Six students from Canada’s Capilano College advanced diploma Motion Picture Production program spent a week in Los Angeles making a film on the making of a CSI episode. CSI star William Petersen is a close friend of the manager of Capilano College’s Film Centre, Bill Thumm. The students shared their experience on the CSI set in a daily online production diary.

Film students Jon Ancil, Scott Mainwood, Tom McLeod, Rebecca Nield, Hiroko Oda and Malcolm Oliver spent an amazing week on the set of CSI, filming the filming and interviewing key people involved in the writing, production, acting, editing and scoring of the popular crime drama and also enjoyed dinner at Petersen’s house.

Once on set, the students broke into two teams: one to conduct interviews and one to film the behind the scenes action. Their production diary spans four days and mentions each of their interviews and the excitement they felt being in Hollywood on the famous Universal Studios back lot, where CSI was filming in the western town.

Dinner of pizza and beer at Petersen’s house was definitely a high point of the trip. Petersen was described as “incredibly friendly,” spending a few hours with the students discussing CSI, golf, dogs, politics, TiVo, film versus digital, hiring directors and writers, episodic TV versus serial TV and how people get started in the industry.

Head over to the Capilano College website to read the story and be sure read the students’ production diary.

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