Day 3 of our tour of Los Angeles saw us hitting the film industry for real, first by making film then visiting our first studio backlot. We travelled the short distance to Burbank first to get a workshop in cinematography from the New York Film Academy, where we learned some of the secrets of of shooting using different lenses and lighting techniques before we got some hands-on experience. Students acted as Camera Operator, 1st and 2nd Camera Assistants and Dolly Grips to shoot a scene featuring the cream of Lancashire's acting talent, including an especially poignant performance from Ryan Hadley.

We then travelled across town to Culver City and the Sony Pictures studio tour. we walked under the worlds largest man-made rainbow, saw both the original and new Ghostbusters vehicles and peered through the bulletholes in the door of Walter White's RV as well as visiting the set of The Goldbergs and Wheel Of Fortune.

On our way back we experienced a must for any visitor to LA - a traffic jam. We spent 90 minutes,in gridlocked traffic being overtaken by pedestrians, but still made it to Universal City Walk in time for our reservation at Bubba Gump's. Full of shrimp and chocolate cake, everyone headed back to the hotel to sleep off the day's exertions and get ready for our trip to Warner bros in the morning.