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31 Q3 2016 / CINEMONTAGE to Big Brother. "This show helped put me on the map," she says. "It was a real turning point in my career. I'm busy with other shows in the summer, but I try to put this one first. The show is in my blood and I really love working on it." One of the other shows she is working on this summer is Chelsea, a talk show starring comedienne and writer Chelsea Handler that is produced and distributed by Netflix. "This is the first show I intentionally went after," admits Salomon. "When I heard about the show, I ferreted out information about crewing and went after it. I wanted to be on the show since it would be groundbreaking for Netflix — the first time the company has done a studio show with such a fast turnaround. It's close-captioned in 40 languages! It appealed to me because I believe Netflix will be doing a lot more of these style shows — and I want to be a part of them." "I also love Chelsea's sense of humor," she continues. "She expects perfection, which we all do. It's stressful, but I've never laughed so hard at work." To the viewer at home, Chelsea may look like it's easy to cut, according to Salomon, but such is not the case. "The challenge is that I feed the monitors on set that you don't see at home," she explains. "The material is in different sizes and formats, so I'm basically cutting three screens at the same time, using macros." But that challenge is what she loves most about being a TD. "I love the sense of being almost in the middle of the action," she effuses. "I love that all my senses are on high alert when we're taping. I love the adrenaline rush. It's never boring, and that's what I love about my job. The second it's boring, that's my cue to leave — because it means I'm not being challenged." Salomon is also helping to pave a way for the next generation. She says it can be difficult to find a technical director who is willing to mentor a newcomer, since every new TD represents competition. But she doesn't feel that way, and took action when she recently came across a production assistant who had been a TD at a local news station in Miami and was hoping to break back into the profession in Los Angeles. "I've started to refer her for some jobs," adds Salomon. "And I've told her immediately to join the IA. I gave her every lesson that I had learned the hard way." f