Peter Hawley and Laurie Scheer accompany Flashpoint Academy students to LA to visit the studios, see the sights, and “demystify Hollywood.”

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An excerpt from Peter’s email to the faculty and staff in Chicago:

On Tuesday, day two of the trip, the Flashpoint group spent the day at Sony Studios.  … We had a great meeting with Mike Rizzuto, a post-production executive.  He took us to the scoring stage (recent scores – Up, Angels and Demons and some guy named Spielberg is in there today).  We then went to a foley stage where Flashpoint friend Vince Guisetti (who came to Flashpoint in 2008 to do a professional workshop on our foley stage) was working.  He showed the students his technique and promoted Flashpoint.  “Flashpoint is the only place in the country where you can learn to do what I do.”  He wants to return.

After a tour of the back lot-stages, the Jeopardy set, a P. Diddy sighting [w]e had lunch in a studio commissary.  After lunch … we had a preview screening in an executive screening room of Taking of Pelham 123.  Afterwards we spoke with a q.c. person who viewed the print with us. (He saw dirt where no one else did.)  We talked prints and distribution.

We were at Sony from 9-4pm. From there we went to Santa Monica where students had some free time and we met up with recent grads … who are in L.A. for interviews.  At 8pm we packed up and drove up the Sunset Strip back to our hotel.

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