A True Behind the Scenes

 This last week I went on a field trip for a tv production competition. There first day there, we got to go on a studio tour of paramount studios, which was a really awesome experience. We got a behind the scenes look at the place where so many of the most famous movies were made. We also got to learn many different things about the production of movies.

EVERYTHING IS FAKE

Okay we all already knew that everything about Hollywood is fake. However it can be surprising the extend of just how fake some things are. 

Do you know what Star Trek, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Truman Show have in common? 

They were all filmed in a PARKING LOT

This the Paramount's B Tank, and it is literally used as a parking lot when it isn't full of water. Another fun fact we learned is that they only added a fake sky because California's actual sky looks too perfect.

I love this fact about many movies, it shows how much of movies are faked, and how nothing you see on the big screen is real. 

Here's another example: soundstages

If there is a movie scene that takes place indoors, there's a 99 percent chance it was made in one of these. These massive rooms are almost completely silent because of it's insulation on the walls, and the construct entire rooms in here for movies. We weren't allowed to take pictures of the soundstages from the outside due to confidential unreleased film stuff (Marvel was supposedly filming in one), but you can kind of see the outside in this photo where I tried to recreate the Pink Floyd cover art.

I'd say we did a decent job recreating the picture.