Any press is good press, right? (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) | DUBIOUS HONORS FOR LOCAL LOHAN FLICK | Posted By Sarah Linn | Tue, Jan. 22, 2008
Any press is good press, right? | Will ‘I Know Who Killed Me,’ up for nine shameful Razzies, put a black mark on the county as a filming locale? Promoters don’t seem fazed
“A Lindsay Lohan thriller with a Central Coast connection might have a new claim to fame: 2007’s worst movie…”
“…What’s really important is the experience that the film crew has here before they move on to other projects,” said Jonni Biaggini, Executive Director of the county Visitors & Conference Bureau. “It’s not as critical (that) the film is a box office gangbuster or not.”
A lot of people (as in, perhaps a property owner or a town government) think that just because a movie might stink at the box office, it might affect their ability to secure future work hosting other shoots (and making money…)
Well, you see, it doesnt work like that - in short, supervision of a script is not the location department’s (the part of a production crew in charge of reccommending locations to the assistant director, director and executive producer) the only people with any direct responsibility regarding the script are the writer(s), the executive producer, and director, and what they are looking for in a location is its uniqueness and suitability to the task at hand - they could, for the most part, care less where a location might have been used in a production other than their own- it’s just plain a fallacy to think otherwise. Leave critiquing a film to the film critics and gossip magazine writers and the moviegoers who pay (or don’t) to see a film - the script is just not our problem, nor is the quality of same anything most of us have any control over, so stop worrying!
At the end of the day, the adage, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, was never truer - a good experience (i.e. lots of cooperation, hospitality and other experiences leave people with a good taste in their mouths…) had by the crew can go a long way toward successfully marketing a location. The best advertising is word of mouth and if people say good things about you, they and others will be back.
The article above illustrates everything I have said; it details the success of several areas in central coastal California who are experiencing continued success in attracting film production in spite of the fact that a recent winner of many Razzies was filmed in the vicinity.
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