{"id":316,"date":"2008-06-04T22:55:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T03:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-06-06T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:23:26","slug":"review-of-sony-pictures-studio-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Review of Sony Pictures Movie Studio Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Having planned a couple of extra days to enjoy Los Angeles, I booked a ticket to visit Sony Pictures Studios Tours<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Like most of the movie studio tours, they are not well advertised or marketed.\u00a0 Most people find out about movie studio tours from word-of-mouth or by seeking it out.<\/p>\n

Being a big movie fan myself, it was a high priority for me to check out all the movie studio tours.\u00a0 (I scheduled the Paramount Movie Studio Tour<\/strong><\/a> for the morning but goofed up my schedule and arriving too late.)<\/p>\n

The Sony Pictures Studios Tour<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> located in Culver City, CA costs $28.00.\u00a0 You can purchase tickets online in advance (with a $2.00 fee) or simply make reservations.\u00a0 I did not know I could make reservations until AFTER I had bought tickets online.\u00a0 Because I also wanted to attend the Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour<\/strong><\/a>, it was a bit of a trick to schedule 3 studio tours within a 2-day period.\u00a0 Because of limited availability of the Warner Brothers Deluxe Studio Tour<\/strong> (a 5-hour version of the WB VIP Studio Tour), I was forced to reschedule my tickets with Sony Pictures Studio Tour<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fortunately, the folks at Sony <\/strong>were accommodating.\u00a0 They were able to simply use my same ticket but schedule it for another day.<\/p>\n

The <\/strong>Sony Pictures Studios Tour<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>is a 2-hour walking tour of the old MGM Studios that Sony Pictures bought out.\u00a0 Underground parking is free in the visitor section of the Sony Pictures office building.\u00a0 One of the things you learn early in the tour is how MGM sold off so much of their backlots over the years that what they have left is much smaller than how they started.<\/p>\n

Even with that, there is still plenty of walking to do.\u00a0 I recommend some comfortable walking shoes.\u00a0 They say that no two tours are exactly alike.\u00a0 They attribute this to the fact that every tour guide has a different style and the daily circumstances are such that the tour is designed to be flexible just in case the tour encounters an actual TV or movie production.\u00a0 If that happens, the tour obviously work around these important and well-controlled events.<\/p>\n

On my tour, sound stages had been set on the upcoming movie “Angels & Demons” which is a prequel to the movie and book of the same name “Da Vinci Code”.\u00a0 We also passed by Beyonce Knowle’s trailer and the sound stages for her upcoming movie “Obsessed”.<\/p>\n

I made my first visit to a Foley studio which is where many sound effects are created.\u00a0 We also visited the set and green room of “Jeopardy”.\u00a0 I have to say that Green Room was a bit nasty but the tour guide said it was because a party was thrown a couple of nights earlier and it had not yet been clean.\u00a0 The Green Room is really a green room.\u00a0 Apparently, green is supposed to help calm the nerves of people who will eventually go out on stage.<\/p>\n

We walked through many interesting exterior sets that had real-life workers within the building!\u00a0 Apparently, the designers and architects make the insides of the buildings functional but decorate the outside in such a way to create the illusion you are in a different city or locale.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to give the entire tour away but those were the highlights.\u00a0 My tour guide, Tony, is an aspiring screenwriter and seems to enjoy giving movie studio tours as he looks for his big break.<\/p>\n

Overall, anyone who loves movies and wants to learn more about the behind-the-scenes of movie-making should check out Sony Pictures Studios Tour<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having planned a couple of extra days to enjoy Los Angeles, I booked a ticket to visit Sony Pictures Studios Tours.\u00a0 Like most of the movie studio tours, they are not well advertised or marketed.\u00a0 Most people find out about movie studio tours from word-of-mouth or by seeking it out. 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