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I recently authored my second article for Wikipedia, a short definition / description of the term “location library”:

Louisa Curtis, aka Chatterbox, just redid her website (which looks great, by the way!) including the recent addition of the ChatterBlog.

As a producer or production coordinator, when asked to estimate production costs for a specific shoot, there are almost always some of the basic line items that have to be covered…

via Dennis Connors and Tina Gehrig:
John McCormack, 57, a partner of ProSet (West Paterson, NJ) has passed away.

Season’s Greetings to all from R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us!

The 2007 Photo Plus Expo was this week in New York City.

BizBash, an event-planning resource website, has recently begun a series on its different city and regional websites, which include New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Florida and Toronto entitled BizBash Location Scout Archive (link is for New York- Location Scout Archive for other cities can be found under the “Venues” tab(s) on each city’s respective website).

From the Photobubble website:

This past week I was contacted by a mid-Westchester County, NY property owner about the prospect of using their 200 year-old farmhouse home as a shoot location for film, photo or video projects.

As evidenced by the rest of the content here on my website and very likely because you were looking for someone like me, you probably already know I am a location scout and location manager and maintain a location library of shoot-ready locations for use by film, video and photo production.

In addition to being a beautiful home, this particular house has the distinction of recently being the “hero house”, or one of the main filming locations in the soon-to-be-released Miramax Film Corporation feature film, The Hoax, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Richard Gere and Alfred Molina (complete IMDB webpage here) which attempts to tell the story of the Clifford Irving / Howard Hughes autobiography scandal of the 1970’s.

The owner relates to me that filming for the movie last year at their home went on pretty much full time for a period of about two months and that, overall, they enjoyed the experience and wish to host more shoots at their home in the future.

The home is located within a 30 mile radius of Columbus Circle, New York City, so it may be considered “within the zone” for many film and video shoots.

GoodWidgets is a site where you can build a number of photo album widgets using photos from popular photo services. A location scout might find this useful to present an album of location photos like this – my photo set of the Brooklyn Bridge at Flickr:

Actually, this is Bananr running locally and embedded using an iframe.

Here is a way to imbed your Flickr photos on your website using the Mapsack Flickr Widget, which could be useful for a location scout wishing to present locations to a client at the same time illustrating said locations’ geographic postion(s).

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:

CBC News | Arts | Biggest Photo Story

MOFTB: Scouting Tag Program Discontinued

DigiLondon – The Who, What and Where of London | Visit digiLONDON and know where you’ve been

Brad Miller takes some car photo workshop folks thru the paces; good basics if you havent worked on this sort of stuff before.

Location Scouting / Wikipedia

RICH’S QUICK GUIDE TO POSTING PICTURES TO A WEBSITE

also here: http://rrhobbs.com/postingyourpics.html

Please note: The most currently updated info is available here: http://rrhobbs.us/locproc.owners.html

Excerpt:

About Filming Permits | Information for Production and Property Owners:

Pittsburgh photographers resource | Bolster Photography: Pittsburgh photographer’s resource and location production guide by Mark Bolster

Scouting Locations For Film And Television With Digital Images – Microsoft Reader Catalog of eBooks | by Francis Hamit | ISBN: 1595951369

Aerial Cinematography

“Aerial cinematography often encompasses more than air-to-air photography of other aircraft. Sometimes the aerial cinematographer is called upon to facilitate photography from the ground and within the aircraft itself.”

Photography and Film Locations and Descriptions – I LOVE NEW YORK – The Official New York State Tourism Website:

Location Management, Inc. – Location Scouting Services