By Chris Considine
Special to Altadenablog
The long-running original CSI (Las Vegas) has been shooting at our famed Mountain View Cemetery this week. A massive union production team of over 120 people transformed a big section of this historic cemetery into a crime scene Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week.
It’s great to see Los Angeles people working steadily right here in Altadena, and not being undercut by runaway production to other states or our nemesis location of British Columbia, Canada. Amazing to watch all the vehicles, lighting crews, set designers, writers, PA’s, generators, aircraft handlers, camera operators, sound people, caterers, and the like, working hard to make the deadlines and to keep the show on budget. And it’s easy to see that CSI has a BIG BUDGET for production.
I don’t want to give away what I witnessed, because after all, it is a police drama with great writing that relies on surprise endings and twists to get those high ratings year after year. I learned also that the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum are used for filming and TV production about 150 days a year! That’s a lot of shooting and a lot of jobs and income for both the location and the County, so let’s hope that continues.
Special to Altadenablog
Altadena continues to host productions of the most popular TV show episodes in the world.
The long-running original CSI (Las Vegas) has been shooting at our famed Mountain View Cemetery this week. A massive union production team of over 120 people transformed a big section of this historic cemetery into a crime scene Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week.
A huge grid was constructed in an archeological fashion, while on Monday the pyro-crew went to work on some vehicles on the scene. I wish I had been there for that part of the show, but did wander around in amazement at the number of people that it takes for a production of this magnitude on Wednesday.
It’s great to see Los Angeles people working steadily right here in Altadena, and not being undercut by runaway production to other states or our nemesis location of British Columbia, Canada. Amazing to watch all the vehicles, lighting crews, set designers, writers, PA’s, generators, aircraft handlers, camera operators, sound people, caterers, and the like, working hard to make the deadlines and to keep the show on budget. And it’s easy to see that CSI has a BIG BUDGET for production.
I don’t want to give away what I witnessed, because after all, it is a police drama with great writing that relies on surprise endings and twists to get those high ratings year after year. I learned also that the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum are used for filming and TV production about 150 days a year! That’s a lot of shooting and a lot of jobs and income for both the location and the County, so let’s hope that continues.
