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A phrase overused in the film industry, location can mean everything in a film.
Two discussions:
One- Where did it take place?
Name a film and where it supposedly took place or did take place and perhaps where it actually was filmed. Many times what appears to be New York City in the film is actually a set in Los Angeles. This applies to many other locations and places.
Two-Has your town/city/home or a town/city you were visiting taken part in a movie production?
My house has been used a few times in film. I've personally used it in my own work and my friends have as well. You can see a few here
Night of the Living Doll was in my old bedroom in my first home. We had to clear every single item out to make it appear empty. In this film, my friends, his house and mine were both used.
Students from a Los Angeles based film school just two years ago came to my neighborhood looking to use one of the homes. Originally there were three homes that would be used, but they decided to use my house for the entire location. They used the entryway, the backyard and the front yard. A crew set up outside with trucks and things. It was interesting but not my first time seeing a movie being made. The location "scout" as they are called, was the one who found my home in the first place. Itis this person's job to search for a place that will complete the director's vision of a movie. It can be a dream come true job if it means an all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean just to take photos and video to bring back home.
One night around 2am I was taking a walk down one of our adjacent streets, when I saw a bright light shining through the trees. It looked like a UFO. It turned out to be a film crew making a movie, and the bright lights were huge and high above the ground. They shined onto a home's front yard, bright enough to appear to be day time through the camera. I spoke a little to one of the "gaffers" whose job it is to work the lights.
Fairly recently there was a crew in my town around the downtown area. Equipment trucks and catering filled the front of a abandoned super market's parking lot. I walked by and saw them filming.
A few blocks down the street, the television show "24" were filming near a power line field, driving a car in and out of the field.
The location scout from the film school production contacted us recently to ask use of our home again, this time for a Hewlett Packard commercial.
So where were the "location, location, location's" taken place?
Two discussions:
One- Where did it take place?
Name a film and where it supposedly took place or did take place and perhaps where it actually was filmed. Many times what appears to be New York City in the film is actually a set in Los Angeles. This applies to many other locations and places.
Two-Has your town/city/home or a town/city you were visiting taken part in a movie production?
My house has been used a few times in film. I've personally used it in my own work and my friends have as well. You can see a few here
Night of the Living Doll was in my old bedroom in my first home. We had to clear every single item out to make it appear empty. In this film, my friends, his house and mine were both used.
Students from a Los Angeles based film school just two years ago came to my neighborhood looking to use one of the homes. Originally there were three homes that would be used, but they decided to use my house for the entire location. They used the entryway, the backyard and the front yard. A crew set up outside with trucks and things. It was interesting but not my first time seeing a movie being made. The location "scout" as they are called, was the one who found my home in the first place. Itis this person's job to search for a place that will complete the director's vision of a movie. It can be a dream come true job if it means an all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean just to take photos and video to bring back home.
One night around 2am I was taking a walk down one of our adjacent streets, when I saw a bright light shining through the trees. It looked like a UFO. It turned out to be a film crew making a movie, and the bright lights were huge and high above the ground. They shined onto a home's front yard, bright enough to appear to be day time through the camera. I spoke a little to one of the "gaffers" whose job it is to work the lights.
Fairly recently there was a crew in my town around the downtown area. Equipment trucks and catering filled the front of a abandoned super market's parking lot. I walked by and saw them filming.
A few blocks down the street, the television show "24" were filming near a power line field, driving a car in and out of the field.
The location scout from the film school production contacted us recently to ask use of our home again, this time for a Hewlett Packard commercial.
So where were the "location, location, location's" taken place?
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