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Your Property As a Film / Photo / Video Location

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…or… A New York Times Article Every Film Potential Location Property Owner Should Read

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NY Times | Lights! Camera! Ka-Ching! | By VIVIAN S. TOY | Published: July 20, 2008

“NEW YORKERS love to complain about television or film crews that descend on their neighborhoods, gobbling up parking spaces, crowding the sidewalks and generally disrupting daily life.

But some people aren’t complaining. They are the ones who are renting their apartments and houses to those crews, and making $500 to $10,000 a day, depending on the size and duration of a production…”

“…The movie and television production industry is big business in New York City, generating about $5 billion in the local economy each year, according to the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting…”

“…As a final word of caution, Ms. Gordon of AKA Locations said that homeowners often come to the business a bit starry-eyed and that she often tries to lift that veil of fantasy a bit.

“They need to be prepared to be invaded and not expect to make too much money,” she said. “And once you sign on for it, you have to let go and let it happen, because once you let them into your house, they’re not leaving until they’re finished.”

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    Only in New York City!

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    NY Times: One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Lost Masterpiece | By CAROL VOGEL | Published: October 23, 2007

    “It’s hardly a place you would expect to find a $1 million painting.

    But one March morning four years ago, Elizabeth Gibson was on her way to get coffee, as usual, when she spotted a large and colorful abstract canvas nestled between two big garbage bags in front of the Alexandria, an apartment building on the northwest corner of Broadway and 72nd Street in Manhattan.

    “I had a real debate with myself,” said Ms. Gibson, a writer and self-professed Dumpster diver. “I almost left it there because it was so big, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘Why are you taking this back to your crammed apartment?’”

    But, she said, she felt she simply had to have the 38-by-51-inch painting, because “it had a strange power.”

    Art experts would agree with her. As it turns out, the painting was “Three People,” a 1970 canvas by the celebrated 20th-century Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo that was stolen 20 years ago and is the subject of an F.B.I. investigation.

    Experts say the painting — a largely abstract depiction of a man, a woman and an androgynous figure in vibrant purples, oranges and yellows — is in miraculously good condition and worth about $1 million. On Nov. 20 it is to go on the block at Sotheby’s as one of the highlights of a Latin American art auction.”

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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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      title: something good this way comes band: jakob dylan director: josh|xander production: streetgang films label: columbia   “This kind of day has no. […]
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      title: house of cards band: radiohead director: james frost production: zoo film label: xl recordings   “your infastructure will collapse”   — Deli. […]
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      title: any and every band: excepter director: adam egypt mortimer production: adam egypt mortimer label: paw tracks   “take the tour”   — Delivered. […]

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    Location Scout Letter

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    Location Scout letter (Shaughnessy Lodge) on Flickr - Photo Sharing! | Uploaded on November 11, 2005 | by bmann

    “Why the first or second floor? Are they going to jump out of the window?

    This was, by the way, taped to the front door of my apartment building this morning.”

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    Location Scout letter (Shaughnessy Lodge)

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    Law & Order Location Scouting

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    rachelleb.com: Law & Order Location Scouting

    “Thursday night when I came home from work I found this posted outside our apartment building door and there were a bunch more laying inside our door. It’s signed by the Law & Order Location Scout. Full text of the letter:”

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