1/21/20

 Today is the last day in California and boy, has it been one amazing experience. We got to tour places and meet people I never thought I'd have the opportunity to do. To end this class off we had the pleasure of meeting Scott Williams, writer of the show NCIS. Scott was kind enough to let us tour the set of NCIS and give us some background of the show and how it's like to be on set, apart of the crew. He mentioned it's like working with family and that he's so happy going to work everyday. Which is something so amazing to hear because after being on the show for quite some time, I'd think it's important to feel happy and fun where you work. Being able to hear Scott's perspective as a writer intrigued me and made me think about writing more and getting involved in that part of the film world. As a writer Scott told us he works better when it's quiet and in solitude. He needs focus and not much distraction. He will even collaborate with actors/actresses to better suit the actor/actress to the character. NCIS is about a team at the Navel Criminal Investigative Services getting to the bottom of murder cases and terrorism cases. First airing in 2003, Scott starting writing for NCIS in 2011. Prior to NCIS, Scott worked on Television show's Castle, Bones, Miami Medical, Third Watch, and many more. First starting out as an aspiring actor, Scott transitioned to writing and soon found love and passion for that. A big take away from talking with Scott would be that you should not give up what you want to do, no matter what's going on in life. Keep focused on what you're there for and go out and look and you will find! This world is competitive and aggressive but if you don't lose sight in what you want then you have potential to reach that destination. Scott never gave up acting, until he realized he had other strengths and love for writing, which got him to where he is today. Thank you Scott, for reminding me to stay determined and keep that drive that got me out there on this trip in the first place.

After visiting with Scott, the group and I visited former Tc3 student Asa Fox. Asa work's as a colorist at Encore. Asa walked us through the importance of color correcting a film or music video and how he would go about doing that. With a little to no help from the director sometime's Asa is asked to color the film how he'd like it. Other time's the director is sitting next to him telling him what he'd like to see. Asa has worked on music videos for Vance Joy, Kehlani, Lil Yachty, along with feature films and TV series. Asa also taught us most camera's will shoot in LOG so that colorists can do the most in post production when editing with color. LOG is a faded look to the image so that the blacks and whites don't get over exposed when messing around in post. I think I'd like to also learn the software that Asa and his teammates mentioned called Da Vinci Resolve. Then if I get into color correcting a lot maybe one day I will learn base light, the more expensive software.

Thank you Asa and the team at Encore and thank you Scott for familiarizing me with different parts of pre-production and post production I didn't know much on!