Emma
10-02-2006, 02:45 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/07.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> It was a warm, August afternoon in Los Angeles when I made my way over to the Sunset-Gower Studios in Hollywood, California to visit the set of "Heroes," the new hit series on NBC. The traffic was bad - as it usually is driving into Hollywood in the middle of the day - but some how I made it without being late, something of a miracle in Southern California.
I was really looking forward to this set visit. For one, it would be the first time I've visited the set of a television show. I've visited a number of film sets around the world and I was really looking forward to seeing how different a television set would be when compared to a film set. As I arrived at Sunset-Gower I learned we'd actually not be staying there and that we'd in fact be headed to a location about 10 minutes away. So, my day would be a bit different than anticipated, but that's OK - much like the show, it's all a big adventure to me. I was also looking forward to meeting Greg Grunberg, best known to television viewers as Special Agent Eric Weiss from the television show "Alias." Greg plays Matt Parkman, a down-on-his-luck LAPD beat cop who begins to hear the thoughts of others, which puts him on the trail of a serial killer. Much to discuss there.
We left the Sunset-Gower studios and after a short drive we arrived at a two-story 1930s era ranch style home at the base of the Hollywood Hills. The location shoot provided an interesting perspective into film making for me. Previously all my set visits have been in large studios or outdoors where you have plenty of room to work. Today, the crew was shooting a scene that found Greg and his wife sharing a meal inside this house. While the house itself would be roomy enough for a four person family, when you throw in an entire shooting crew with all their equipment and five members of the press, it got crowded very quickly. You're constantly bumping into people and tripping over cabling, but everyone made do.
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I was really looking forward to this set visit. For one, it would be the first time I've visited the set of a television show. I've visited a number of film sets around the world and I was really looking forward to seeing how different a television set would be when compared to a film set. As I arrived at Sunset-Gower I learned we'd actually not be staying there and that we'd in fact be headed to a location about 10 minutes away. So, my day would be a bit different than anticipated, but that's OK - much like the show, it's all a big adventure to me. I was also looking forward to meeting Greg Grunberg, best known to television viewers as Special Agent Eric Weiss from the television show "Alias." Greg plays Matt Parkman, a down-on-his-luck LAPD beat cop who begins to hear the thoughts of others, which puts him on the trail of a serial killer. Much to discuss there.
We left the Sunset-Gower studios and after a short drive we arrived at a two-story 1930s era ranch style home at the base of the Hollywood Hills. The location shoot provided an interesting perspective into film making for me. Previously all my set visits have been in large studios or outdoors where you have plenty of room to work. Today, the crew was shooting a scene that found Greg and his wife sharing a meal inside this house. While the house itself would be roomy enough for a four person family, when you throw in an entire shooting crew with all their equipment and five members of the press, it got crowded very quickly. You're constantly bumping into people and tripping over cabling, but everyone made do.
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