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Can Travolta bring hope to the forgotten ghettoes? - Independent

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Opinions were split about the new status of Les Bousquets as a film location. Hymed, 24, whose family is from Mauritius, said: "I'm for it. …

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Paul Newman: a life in film, cars and charity - guardian.co.uk

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the Tom Hanks' film Road to Perdition, was suited to his talents. It was a sprawling story, a complex role and a huge box office and critical success. …
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    • Paul Newman | The Journal of H.M.S. Impossible

    My shipwright friend Woody was working as technical hand on a film they were shooting up outside of Damariscotta Maine, a place they call New Harbor. To some location scout, it looked like the North Carolina setting of the movie they were filming, Message in a Bottle. (They eventually moved production to Wilmington NC.)

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    Filming Is Slow in Los Angeles

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    Los Angeles Times | Entertainment | Major studio film shoots in Los Angeles grind almost to a halt | Production was ramped up in anticipation of a possible actors strike, with most big-budget movies for next year wrapping by June 30. | By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    August 26, 2008 | via LocationTalk

    “If not for an epic struggle between alien robots, the streets of Los Angeles might be devoid of major studio drama.

    Filming of big-budget movies has ground to a virtual halt across the city and much of the county, a slowdown partly driven by scheduling decisions studios made a year ago to prepare for a possible actors strike.”

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    Record Filming in LA Q2 2008

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    RedOrbit: Filming Hits High Record: L.A. Shoots in Q2 Surge After Writers Strike. | Posted on: Saturday, 19 July 2008, 00:00 CDT | By Troy Anderson | LA Daily News

    “After a lull caused by the 100-day screenwriters strike — and amid new uncertainties about an actors contract — filming in Los Angeles surged 26 percent last quarter to a record high for the period, officials said Thursday.”

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    Fire Destroys Hollywood Location Landmark

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    JAMESTOWN, CA - “A landmark house near Jamestown, once lived in by movie stars, was destroyed by a mysterious fire Friday morning…

    …The house is known as “Big Whiskey,” so named by actor Clint Eastwood when he stayed there for a year during the filming of “The Unforgiven” in the Jamestown area. The film released in 1992 became a western classic…”

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    …Actors Unions Contracts

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    …via Wall Street Journal…

    Actors Union Approves Pact With Producers
    By LAUREN A.E. SCHUKER
    July 9, 2008; Page B8

    “Members of Hollywood actors unions approved a new three-year contract in a vote that was closely watched in Hollywood as an indication of whether the larger Screen Actors Guild will be able to continue pressing for a better deal in its own contentious labor talks with film and television producers.”

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    links for 2008-06-19

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    Melody Ranch Film Location

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    Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio | Newhall, CA

    “Since 1915, when the studio was first opened for business, an endless string of hard riding shoot-em-ups have been produced at this location. Monogram Studios made 750 “B” westerns before selling the ranch to singing cowboy Gene Autry in 1952. Legendary cowboy actors, including William S. Hart, Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Bill Boyd, and John Wayne filmed their westerns here until 1962 when a fire swept through Placerita Canyon destroying the main western street.”

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    The website for this piece of entertainment history has lots of photos of areas available for filming. The ranch is most famous to many people as belonging to Gene Autry, “The Singing Cowboy”. Currently, Melody Ranch is part of Veluzat Motion Picture Studios, owned by Andre Veluzat and Renaud Veluzat.

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    SAG / AFTRA Contract Negotiations

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    AFTRA Leaves SAG in the Spotlight - E! Online | 12:35 PM PDT | by Natalie Finn

    “AFTRA is willing to play second fiddle, for now. The American Federation of TV and Radio Artists said Wednesday it would put off studio contract negotiations, scheduled to begin April 28, until May 5 to give the Screen Actors Guild more time to hammer out a new deal.”

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    links for 2008-04-16

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    Location Scouting - Article - Stumped?

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    Stumped At the Video Store | The Complete Guide to Location Scouting: Manhattan Edition with John Fedynich | by Chris Neumer; e-mail Chris

    Location Scouting - Article - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, filmakers, and more.

    “It takes a lot more than one might imagine to secure locations and shoot in New York City. Veteran location manager, John Fedynich, takes Chris Neumer on his own location scouting expedition and together the two find the perfect Manhattan alley, stumble into some intriguing neighborhoods and deal with unexpected problems. After this article, you’ll never look at that Fifth Avenue setting in the same way again.”

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    This is a wonderful article that someone added as an external link somewhere along the way to the Wikipedia Location Scouting article

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    Links for April 8th

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    These are my del.icio.us links for April 8th:


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    RIP Roy Scheider

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    Gothamist | Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75 | By Jen Carlson | February 11th, 2008

    “Actor Roy Scheider died yesterday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, after battling multiple myeloma for several years and suffering complications from a staph infection. He was 75…”

    “Scheider may be best known for his role as Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws.”

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    Strike Over

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    The WGA Writers Strike is officially over, as reported by The Economist:

    “Was it worth it? Writers lost about $260m in earnings, according to Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, and other people employed in the TV and film business missed out on $440m. The media firms also needed a deal: had the strike gone on for five months or more, it would have hurt them badly. Their broadcast-television units suffered the most. Nielsen, a ratings firm, found that for the first week of the 2008 TV season, audiences were 21% lower than last year.

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    Now we can all bite our nails waiting for the Screen Actors Guild contract to expire next June

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    Minor Talent / NY / Child Labor Laws

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    In New York (as well as most, if not all, states), there are specific requirements regarding use of children as performers / actors / models / talent.

    I had to contact the New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcast (MOFTB) for this info. Here is the New York State Department of Labor web page they directed me to.

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    Set Photos From A Clockwork Orange

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    Coudal Partners | Kubrick Page | Set Photos From A Clockwork Orange | photos found on malcommcdowell.net

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    Nightmare in a Damaged Brain 1981 Review 4 Jul 2009, 8:52 pm

    … locations between New York and Florida), the film was designed to be an extreme and confrontational piece, commenting on forced conformity in much the same way that Stanley Kubrick had done a decade earlier with A Clockwork Orange. …
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    Cinedelica: The Damned (1963) at the NFT reviewed 4 Jul 2009, 8:52 pm

    … the despicable but psychologically flawed thug to perfection, evoking an atmosphere that would have to wait a good few years to make its reappearance in films I prefer to call the 'Violence 2000' genre, like 'A Clockwork Orange'. …
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    A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess: After having numerous people recommend it to me, and hearing about it quite a bit, I picked it up. I finished this book, and it was delightful! It was real horrorshow. I loved the invented slang. …
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    Upon entering, you first encounter an eerily glowing purple wall straight from "A Clockwork Orange." One turn takes you down a pitch-black corridor with trompe-l'oeil mirrors that seem to lead to rooms that don't exist. …
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    My Favorite Short Film This Week

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    Videology-TV | From The Devil Himself | Viva Voce

    I hit pay dirt when Jo Van Hove sent me a heads-up that a there was a really kewl vid that had used a Locamundo location on Videology-TV!

    Videology-TV is not a huge site, I am only seeing twenty videos on the “videos” page. I like to think I have a pretty discerning eye; to find two out of twenty that I really like seems like a pretty good batting average!

    In any case, I started surfing around Videology-tv and found From The Devil Himself by Viva Voce, directed by Moh Azima which is what this post is all about, so I guess if you read my website at all you might say I am “into” music videos lately!

    I do realize I am risking diluting the “focus” of my website reviewing all these films lately, but it does, in fact, all have to do with location scouting and film production. If you work in the creative end of film production like I do I think you would know what I meant if I said, “I don’t watch films like ‘normal’ people do”, in fact, its a bus man’s holiday of sorts- I am always looking closely at the locations, lighting, camera angles used, lensing, directorial and actor’s techniques so-on and so forth, so, after I get finished being entertained picking something apart technically if I can still say I was entertained for the sake of being entertained, it was a good day! ;-)

    Ok. so here you have it, retro done right ;-) From The Devil Himself by Viva Voce:

    About Viva Voce | THE (EXHAUSTIVE AND UNABRIDGED) LONG & WINDING STORY THUSFAR:

    “Kevin & Anita Robinson make the sounds.

    The sounds (Vee-vah-VOH-chay) are Italian for “word of mouth” and prophetically prove many would neither be able to spell or prounounce the name.

    Viva Voce indeed.”

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    “Around 1995, television started to become really boring. This had dire repercussions for the music video industry.”

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    Performers, Unions and Advertising Industry Tentatively Agree

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    Performers’ Unions and Advertising Industry Tentatively Agree on Two-Year Extension of Commercials Contracts
    “Joint Study to be Conducted Over Next Two Years

    New York and Los Angeles (August 4, 2006) – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the advertising industry’s ANA/AAAA Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent Union Relations (JPC) today announced a tentative agreement on a two-year extension to the Commercials Contracts that cover advertisements appearing on TV, radio, the Internet and new media, that would run through October 29, 2008. The extension agreement must now be ratified by both unions’ joint national board and approved by both union memberships through a joint referendum, as well as approved by the boards of both ANA and AAAA.”

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    Movie Maker Magazine Article

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    Note: The following is a draft of “Securing A Great Location”, published in Moviemaker Magazine’s 2005 Beginner’s Guide To Making Movies

    MovieMaker Magazine | Securing a Great Location | By © R. Richard Hobbs 2004

    Chances are, before too much time goes by, you, as a film maker, will be forced to reckon with venturing out of the cozy, controllable confines of a studio/soundstage and into that great wild beyond known as a location.

    If you are a director, your job, (among a plethora of other tasks, of course!), is to think of creative ways to bring a story to life visually.

    If, like me, you are a part of the locations department (location scout and/or location manager), your job is to help the creative team toward this end, and while hopefully thinking equally as creatively and presenting actual real-world location possibilities, at the same time you are obligated to pay quite a bit more attention to the practicality, logistics and nuts and bolts of actually pulling the shot off at the location(s) you might suggest and following up on same.

    Depending on your budget and/or method of working, even though your title may be Director, Assistant Director, Production Manager or even Executive Producer, you may be required to deal with some of the issues yourself that by rights are normally the Locations Department’s; in any case a little “cross-training ;-) ” and insight into what some of the other crew does cant be any less than a good thing!

    All this said, my story will attempt to offer some useful information toward securing the perfect location from the locations department’s point of view.

    As mentioned before, (the aesthetics aspects notwithstanding), there are a number of practical aspects to consider when choosing a location. What follows is by no means complete, but here are a few items in no special order:

    Does the location you are considering work from all technical & logistical points of view? Some questions to ask yourself:

    Where will I put all those trucks and people?

    Is there room for (if not normally legal, then permitted) parking? It is imperative that you or someone from your crew scout the area adjacent to the set beforehand to make sure there is room and to be sure that room is not in front of a hydrant, fire department or bus stop, etc.

    If parking is “tight “ (in high demand) you need to be sure that parking will in fact exist when your crew arrives! Having a permit to park there is one thing, actually “owning” the parking space(s) is another! (As we all know possession is 99% of the law;-)

    In New York City (where I work) there are specialists called Parking Coordinators or Coneheads (for the orange cones they put out). Hire them.

    You need to be sure you can meet the electrical requirements of your shoot. Be sure there is sufficient house power or you can get your genny truck close enough, and be sure you have sufficient electrical cable in any case!

    Is there holding? (a comfortable place to “hold” people while they are not on set) If you are using SAG actors, a requirement is that they have a separate, private area for changing clothes. Be sure there is air conditioning or heat if the weather requires it!

    Does the location work logistically?

    Be careful with scheduling! If you are shooting a scene on one side of town in the morning and it takes an hour to drive to the second set, another hour to set up and then an hour of shooting, you are probably already into meal penalties. Try to find locations close to each other when scheduling scenes to be shot/ talent on call on the same day.

    Is there room to work?

    The most gorgeous room in the world is useless is there is not enough room to get the camera/dolly/lights/actors in there for the angles needed to make the shot.

    What if it rains?

    Do you have a “Plan B” in your pocket? Be careful with weather and cancellations of locations, talent and equipment. It can get expensive.

    Is there light there?

    Is there the correct lighting for the mood you are trying to achieve (or can you make it?) A location can look significantly different on a cloudy day from the day you scouted it and there was daylight streaming thru the branches casting patterns on the ground!

    Are you absolutely sure you have permission to be there?

    Does the owner understand that it won’t just be someone with a camcorder stopping by for a few moments? We become so used to our own world that it sometimes ceases to occur to us that people outside the film industry most often have (or have any reason to have an) inkling about what is actually involved in making a film. You need to be straightforward and accurate about all those trucks, equipment and people that will be showing up for 12-14 hours.

    You should have also prepared in advance a synopsis of the story and the specific scene(s) you are shooting and explain this in detail to the owner. Sure, we love our story, but everybody has their own views and what seems perfectly normal to us may seem controversial or blatantly offensive to someone else (for no apparent reason to us) yet it is they that will have to live with being associated with the film. This is a very large, diverse, very politically correct world we live in today!

    You should always use a property release form and get it signed by the location owner. A property release, in a nutshell, is written permission for you to depict a property to the public on film. Without it, you may leave yourself open to claims of invasion of privacy or other damages. Just do a Google for “property release”, there are standard forms around you can use.

    You should always find out beforehand if there are any local or municipal permits or fees required where you are filming and comply fully with those requirements. A local film office, the city clerk or police department for a given municipality should be able to tell you what, if any filming permit requirements may exist.

    Q: What could suck worse than finding out you don’t have time or money for a permit? A: Getting your production shut down in mid-shoot because you don’t have a permit.

    There a few other general suggestions I might offer that may help you in your quest for the perfect location:

    Never underestimate the power of a film office!

    Local film offices are some of the most underutilized FREE resources available to film makers. A film commission can get you “in” places you could never touch on your own. They have the credibility of being associated with government plus can be an advocate for your project! They can be a godsend if you are filming outside your home turf- They most often have listings of local crew and location ideas for you. They know the local customs and any permit requirements that may exist! Be nice to film offices!

    If you want to find out if there is a film office in your area try here first: www.afci.org

    Leave time for permitting/getting permissions

    I can’t begin to tell how many great locations have been aborted (or lost!) because there was insufficient time allowed to get permission or secure permits. This malady seems to especially afflict film makers just starting out for some reason (?).

    Q: Hey, can you get me and my crane on a rooftop in NYC to shoot tonite?

    A: Sorry, ain’t gonna happen, bubba.

    If time is tight one option may be to use a location agency. These are people/companies (often scouts or location managers) that have an archive of existing pictures of locations that have often been previously used (or scouted and not used for one reason or another) Sometimes time can be saved this way, but don’t expect miracles- permissions must still be obtained and fees negotiated on your behalf.

    Do you have insurance?

    I personally won’t go on a shoot or book locations for a production without insurance. You should have a minimum $1,000,000 (standard now actually seems to be $2,000,000) commercial liability policy that allows for additional insurance of third parties. If you are using payroll and have employees then you should have workmen’s comp. Some locations require proof of this.

    Use the right tool for the job!

    You wouldn’t use a screwdriver to drive in a nail (or maybe you would ;-) ! Anyway, hire a location scout/manager! We are there for u!

    Adios, good luck and p.s. please invite me to the Oscar Party!

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    Wikipedia Location Scouting

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    Location Scouting / Wikipedia

    “Location Scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking and commercial photography. Once scriptwriters, producers or directors have decided what general kind of scenery they require for the various parts of their work that is shot outside of the studio, a search is begun for a suitable place or “location” outside the studio. Location scouts will also look for appropriately spectacular or interesting locations beforehand, to have a database of locations in case of requests.

    Location scouts are also often tasked with negotiating legal access to filming locations.”

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  • I also started and regularly contribute to Location Library on Wikipedia
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    Film Scouts Interview - Lawrence Bender / Good Will Hunting

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    Film Scouts Interviews: Lawrence Bender on Good Will Hunting by Henri Behar

    “Remember the blizzard in Manhattan a few years ago? That’s when Good Will Hunting kind of gelled. After the New York Film Critics gave their awards, as the snowstorm raged outside on that night in mid-January, a bunch of stragglers-cum-diehards got stuck at the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street. Among them: Kevin Spacey, Mira Sorvino, directors Ted Demme, Kevin Smith (Clerks) and Quentin Tarantino, as well as Tarantino’s producer-partner Lawrence Bender and Miramax head-honcho Harvey Weinstein.

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    New York University College of Dentistry | News College of Dentistry is Site for Sopranos Shoot (Not the Kind with Bullets)

    “Actor Will Janowitz, who plays Meadow’s dental student boyfriend Finn DeTruillio on The Sopranos, during the shooting of a scene in NYUCD’s simulation lab.

    The College of Dentistry’s high-tech simulation lab where first-and second-year dental students learn clinical skills and decision making before they have actual patient contact- was the site recently of a scene for the HBO hit series, The Sopranos.”

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