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Location Awards honor industry best - Variety

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“This awards gala honors our hard-working location managers whose main motto is ‘keep filming in California,’ ” said Sheri Davis, director of the Inland Empire Film Commission and awards co-chair along with Janice Arrington of the Orange County Film Commission and Pauline East of the Antelope Valley Film Office. …

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

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    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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    Dog Whisperer’ listens to Belvidere native - Rockford Register-Star

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    If you really dig the “Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan,” then you’ve got two people to thank: Millan, the dog trainer and star, and SueAnn Fincke, a Belvidere native who is the series producer and director. “Cesar says she is the heart and …

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    Starting Out in Location Scouting

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    Occasionally, I get emails asking how to get started in location scouting / location management. I am often suspicious that people that write these letters are looking for a way - ANY way - out of whatever it is they are currently doing (and potentially dislike) rather than actually being genuinely interested in the location services field - It’s a “real” job with lots of responsibility and very well not nearly as glamorous as you might have imagined.

    Didja know the Location Department is the department in charge of making sure the trash gets carried away at the end of a shoot?

    Also, let’s face it, I am a pretty easy target - a quick email requesting a free look into the crystal ball is a pretty cheap investment in a career and I am pretty easy to find.

    … so how might anyone really know they want to be a location scout?

    It’s almost like, if they did know, they wouldn’t be asking.

    …but that’s just me, and as remote as it might be ;) there is a distinct possibility that my thinking on this could be flawed.

    That said, this is how things happenned for me:

    I attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale (AIFL) in Fort Lauderdale, FL and earned an Associate of Science Degree (AA) in Photography.

    Also at the time, I, of course, had aspirations to become a world-famous, world-travelled, filthy-rich, rockstar commercial photographer. When the major ad agencies of the world and top-shelf design firms of the world didn’t beat a path to my door upon graduation, I set about trying to learn more about my craft in the “real” world, seeking work as a photo assistant in the Fort Lauderdale and Miami media markets. At the time I entered the workforce and with considerations toward the size of the market I was in, I found staff positions in short supply, however, there was a blooming market for freelance photo assistants, helped by a blossoming South Beach “media scene” (and of course the generally balmy year-round weather in the region, which includes incredible stretches of pleasant, dry weather in the winter…) being fueled strongly by the fashion industry (as well as interest by advertising and media of many other types…), renovations and rehabilitation of the Art Deco buildings in the South Beach area of Miami Beach and a general boomtown economic environment of South Florida at the time. Miami Vice was in production then. In addition to working with local photographers I had a great opportunity to work with a number of photographers and production companies from all over the world, including a number of European-based teams and teams from New York, southern California and Chicago, to name a few.

    One of the photographers I worked with as a photo assistant in south Florida was a fashion advertising photographer from the New York City area, Tom Contrino. I worked as a local second assistant with Tom for two seasons and when his first assistant moved up the ladder to a photographer position in the still life area of the business back in New York City, I was offered an opportunity to move north to the New York City area and become Tom’s full-time, staff first assistant, which I accepted.

    In addition to freelance location scouting and production coordination for photography (both of which I discovered very early on that I found very gratifying and enjoyable) once I went to work to work for Tom I had an opportunity to expand my experience in these areas and learn an enormous amount about what it takes to operate a successful commercial photography business from the inside out and on a day - to - day basis - in addition to jobs we produced for clients, which often at times included location scouting and production coordination, in addition to my regular duties on shoots as a camera assistant and lighting tech, I was soon handling many back end chores such as hiring extra assistants, invoicing, equipment rental / purchasing, insurance inventorying, promotion - it all rolls together in a busy photography business.

    My tenure with Contrino Photography also offered me an excellent opportunity to travel and even tho I settled in New Jersey, in the New York City metro area, I travelled quite a bit with Tom for work back to south Florida, to California, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Chicago, and other destinations around the U.S.

    Eventually, after six years with Tom, it was, of course, time to move on and I became, once again, temporarily, a freelance photo assistant / production assistant, with aspirations AND experience needed to develop my own freelance location scouting / production business, working with photographer / director / producer clientele; subsequently, providing location services / locations for film / television / photo / events and production services for photography is what my current occupation consists of. Thru networking and marketing / promotion I have extended my location services beyond still photography to include video, motion picture and event clients.

    The “new frontier” for me (when I started out there was no email / we photographed locations using print film and made manila paper location folders filled with panoramic photos made by taping together 4×6 color prints…) is HDRi and image-based lighting for digital imaging (still and motion) and I have an association with Q-spheres to this end.

    I keep a running blog and online resume of sorts of jobs as I complete them which can be found at rrhobbs.us

    My website and home page, nyc.locationscout.us is both a blog and resource for location services and production. Please spend some time on the FAQS page! Use the search page and web and dig around for results for relevant location scouting search terms.

    Look on the sidebar, I can be found on most of the popular social networks (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

    Anyway, that’s how it’s happenned for me - there is no magic formula for entering and developing a successful location scouting career - everybody is different and in the beginning it is often difficult to tell what you are truly interested in personally and / or how / if you might be of problem-solving service to enough people to make a career for yourself. SO much is tied up in personalities, personal priorities and changing needs, business relationships, aptitude and developed skills. - You really may only THINK you want to become a location scout / location manager… The only sure way to find out is to get out there and start DOING.

    I always tell aspiring newbie location scouts to look for film school student film projects and productions to work on - attending film school is an excellent background for a location scout, some grounding in filmmaking is a very neccesary prerequisite. Look for start up and no / low budget short films and movies to volunteer for - you get out what you put in - hell, even if you are “just” sweeping the floors, you still get to watch - and learn - you have to expect you are initially likely letting yourself in for a period of going hungry and still, somehow, making ends meet - you have to be generally resourceful, develop keen communication / negotiating and research skills and you have be willing to toot your own horn (without being annoying) - but as you learn and start becoming a problem solver - if you love your work and are good at it, it will show! - making someone’s life easier, they will tell their friends and associates - The rest is yours to discover and grow by.

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    Wanderlust: Get Paid to Travel | How To Be A Location Scout

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    Wanderlust | Get Paid to Travel | How To Be A Location Scout | By Nick Ray

    “What could be more exotic and more glamorous than scouting far-flung locations, trying to find the best places for Brad and Angelina to play out their latest blockbuster? There’s travel, five-star luxury, a healthy pay check and lots of beautiful people!

    But with a job description like that, you know it’s going to be a hard industry to crack. You need to prove your expertise in a destination, and master the knack of finding inspirational realities that mirror the director’s vision. You need to be prepared for hard work and odd requests. And you need to be able to beat off the millions of other location-scout hopefuls.”

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    Finding Location Scouts and Location Managers on Twitter

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    I am always curious who the other people out there in cyberspace are that are somehow associated with location scouting and location management for film / tv and photo, so I felt lucky to discover that Twitter has its own search engine now, search.twitter.

    So… using the boolean search terms “location scout” OR “location scouts” OR “location scouting” OR “location manager” OR “location managers”, I came up this query to find Twitter tweets based on same.

    What’s even kewler is Twitter provides an Atom feed for any query :) it’s aggregated below :) with the 10 most recent tweets that contain any of the search terms.

    What is Twitter, anyway?

    Wikipedia has the the following to say about Twitter:

    Wikipedia | Twitter

    “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.”

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    “Twitter, Inc. was born out of the offices of Obvious in March of 2006. We are located in the beautiful South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California.”

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    Location scouting with@mareefrances was awesome and frightening. Now to go get our beer on with the amazing @missreed. 4 Jul 2009, 9:39 pm

    Location scouting with@mareefrances was awesome and frightening. Now to go get our beer on with the amazing @missreed.

    Source: "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search | theletterb (John and Jade)

    location scouting tomorrow. what other discipline combines video, art, sound, writing, photography and driving? 4 Jul 2009, 8:33 pm

    location scouting tomorrow. what other discipline combines video, art, sound, writing, photography and driving?

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    Relaxing after location scouting for this evening’s fireworks… 4 Jul 2009, 6:39 pm

    Relaxing after location scouting for this evening’s fireworks…

    Source: "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search | hermosawave (Daniel Sofer)

    Early morning location scouting for todays wedding and I end up at The Camera Store. Oops. 4 Jul 2009, 2:56 pm

    Early morning location scouting for todays wedding and I end up at The Camera Store. Oops.

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    Fiddler in the Darkness - Webisode #1: Location Scouting: http://bit.ly/KsTQC 4 Jul 2009, 12:17 pm

    Fiddler in the Darkness - Webisode #1: Location Scouting: http://bit.ly/KsTQC

    Source: "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search | HollywoodBL (Ramani Leah)

    had an interesting location scouting..hmmm oh well now lets go get that milkshake.. 4 Jul 2009, 5:40 am

    had an interesting location scouting..hmmm oh well now lets go get that milkshake..

    Source: "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search | adeyus (Rodney A Roberts)

    photoshoot next tues/thurs, I need to get my ass to the city and do some location scouting should change my roll of film too fuck. 4 Jul 2009, 5:26 am

    photoshoot next tues/thurs, I need to get my ass to the city and do some location scouting should change my roll of film too fuck.

    Source: "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search "location scout" OR "location scouts" OR "location scouting" OR "location manager" OR "location managers" - Twitter Search | milkred (milkred)

    Santa Barbara: Production Assistants (PA’s), Gophers, Site Monitors, Location Scouts (Santa .. http://bit.ly/3YVHI #Jobs 4 Jul 2009, 1:49 am

    Santa Barbara: Production Assistants (PA’s), Gophers, Site Monitors, Location Scouts (Santa .. http://bit.ly/3YVHI #Jobs

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    Going location scouting w/o a car, in a weather like this, is tortureeee. 4 Jul 2009, 12:52 am

    Going location scouting w/o a car, in a weather like this, is tortureeee.

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    On set! Just did renegade location scouting! Running in and out of a car into bodegas at night is super fun! 4 Jul 2009, 12:37 am

    On set! Just did renegade location scouting! Running in and out of a car into bodegas at night is super fun!

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    Blogmarks for 2008-08-19

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    Plazes: Where am I?

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    “Plazes allows you to find out what others are up to and see what’s happening at different locations. Users share where they currently are, what they’re doing and post future plans. Posting this information can be done on Plazes.com or by mobile phone (via text messaging). Users can also join groups to stay connected with their favorite people and Plazes.”

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      You have been waiting for a Plazes mobile site since long time already and now your patience has been rewarded: m.plazes.com just launched and it work. […]
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    Zimbio / Location Scouting

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    Zimbio / Location Scouting | Zimbio / Location Scouting / About

    “location scouting for film photo and video production with a focus on the New York City area”

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    Culture, Cupcakes and Cocktails at the Chelsea Art Museum 3 Jun 2009, 1:36 am

    Social networking site Yelp.com, together with the Chelsea Cultural Partnership threw a fabulous launch party at the Chelsea Art museum to kick off the Passport to Chelsea campaign.

    The “Passport to Chelsea”  offered guests discounts and special offers to sample the culinary, artistic and athletic specialties all found in the neighborhood.

    The three-level museum housed several art and design exhibits that I enjoyed.  One was “Sustainability” presented by a collective of Italian design brands. It showcased furniture, art, living and functional pieces made from sustainable materials and concepts.  The second was “Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden”. This was an exhibit of 12 contemporary Asian artists, using mixed media to interpret the concept of “garden” in their own way.

    There was a lovely pianist on the third floor playing for guests of the exhibits, and a DJ in the reception room.  Top restaurants from the Chelsea neighborhood provided the nibbles.  Crema, an upscale modern Mexican restaurant served up a truffled chicken tortila goat cheese tart as well as coconut scallop ceviche.  Late night favorite, Cafeteria, served up delicious red velvet cupcakes.  Elegant Matsuri, could barely keep their spicy shrimp siu mai on the banana leaf for a few seconds before being ravaged by hungry guests.

    Sake2Me, a new company, served up fruit and tea infused sake beverages that were light and flavorful withough knocking you on your butt.  My new favorite liquor brand, Domaine de Canton, a ginger-infused cognac, also spread some cocktail love with their drink of the evening, using lemon and bitters.

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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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    American / Independent Directors

    “The best directors in independent film, from cult favorites to the great masters working outside the studio system: John Waters, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Alison Anders.”

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    Homeowner Experience: “Dodge Films a Commercial at My House”

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    Doctorius | Grab Life By the Horns: Dodge Films a Commercial at My House | May 8, 2008

    “People who live in Los Angeles often harbor fantasies of being on television or in movies. Likewise, it is also not uncommon for the homes in which these people live to share the same dream! On Friday, March 7, 2008, my home was given a chance to live this fantasy when part of a commercial for the 2009 Dodge Journey was filmed in my driveway and the street on which my house is located.”

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    New York State Film Office

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    New York State Film Office

    About the New York State Governors Office of Motion Picture and Television Development:

    “Our office is your liaison with city and local governments, state agencies, a network of statewide contacts, local film offices and professional location scouts. Call us and we’ll get you what you need or find the people who can help.” …read the rest…

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    • The New York State film production market is one of the largest in the United States as well as world-wide and has a world-class film office located in New York City equipped and eager to service the needs of the production community while furthering economic development in the State of New York.

    Being located in New Jersey, very close to New York City and the lower Hudson Valley of New York, I call on the NYS Film Office (as well as the NYC Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) - the film liaison for New York City) frequently for assistance with location and production needs for film, video, photo and events productions; the NYS Film Office (as well as MOFTB) are always helpful and knowledgeable helping me solve any location or other production-related challenges as New York (state and / or city ;-) might avail themselves.

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    Northwest Location Professionals

    “Location Scouts and Managers serving the Pacific Northwest and Beyond | Northwest Location Professionals, Seattle, Washington”

    Northwest Location Professionals lists the following location services professionals:

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    Location Scouting Tips

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    Location, Location, Location: Scouting Tips | By Scott Spears - Cinematographer

    “Just like in real estate, when you leave the studio (if you were ever in one) one of the biggest factors to a good shoot, is location, location, location. I’ve been on many a location scout and have seen some great location and so not so great locations. One of the biggest things when seeing what looks like a great location is you have to think will it work logistically. The factors to locations are cost, sound issues, power and logistics. We’ll break those down in a minute.”

    …read the rest…

    Location, Location, Location: Scouting Tips Sub-Headings:

  • Cost
  • Sound Issues
  • Power
  • Logistics
  • Paperwork
  • Final Thoughts
  • Location, Location, Location: Scouting Tips was also published at Internet Video Magazine - Scouting Tips for Shooting on Location

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    Filmmakers Guide

    “Filmmakers Guide is a free directory for production companies Actors, Actresses, Art Directors, Audio Technicians, Boom Operators, Camera Crew, Camera Operators- Cranes, Jibs, Camera Operators- Film, Camera Operators- High Definition…”

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    Areas of Interest (follow the links on the Filmmakers Guide website sidebar):

  • Crew and Union
  • Digital Format
  • Education and Training
  • Equipment
  • Events
  • Film Festivals
  • Financial and Business Services
  • Organizations and Publications
  • Post Production Companies
  • Production Companies
  • Support Services
  • Talent Services

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    Locationscout.com | Location Scouting for Film Production

    “Film Locations and Location Scouting. Links, contacts, software. Resources for film commissions, location scouts and managers”

  • One of the oldest location scouting websites on the internet is locationscout.com.

    • “This Website is maintained by Marino Pascal a Commercial Location Scout based in Los Angeles”

    …on locationscout.com:

  • Partners and Clients | Location Scouting | Location Links | LocationTalk | Community | Software - Mac PC | Webhosting

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    The Colorado Production Resource Guide is a comprehensive portal of production resources available around the state of Colorado, produced and presented by the Colorado Film and Video Association:

    About the CFVA

    “The Colorado Film and Video Association (CFVA) is a professional association of film, video, digital media and multimedia professionals. CFVA was formed in July 1982 and now has over 750 members.”

    About the Colorado Production Resource Guide:

    “The Colorado Production Resource Guide (CPRG) is Colorado’s official production directory, put together yearly the by the Colorado Film and Video Association. The CPRG includes names and contact information for hundreds of people and businesses who work in the production industry. If you are involved with video, film or any other aspect of media production, you should be listed in the CPRG.”

    …read the rest…

      Colorado Production Resource Guide Section Guide Headings:
      * Pre-Production & Development
      * Production Companies
      * Crew
      * Production Equipment / Supplies / Facilities
      * Post Production
      * Location & Specialty Services
      * Support Services
      * Multimedia
      * Film Commissions & Community Profiles

      - Section Index

      - Lister Index

      Colorado Film Commission

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    From YMCA of Greater New York | Requesting YMCA Space for Film & TV:

    “If you are a film or television producer scouting locations, please DO NOT CONTACT YMCA BRANCHES. E-mail the following information to kshermach@ymcanyc.org:

    • Your name, company’s name, telephone number and e-mail address
    • Description of your project
    • Treatment and/or script, including working title
    • Specific request (space, duration, preferred dates and times)
    • Proof of insurance
    • Planned contribution
    • Any additional information”

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    MediaBytes With Shelly Palmer - Technology, Media and Entertainment News and Opinions

    Bio:

    “Shelly Palmer is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry leading technology, media and entertainment consulting firm. From developing advanced television services to implementing new Internet technologies, Palmer’s pioneering efforts have made him the successful creator, producer, composer and television Renaissance man he is today.

    Palmer is the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). He is the Vice-Chairman of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences and chairman of the Advanced Media Technology Emmy® Awards.”

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    feed MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer - The Blog
    • Remembering Michael Jackson | Sunday, 28 June 2009, 4:23 pm
      This past week we lost two of our dearest pop-culture icons. Farah Fawcett, the subject of the best selling poster of all time and Michael Jackson, th. […]
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      Television, the platform, is having a bad year. There are lots of reasons: the economy, consumer control, audience fragmentation/atomization, etc. On. […]
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      Last week I wrote a short missive about a problem I was having with a very vocal minority of my daily MediaBytes video viewers regarding a pre-roll ad. […]

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    “R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv.”

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    Update 4/29/2008 | Joe’s move to Chicago | map | Joe writes:

    “As you know (?) I’ve bought a home in Deerfield, Illinois and I’m moving soon. I’ll be in Illinois for a few days beginning April 30th and returning to Maplewood (NJ) to complete the move on May 6th. The movers haul it all away on Friday the 9th and then….. My new contact info is as follows:”

    (personal information edited out) - if you need to contact Joe, the best thing to do is visit his:

  • Website: http://pobereskin.com
  • Blog: Eat At Joe’s

    • “My e-mail address, web site, blog and cell phone will all remain the same. Cell phone seems to be the most reliable contact for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully all will go as planned and we’ll be able to stay in-touch seamlessly.

    If you’re going to be in the Chicago area, please let me know.

    Best,
    Joe”

    Original post| January 25, 2008 at 12:05 |
    My friend, photographer Joe Pobereskin has a blog, Eat At Joe’s.

    I cant think of a person the blog platform would be more perfect for… I have known Joe for a number of years and have always known him to be very active in photography-related online discussion groups and the photography community in general. (Joe is currently president of ASMP NJ if that tells you anything!

    Joe Pobereskin loves to write and has aspirations for doing so professionally- he has said as much to me in conversation. If you read Eat at Joe’s, Joe’s prose is succinct and clear and yet allows his gregarious personality to shine through.

    Good work, Joe - keep it up!

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    Trigger Street.

    From Trigger Street - About Us:

    “Trigger Street Productions, Inc., was formed in 1997 by Kevin Spacey to develop and produce entertainment in a variety of mediums. Realizing that the path to his own success would have been much rockier without the support and encouragement of many outstanding mentors, Spacey has sought out a way to inspire, nurture, and help bring exposure to new and undiscovered talent.” (…read the rest…)

    Trigger Street is a media production industry community portal of considerable size. (I hope there are some other location scouts onboard - I havent had time to really dig and look around…) It seems similar to Wheresspot, but perhaps more for people just starting out in filmmaking and production…

    I discovered Trigger Street on Digg - Trigger TV’s podcast, The Reality of Professional Oscar Predictions: not so good. had been dugg. I enjoyed the show, so I checked out Trigger Street further and eventually registered a user account.

    Here is my Trigger Street Profile

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    Online File Storage for Location Scouts?

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    The jury is (and may always be) out on the best solutions for digital file archiving and backup. What follows are some thoughts about same and some solutions I have been exposed to:

    Here’s the scenario- as a location scout, I deal with A LOT of photos- individually they are not unusually large files, but between scouting jobs and photos that people send me of their property, I look at and have to deal with organizing a heapo’ pictures on just about a daily basis! Not only that, in the location scouting biz, information is money so there have to be ways to access this visual information quickly(as well as the contact info and notes about each- but more on that later…).

    The first place any photos go when I aquire them is a remote 160 GB Firewire (or IEEE 1394) hard drive pretty much dedicated to archiving location photos, shortly after which, especially if the photos were made for an in-progress location scouting job, they get uploaded to my Locamundo account for immediate use in an online location album and archived for permanent reference.

    Call me paranoid ;-) but what if:

  • my hard drive crashes?
  • locamundo crashes? (the photos get compressed on locamundo too and I have prefer to have “original photos”). Also I could lose my internet connection temporarily (its happenned more than once and could occur on the Locamundo end or my ISP’s end (network problems, severe weather/ power outage) in any case, its annoying and does nothing to help me help my client solve their problems, which we are more often than not trying to do on a tight deadline.

    • I have many of my files backed up locally on yet another local harddrive partition, but all these files on the same machine take up a lot of hardrive space. The cost is not such a problem in and of itself, harddrives get cheaper every day; however, all these files lying around in partitions on the same local harddrive(s) do nothing to help speed along more mundane tasks such as searching for files, whether they be related to location scouting scouting or not and really increase the time it takes for my anti-virus program to do its daily scan of my system. I defragment my hardrives regularly to help keep them speedy and healthy and lots of files make that go much slower as well.

    Purchasing additional removable drives might be the way to go.

    In “the real world”, the fact is, once my files are uploaded and keyworded on Locamundo, I may not ever need to touch them again, or if I do it is likely to be a long time before I do, but the fact remains that I cant just delete them.

    Enter online storage solutions.

    Right now I am trying out MediaMax Streamload. Streamload is the name of a Windows program ditributed by MediaMax which runs locally(on my computer) as a service and provides a secure network link to my private file storage account on MediaMax’s server. At this writing, MediaMax provides a free 25GB account, upgradable to provide more storage space. Then next upgrade level is 100GB for $4.95 per month, which is very affordable and which I might move up to as soon as I figure out why Streamload is hanging when I try to access the local folders where my files are located. I like the online solutions, they do backups on their end as well.

    But…like I said, I gotta lotta files, it could be a matter of organizing them differently so the Streamload application doesnt cease to respond. Compared to local drives, an internet connection, from dialup all the way up to heavy-duty broadband connections are pretty lightweight. You can cram just so much info in a data pipe at time. It’s always something…

    Update: After opening a free Media Max account and downloading and running the Streamload Beta, when I used it to find my files to upload, the program hung and had to be forced closed. Kinda defeated the purpose of using proprietary software whose stated purpose was to facilitate uploading large numbers of files simply and quickly. When I needed to do a restart my entire system hung. I rebooted to safe mode and to try and uninstall Streamload that way but its uninstaller would not work in safe mode. I had noticed that Streamload was running as a Windows Service so I disabled it there, rebooted normally and uninstalled Streamload. Summarily, it didnt seem to play well with my system, your mileage may vary.

    Hmm, maybe there are some Bittorrent solutions out there? In addition to bittorrents typically taking a LONG time (this is my experience- again, your mileage may vary), they rely on a pool of people sharing a file to pass the pieces to each other and the Bittorrent app takes up recources while it is working- I dont wanna share my files with others and sometime I have to have a lot of programs open on my computer that I need to be running full steam- I sure dont need bog-downs and crashes trying to make a deadline! Still, gotta look into that a little more

    CD’s/DVD’s you say? Been there, done that. Takes forever, ties up computer resources and the media (the cd’s/ dvd’s) data deteriorates over time. I have two crates of cd’s that I have used to back up files over the years and everytime I put one in the cd drive, if it is more than a year or two old, there is a good chance it is unreadable- corrupted. I have cd’s going on ten years old, I probably have a lot of files I may never again have access to. File recovery is VERY time consuming or VERY expensive. Remember Zip Disks and floppies? What a laugh!

    IDE, Firewire and USB Harddrives have become very affordable so, as I mentioned above, this is a road I have followed as recently as the past year or so. Traditional IDE hardrives of very good quality can be bought very cheaply and the prices seem to continue to drop. Cases and USB/Firewire interfaces amke these drives removable and portable. These drives are fast. May be time to buy some new hardware.

    I welcome feedback about all this so, for now, I am going to leave comments open for this post, something I rarely do, as I just dont have time (you see me trying to buy just a little time doing backups here don’cha?) to put into housecleaning blog spam. Akismet, do your thing! We’ll see how it goes…

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