it. I left when the crew broke for lunch.
-Bro Bob |
| The Public pool
can be seen in the background. It was a cool, but sunny
January day when this episode was filmed, but the story setting
was the 4th of July. There were quit a few extras in the
pool and around the pool (brrrr!) The three men associated
with the camera dolly are the Camera Operator, Focus Puller, and
Dolly Grip (left to right). The show's Director and the
Director of Photography were under the blue canopy watching the
video assist monitors (which show the video image that each camera
is capturing). There were actually 3 camera crews on this
location shoot. |
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