Location Scout + Location Manager R. Richard Hobbs
Here are links to the more-often used pages on the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, Broadcast and Television website. On these pages is lots of info (as well as live forms and instructions) that you need when dealing with MOFTB and New York City film and photo permits
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Tom Edgar: Film School Confidential
“Film School Confidential is a book I co-wrote with a classmate of mine from NYU Film School, Karin Kelly. It is both a guide to the country’s more popular graduate film programs, and a more general instruction manual on choosing a film school, and on how to get the most out of the film school experience.”
Yahoo! Search: book Film School Confidential
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In November / December 2007, I travelled to the Lake Mead, NV area to meet with, along with the rest of Team Q-spheres USA, Jo VanHove and Frans VanDenBemd for an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with and use the Q-spheres digital capture system. During the course of the trip, not only did the American contingent of Team Q-spheres come away with a thorough training in Q-spheres technology and practices, the results of the actual Q-spheres sessions have provided us all with the valuable assets of beautiful lightspheres and backgrounds of the Nevada desert.
(above) Actual low-resolution lightfield of Team Q-spheres USA
Q-spheres training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members
View Q-spheres Nevada Photoset on Flickr
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Mark McKennon and I will be teaching a Location Scouting and Location Management Class at Learning Annex starting in January 2007. I taught this class with Mark once before in 2004.
Right now we are scheduled for three sessions. The first class session is January 16th, 6:45pm, in New York City, NY. All classes will be held in New York City, NY. Class location(s) will be announced by Learning Annex to registered students prior to class.
HERE is the complete class description and registration instructions.
Schedule:
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Actually, this is Bananr running locally and embedded using an iframe.
Here is my Bananr running on bananr.com. You can only display ALL your Flickr photos this way (hey, whatta you want? it’s free) and admittedly your Flickr photos page can do the same thing. (Here’s mine).bananr.com is very simple: Just surf to bananr.com, follow the instructions to retrieve your Flickr i.d. using idgettr and plug it in to the bananr.com form and away you go!There are more options available if you download and install Bananr to your own website.
Bananalbum itself is a skin that needs to be dropped into a local installation of JAlbum (Windows), a free photo album creation program. Bananalbum creates the neccesary files for the web photo album, which you then upload to your website. All these tasks can be completed inside a ruuning copy of JAlbum. If you are using a Mac, look on the Bananalbum website, there is Album Creator for Mac.
There is also a Picasa template available on the Bananalbum website.
With tweaks bananr.com or Bananalbum could be useful to a location scout. Your mileage may vary with your experience as a webmaster.
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From the New Jersey State Film Commission:
New Jersey currently offers these financial incentives to filmmakers, and the US Government has an incentive program as well:
20% TAX CREDIT PROGRAM
New Jersey offers a tax credit in an amount equal to 20% of qualified production expenses, available to production companies meeting certain criteria, chiefly:
(1) At least 60% of the total expenses of a project, exclusive of post-production costs, will be incurred for services performed and goods used or consumed in New Jersey
(2) Principal photography of a project commences within 150 days after the approval of the application for the credit
NEW JERSEY FILM TAX PROCESS GUIDELINES PRINTABLE APPLICATION FOR NEW JERSEY FILM TAX CREDIT (IN ADOBE PDF FORMAT) EXEMPTION FROM NEW JERSEY’S 6% SALES TAX
Certain tangible property used directly and primarily in the production of films and television programs is exempt from New Jersey’s 6% sales tax. This tangible property includes the purchase of replacement parts for machinery, tools and other supplies, the purchase of lumber and hardware to build sets, the rental of picture cars, the purchase or rental of other types of props, and costs related to the repair of camera and lighting equipment. To view the entire law, click here:
LAW GRANTING FILMMAKERS SPECIAL EXEMPTION FROM 6% STATE SALES TAX EXEMPT USE CERTIFICATE (FORM ST-4) AND INSTRUCTIONS THE NEW JERSEY FILM PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The Film Production Assistance Program allows film projects to be eligible for loan guarantees through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Guaranteeing a portion of loans made by other lenders encourages these lenders to finance projects they might not ordinarily finance on their own.
Loan guarantees cannot exceed 30% of the bank financing cost of the project, or $1.5 million, whichever is less.Until now, most film industry projects did not meet EDA eligibility requirements because the jobs they created were temporary. The new law expands the criteria for the EDA’s loan guarantee program so qualifying film production companies can participate.
The legislation sets important criteria for eligibility:
- At least one-half of material and production costs must be spent in New Jersey.
- At least 70% of shooting days must take place in the state.- Prevailing wage must be paid to workers employed in the project to be financed.
- The project must possess performance bonds.
Application forms are now available. For additional information, follow the links below:
LAW CREATING THE NEW JERSEY FILM PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PRINTABLE APPLICATION FOR NEW JERSEY FILM PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (IN ADOBE PDF FORMAT) WEBSITE FOR NEW JERSEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY NATIONAL TAX INCENTIVE PROGRAM
The American Jobs Creation Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 22nd, 2004, offers tax breaks to film and television producers.
DETAILS ON AMERICAN JOBS CREATION ACT
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Shoot Online | Meet The Commish | Filming Incentive Program Takes Hold In Connecticut | By Robert Goldrich
“July 21, 2006 — Heidi Hamilton became Connecticut’s Film Division Director last December, after having worked under the previous director. She brings to her position a broad-based background in law and filmmaking.”
CT Film | Connecticut Digital Media & Motion Picture Tax Credit
“What happens when you combine majestic shorelines, quiet meadows, old world architecture, bucolic town greens, mill town grunge, skilled crew base and 30% tax credits?”
CT Film | Welcome Message from Film Division Director Heidi Hamilton
“…In the closing days of the 2006 session, the General Assembly established tax credits for the production of digital media and motion pictures in Connecticut and renamed the division the Digital Media and Motion Picture Division (effective October 1, 2006). In an effort to encourage increased economic activity in the state and job growth, the legislation calls for a tax credit equal to 30% for qualified digital media and motion picture production, preproduction, postproduction and distribution expenses incurred in the state that exceed $50,000. The production tax credit is among the most aggressive programs in the country and will be administered by the Film Division. On our website you will find detailed information including a pre-application and instructions. Check frequently for updated program information.”
Connecticut In-State Production Tax Incentive info links:
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It used to be when you wanted to film in New York City Parks (i.e. Central Park, Prospect Park (Brooklyn), etc, you had to do a little detective work to find the number for the manager of the park in question (short of having an (as far as I know) unpublished list of the different districts and the managers of the parks in those districts) and call that manager for verbal permission to film in the park which he/she managed.
Assuming you could track him/her down and get an answer to your request (this could traditionally sometimes take several days from my experience- woe if they were on vacation or otherwise out of the office) and get permission, you would then go to the NYC Mayors Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) and add the location to your film permit.
Today, I called one of the park managers about filming in one the NYC Parks and got the ol’ voicemail, which instructed me to go to this webpage:
http://nyc.gov/html/dpr/html/film_shoot_form.html
So, I filled the form and submitted it over the internet. The form sent me an auto-email confirming my request and even assigned it a request number. The form goes to either a central party in charge of routing the requests, or possibly a database that automates this chore.
I’m keeping an eye on my email at this point waiting to get a response. *Follow-up Note*: The park manager that I needed an answer from called me for more details and approved my request within 24 hours.
Presumably, this form covers all the parks in the system. It seems a much more organized way to go about the Parks permitting procedure; it gives the park manager(s) a little breathing room to get their head in a space to deal with their request(s) instead of being bugged on the phone at inopportune times and/or having to scroll thru and listen to who knows how many voicemail messages to field filming requests in addition to what must be a myriad of other responsibilities that a New York City Parks Manager must have.
I’ll still have to take my permission (assuming they give me a green light for my request) to the permit office and add it to my Schedule “A”. It would be nice to be able to cut out this second step, but the two departments (the parks department and the permit office) need a way to talk to each other, so for now this a chore we’ll all have to live with.
NYC Parks Special Events
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