Question | Subject: rental property for movies and tv commercials | Category: Arts and Entertainment | Asked by: cuccina-ga | List Price: $10.00 Posted: 29 Jan 2004 19:24 PST | Expires: 28 Feb 2004 19:24 PST | Question ID: 301666
“I just spent some time to create a slim bookmarklet that enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page. It works with all common browsers without the need for any extension.”
This bookmarklet worked great for me, you save it to your Bookmarks (Firefox) or Favorites (Internet Explorer), log in to your Flickr page and a photo you would like to geotag. Click the bookmark and let the magic begin!
The bookmarklet adds the code to your Flickr page to create a url at Google Maps and a link on your Flickr page to the map.
Here is a photo set I tagged using the bookmarklet. Very kewl!
Helpful for a location scout using Flickr to assemble an album of location photos and there is a need to indicate the geographic location of the photos.
…yet another adventure in deploying lightweight do-it-yourself (DIY) tech solutions inna location scoutin’ bidness.
The title says it all. I was looking for a way to aggregate (collect)bookmarks (…favorites…posts) on del.icio.us that are most relevant to location scouting.
Conventional wisdom would seem to dictate that a search of tags such as “location scout” would be in order.
There are several del.icio.us-specific peculiarities that make this a more complicated task than it might seem on the surface: Because of the way del.icio.us handles tags, multiple word phrases (i.e. location scout) must be joined together so there are no spaces between the words, otherwise “location” and “scout” become two different tags. Obviously there are a number of ways to accomplish this; I decided that:
Also the mashup I found to aggregate the bookmarks has a 4-tag limit (more about this shortly), so, given the parameters, the syntaxes above dovetailed into the plan pretty smoothly.
Tag searching using the del.icio.us website interface is limited to just one tag. I needed to find a way to search del.icio.us using multiple tags at once.
Enter Yahoo Pipes. Pipes is a recent “whatsit?” (to me, anyway …all I know is it will “do stuff” using various web2.0 features such as accessing and interfacing with various API’s, databases and such and that there has been a good deal of chatter in the tech circles lately about Pipes. It does look a little like Ning, but I haven’t had a chance to play with Pipes at all other than this little side-project. (BTW some people think I am a bit of a techy, but it’s not true; real techies are always able to see that I am just someone who knows enough to be annoying and dangerous- just ask my web host
In a nutshell, “someone” (one Derek Van Vliet, actually…) figured out how search del.icio.us using 4 tags simultaneously as well as aggregating the results. The results are effective because they consist of posts that only had to use at least *one* of the tags as opposed to a heavily filtered list including only posts having to use all the tags, the former seeming to be the default of many database searches. Yet, still, the Pipe seemed to handle filtering out “noise” results such as “boy scout” or “store location”, etc. very well.
…which I renamed slightly to reflect the manner in which I am using the pipe, which is ok because all this kind of stuff in this neck of cyberspace is pretty open-source and in fact experimentation is generally encouraged.
Once I ran the Pipe and had my results (a web page exportable as an rssxmlfeed, of course like any good web2.0 app should…)
I took the feed link and made a Feedburner feed. I like Feedburner because there are so many additional features available that can be used on raw rss feeds. If you have worked with Feedburner much at all, you’ll know what I am talking about.
While I was setting up the Feedburner feed, I set up a SpringWidget, which is the box below and which is used to display the feed here on this website.
Update 3/21/08 | I cloned it! I felt a lot less intimidated by THE PIPE this time out so I just went in there with a hammer and a wrench … removed (from this post) …SpringWidget, added (to this post) …original Pipe note(s), my clone / feed URL, added map | original timestamp: April 07, 2007 @ 14:29
“The SHOOT Publicity Wire offers PR, marketing professionals, and entrepreneurs a powerful tool to communicate to a hard-to-reach vertical market comprised of news agencies, search engines, journalists, industry publications, customers, prospects, and influential industry decision-makers in the advertising, broadband, filmmaking, and television production and postproduction industries.”
The $49.95 (introductory rate thru April 30th, 2008) price per release seems very reasonable.
This new service seems similar to PRWeb (which I have used) and other online press release services, however, an advantage for production industry related news could be Shoot’s close affiliation with the production industry itself.
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I moved my links off this site to point to my links on del.icio.us | del.icio.us/rrhobbs after several years of trying ways to keep up with the the links I use regularly, to maintain them using various scripts and built in features of Wordpress (my site-building tool of choice), that del.icio.us proved to be the most efficient means.
If you are a location scout or need location scouting resources, you may just find some pearls in my links in addition to links I bookmark doing work on my websites. I spend more time that might be healthy on the internet doing research (plus I like it- a guilty pleasure of owning a computer…) and have accumulated somewhere in the nabe of 3,000 links so far- which might make navigating my (or anybody’s) links a formidable task if not for the fact that the links are tagged with regard to keyword or subject… and the pile of links grows daily.
Lightbox-NY opened this past year and is owned and operated by local NYC location scouting legends David Appleson and Carl Bellavia.
The space is unique in that it fills (at least a part of…) a current shortage of shoot-ready industrial aesthetic film locations in the New York City area. The space features a “raw” industrial interior with large, factory-typical windows and skylights as well as an accessible rooftop which includes a unique graphic element of the skylight’s shapes and the Bronx as a cityscape backdrop. Additionally, Lightbox-NY provides 10,000 sf more of production-wired raw studio space with potential for use as a propped, built-set sound stage for the local film production market.
Best wishes and good luck to David and Carl on their venture and hopes we might have an opportunity to shoot at their space sometime soon! -RH
Lightbox-NY - 841 Barretto St, Bronx, NY - 718-759-6419
It’s always an opportunity to reconnect with old friends and business associates and see if there is anything new and interesting in the way of photo gear.
Speaking of which, one of my latest pieces of gear is the Leica D-Lux 3 digital camera, which I bought (in addition to Leica’s reputation for fine craftsmanship and innovative engineering and design) on the merits of its ability to shoot 16:9 format.
Why is 16:9 aspect ratio important to me, you might ask?
I produce a significant number of panoramic photographs in the course of my work as a location scout, many of which, in the past, have required a considerable amount of time and work in post to assemble using multiple frames of traditionally formatted photographs. For many purposes, the single frame 16:9 photographs from the new Leica will serve to provide sufficient area coverage as to eliminate assembly after-the-fact. Yippee!
Photograph made at the 2007 New York City PhotoPlus Expo using the Leica D-Lux3 Camera, 16:9 Aspect Ratio
I had seen this around on the web for a while, just getting around to posting about it:
Location Scouting Templatepdfgif
From the Coherent Visuals Website, author of the book, Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking.
I usually just take off on a location scouting job with my cameras, a compass and a notebook; the Location Scouting Template seems a little more organized, I might try it next time out.
…rambling…
Curious if there is a little script or program for location scouting notes that could be used in a pda? …not that I was ever that much of a “pda person”… I bought a Handspring Visor (obsolete?) a couple of years ago and seems like all it ever did was sit in its recharger cradle (the rechargable battery seems to be “kaputt” now…replacement available? cost? (I heard they were expensive?), if I took the Visor out I would always seem to forget I did that, the battery would run down, I’d lose all my phone numbers and addresses and I’d have to set it up all over again and synch it; it just never quite fit completely into my “modus operandi”.
A lot of times I have to take a laptop location scouting anyway and I have an address book in that, phone numbers of any immediate importance get scribbled down in notes or are in my cellphone…
My latest “gadget” is an Ipod 80gb which seems to have an address book and calendar but I haven’t really played with those parts of it yet, been pretty busy getting my music loaded in it. …but the Ipod is *Great*!- I’m just lovin’ it!
I particularly like the regular Location of the Month section of each month’s newsletter, in which a city-owned property (such as perhaps a building) or park or New York City neighborhood which may be available as a filming location is highlighted.
The City of New York makes many properties available for filming at no or nominal cost in the interest of promoting filmmaking and economic development for the city.
Use of the various properties is often directly administrated through specific city government agencies depending on the property(s) in question, however, the film office can be quite helpful in directing filmmakers to the appropriate agency.
“About PrimoSpot: In a congested urban environment, parking can be difficult. This site can save you time and money by letting you find the best place to park for free. Using google maps and an extensive database of Manhattan parking signs, its easier than ever to find the most primo spot.”
“After living in Manhattan for years and racking up several hundred dollars of parking tickets, the site creator decided there must be a better way. After asking other drivers what their methods were, we heard that a few people were keeping hand-drawn maps in notebooks in their cars. As a programmer, he decided to create the map online. He opened the site to allow people to add their own streets and neighborhoods, and in June 2007, PrimoSpot was born.”
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“The Photobubble (patent pending) is an innovative new tool for film makers and still photographers which uses a backlit inflatable structure as a giant “soft box” for reflection free photography”
As I said on camera, Orangetown’s fees are exorbitant. I could never recommend sending a film crew to Orangetown under these circumstances. Film makers are not fools and contrary what many casual observers seem to think from what they may have seen on Entertainment Tonight, the production side of film and tv are not about burning thru money as fast as you can throw it on a fire, which is about what Orangetown’s fees amount to.
Evidently, at some time or another, someone was inconvenienced by production vehicle traffic (I am told it is one individual in particular and a review of town meeting minutes on the town website reflects a couple of instances where the same few specific residents made complaints about filming activities). The Town Supervisor, Thom Kleiner was quoted as saying they were inconvenienced by truck traffic.
The majority of film productions are very willing to work to with local residents as well as local government and law enforcement to facilitate conditions with every one’s best interests in mind. It seems like something cumulatively seriously fell thru the cracks in Orangetown.
It just doesn’t seem to all add up.
Time lost by residents due to occasional temporary neighborhood film-production traffic delays: 15 minutes?
Time spent preparing for and attending town meetings to complain: hours?
What’s sad is the town has cow-towed to these several misguided and selfish individuals. The many positive effects that film production has on a local community seems to be lost on this bunch.
Film production brings business to town. If there is a crew shooting they are likely putting people in hotels, eating in local resturants and using local caterers, shopping at local retailers and spending money with any number of other local businesses, not to mention owners of property used for locations who could be banking several mortgage payments in fees when their properties get utilised by production even just short-term.
Film production is a decent-size industry which accounts for around $5 billion a year New York City alone. In fact, contrary to popular belief, the local film offices exist not primarily as arts and cultural entities but rather as offices of economic development and the New York State Film Office and New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) are very active at their respective government levels to create tax incentives to attract film makers. A study of effects of New York City’s recent Made in New York Incentive reflects dramatic annual shoot day increases over the past several years which translates to a more than $3 billion increase in city revenue from film production. Tax incentives have shown to generate 30%+ returns, or, every tax dollar waived, have resulted in $1.34 in increased overall revenue.
The New York State Film Office and NYC MOFTB have both worked long and hard to attract filming to the state and greater NYC metro area, so, a town like Orangetown is, for all intents and purposes, shooting the film offices (as well as their own local economic development) in the foot.
Film Production is clean. You dont have to worry about cleaning up the ground water after a film company leaves town.
There is no doubt that for most people, being able to say that you have had a movie made in your town brings a sense of pride and most find experiencing the process to be fun and exciting.
An active local film/arts community does a lot to raise the cultural level of any town or city.
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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 libraryof shoot-ready locations for use by film, video and photo production.
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.
If you are interested in booking this location for your film, photo or video shoot please contact R. Richard Hobbs. This location may be available for film, photo and video media projects that allow for a reasonable location budget. Serious, production-related film location inquiries only, please.
Are you a homeowner or other property owner (i.e. small business owner) whose property would look great in pictures?List your property with us! Start here for full particulars.
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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!
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Update 7/2/2008 | A short clip from MoonCake, a short film by Marty Stanos, is available on Youtube (below). Marty is obviously very busy these days shopping and showing the film.
The short film, shot in film noir-ish black and white, is titled Moon Cake and was directed and produced by University of Michigan film student Marty Stano. The film is set to a catchy obscure pop song the title and band I have not yet been able to place other than a comment for the film that alludes to a bootleg record called Rabbit’s Moon, all of which adds to the intrigue.
The film was produced for less than $500 and it’s like a train wreck- I cant look away! I delight in replaying the video over and over! It’s this grungyavant-gard wonderful five minute, forty-five second bit of film wack and it’s just lots of fun to watch.
The Lot is a new tv joint by reality tv kingpin Mark Burnett and producer-director Steven Speilberg (who needs no introduction) whereby filmmakers submit films online for consideration for a $1 mil development deal prize with Dreamworks.
The Lot has been all the chatter recently over on the Wheresspot Board, wherein a number of participants have submitted film projects to The Lot.
Update 3/1: Music mystery solved :-)- The song is It Came in the Night by Andy Arthurs/A Raincoat from around circa 1976. This page pretty much tells it all. Also, see a reference to the music used in this video here.
Update 3/5: Up to now proving ignorance of certain aspects of film school curriculum, it has come to my attention that the music used in Moon Cake is the same score used in one release of director Kenneth Anger’s classic avant-gard short film, Rabbit’s Moon.
Anecdote: There have been several releases of Rabbit’s Moon, the most recent release, on The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One, in fact uses a number of ’50’s doo-wop titles as the score for Rabbit’s Moon.
I know all these things now because the intrigue compelled me to order the The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One DVD online to check out Rabbit’s Moon!
The Japanese folklore of the Rabbit In The Moon, (the view from Earth of the surface of the Moon is different in the far east than that visible in the western hemisphere and to many resembles a rabbit- part of the celebration of this lore is having children put out rice cakes for the rabbit;-) is present in many areas of film and music around the world including a house music trio from Tampa, FL named Rabbit In The Moon.
There are certainly similarities in the style of cinematography used in Marty Stano’s Moon Cake and Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon, in fact, now having more background about both films I daresay Moon Cake draws a heavy influence from Rabbit’s Moon, but dont feel the results have been presented in a way that could be construed as plagiarist or improper. Instead, I might suggest that Moon Cake pays tribute to Rabbit’s Moon in a very flattering way.
Wayfaring.com is a mapsmashup that allows you to create maps with routes and waypoints. This could be useful for a location scout to coordinate logistics for a project involving several locations during the course of a day.
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:
“Here at Good Widgets we follow a strict bad widget non-proliferation policy. Our widgets are nurtured and given the proper care to ensure maximum goodness. Made from only the finest of technologies, our widgets exceed even our high expectations.”
“Another photographer and I visited the Revere Sugar Refinery on Sunday, the day before real demolition began. We documented the interior of the iconic cone, and explored throughout the buildings in the complex. If you are interested in doing an article about our visit to the place, please contact me. You can see our photos here:
Our best shot of Revere can be found at BlueJake.”
You really have to see their photos of the Revere Sugar Refinery to appreciate this post.
I have location scouted this place, as have many other New York City area location scouts over the years since the sugar refinery ceased refining operations. I dont know exactly when it closed for refining business, but it was definitely before my time.
One of the interesting details I remember about the sugar refinery is the sunken ship. I wonder what has/will become of the sunken ship?
I have my OWN photos of the sugar refinery “somewhere” from when I was last there in, maybe like, 1999 (?)
In 1999 most of us still did our location scouting with film cameras and color prints (we are all pretty much all digital now) and when I put my location scouting folder together, like a good location scout, I gave all my photos to the photographer I was working for. The irony is, that same photographer decided to do some spring-cleaning a year or so back and asked me if I wanted their location library (which I was delighted to get, even tho it was three giant banker boxes full of of manila folders and prints!)
…so I have the pics- “somewhere”.
I never went back to the sugar refinery because, maybe a year after the first time I was there I called to make an appointment to location scout it for another job and the cranky old security guard (what was that guy’s name?) He was there just about every day for years.
…but I digress- I called the guy and he told me he wasnt doing any more location scout tours, the location scouts “wasted all his time and never booked shoots there” (like he had somewhere else to be?)
Anyway after that I wrote off the sugar refinery as a waste of research time and never called them again although I did hear, sometime later, maybe earlier in 2006(?), that the sugar refinery was tourable and shootable.
All of which is pretty much moot; according to Jake Dobkin, “The iconic dome of Red Hook’s Revere Sugar Refinery will probably disappear sometime in the next couple of weeks.”
…which is a shame to a location scout like myself- We location scouts survive by continually being able to pull visually interesting places such as the sugar refinery out of our hats for film directors and photographers; so, a landmark such as the Revere Sugar Refinery being demolished always makes my job just a little harder.
It’s been a tough past year or so… Admittedly, my vision of the state-of-affairs-for-old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City is skewed :
This is really just a starting point for working with Google Maps, there are many more hacks and features that can be added to a map which I will report as I learn how to implement them!
Just change the address in the box to an address for which you would like to know the map location and hit the GO button.
Google Maps will give you the geocoded address (if it is in their quite massive database).
This post would probably be more appropriately titled “How NOT to embed a Flickr Map”; it has been done quick-n-dirty using the url link to my Flickr Map inside an iframe and it looks it.
I’ll post a better way to do this once I find it. For now, the MapSack Widget mentioned in this post is a much more elegant solution.
7/5/2008: Actually, it looks as if Flickr has cleaned up its code so to allow itself to be embedded in an iframe much more attractively
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Bananr uses your Flickr i.d. to create a photo album using your Flickr photos.
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.
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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).
You will need a Flickr account (and some photos in that account that have been geotagged).
Unless you have some experience working with Wordpress don’t bother. If you have no idea what the term “javascript” means, then don’t bother.
Use the links and info given in this post to explore for yourself and complete your project to your own end. DO NOT contact me for support and please understand that I accept no responsibility for anything you do (or undo) to your website playing around with any of these toys. Otherwise- have fun!
Lately I have been investigating map sites and various map mashups that utilise Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, geotagging and various mapping api’s. Many map sites and their respective features are free and have possibilities for use by location scouts such as myself especially with regard to logistics.
Below is Mapkit by Platial. It features the ability to add multiple locations on a map and create multiple maps per account enabling, for an example, a location scout or location manager to create different maps (with multiple locations on each map, if needed) for different shoot days of a single production, or for different productions.
Update 2/5/2008 Mapkit has addded advertising on its maps since I last checked. Its looks pretty evil, but I suppose Mapkit needs sponsors to stay in business. At least the text ads appear to be travel related… RH
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In 2007, Platial acquired Frappr! Read about Platial here.
“Frappr! Maps are like a triple mash-up of an online guest book, a hit log and a map — three services that, combined, create a fun and visually appealing environment that will keep Web site visitors coming back for more.. ” …read the rest…
…all I know is it will “do stuff” using various 
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