Day 11: Mark Needs His Own Show

1/16/20, Today we all piled into the car and drove through the mountains to Malibu. There we went to the Creative Vision Foundation. This company promotes world changing ideas through the use of media. They essentially try to make the world a better place through art, music, film, or a combination of those and other mediums. The company was founded by Amy and Kathy Eldon who's son Dan lost in life in Somalia as a war photographer. After these events his family created this foundation to promote Dan's ideas. We had watched the documentary about him in class and written letters to his mom and sister so meeting them in real life was strange in a way. Meeting someone that you sort of share this connection with for the first time is always odd but greatly rewarding. After that we drove up along the coast line to get back to the CBS lot for our final taping. This time the show was called Carol's Second Act. Again it was a sitcom so just not my sense of humor. But it was the same comedian keeping us entertained as Mom. Mark had me dying from 90% of his lines. He really needs his own show. In terms of what I learned from the set, I definitely noticed more cameras moving around in this one. I paid more attention to what the focus puller was doing after meeting Symon Mink twice on this trip. It wasn't as smooth of a taping as Last Man Standing but it went very fast despite many rewrites.