Location Scout + Location Manager R. Richard Hobbs
The decision on the future filming location of BBC dramas, including Casualty, is expected to be announced tonight by the director of BBC Vision, …
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Production chart updated in Daily Variety every Thursday. Please send production chart additions, corrections, changes or questions to Dave Lewis (lewisda@reedbusiness.com) by using this form. Submit changes at least three days before print publication.
Yahoo! Search: tv production
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Rye and Battle (UK) Observer | TV man’s death blamed on film site clear-up | INQUEST TOLD OF EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS | Published Date: 29 August 2008 | By Observer news | via Google News
“A TV production manager who worked on hit shows London’s Burning, Upstairs Downstairs and On The Buses died from asbestos poisoning he contracted while on set of another ITV show.”
Rye and Battle Observer - Rye and Battle News - Rye and Battle News
Yahoo! Search: asbestos poisoning
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NYCTV | NYC Media Group | About NYC Media Group
“NYC Media Group, formed in early 2005, is the entity responsible for managing and programming the City of New York’s media assets and forms an integral part of New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. NYC Media Group oversees one broadcast television station reaching approximately 7.3 million households, five New York City cable television networks reaching approximately 1.8 million households each, one full power FM radio station (WNYE 91.5FM), and its Emmy award-winning production company, NYC TV Original Productions.”
In conjunction with and in addition to NYCTV the NYC Media Group oversees and operates a number of other media assets.
Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Production News | NYC TV - the Station that’s ‘Everything New York’ - Celebrates Fifth Anniversary | August 1, 2008
“NYC TV just celebrated its fifth anniversary as the official television network of the City of New York. Launched in June 2003, NYC TV expanded its coverage of City history, culture and entertainment by developing a slate of original programs showcasing the vitality of the City, while also continuing coverage of important governmental activities such as City Council hearings and Mayoral events.”
NYCTV | Programming
Media
I couldnt get the Live Streaming to work but there was a generous selection of programming to watch on Video on Demand. I especially liked the Emmy Award-winning Secrets of New York, wherein the show currently explores mysterious and largely unknown areas of the city, including a tour thru the abandoned New York City City Hall Subway Station as well as other locations that simply make a location scout’s mouth water! 
Secrets of New York urban legend manhattan queens staten island bronx brooklyn
Journey to the remote lockup where Typhoid Mary died
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The rich culture of NYC is just a click away.
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The first American legal “dream team” defends a murder suspect in 1799.
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Explore abandoned train station and giant water valves.
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Spanning the Hudson: the amazing secrets of the George Washington Bridge.
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The mystery of New York’s oldest clock, as well as a stolen statue.
Source: Secrets of New York |
Can’t find something? Try the search button.
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Mysteries of New York City’s most valuable toy
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Journey into the bowels of the Criminal Courthouse.
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A priceless painting stolen by Nazis, but now on view in New York City.
Source: Secrets of New York |
Yahoo! Search: NYCTV
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Hometown Weekly: Medfield becomes commercialized | By Jill Bellavance | Hometown Weekly Correspondent
“Medfield has hosted the filming of reality television shows and even a major motion picture. Now it seems our little town is branching out in the way of commercials.”
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Eyes in the Sky | May 11, 2007 in GPS, Johnny Appleseed, Nuvi, driving, location scout | by jhalbrook
“…The fact that I was once employed as a location scout in Hollywood land may strike some of you as puzzling, perhaps even perverse. Finding the locations wasn’t difficult; it was finding my way back that was hard. The art director of one show, who seemed to be alternately amused and annoyed by our outings, coined the term dipsy doodle to describe my circuitous navigation. I would approach each address as if I had to circle it a few times to get there. It was my landing pattern…”
…excerpt via WordPress.com/tags/Location Scout…
“Find other items tagged with “location-scout”:
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VideoJug | Ben Lyons: Location Scouting For Your Independent Film
VideoJug: Location Scouting For Your Independent Film
Transcript and other videos
“Ben has been featured on MTV’s Your Movie Show, At the Movies on MSNBC and Access Hollywood and has worked as a segment producer on the nationally syndicated Hip-Hop Nation.”
“Since launching in September 2006, VideoJug has grown into the world’s most comprehensive library of free factual video content online. Our professionally-produced, high definition videos cover every conceivable topic and the site is the definitive online “encyclopaedia of life”.
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GoogleEarthHacks.com | TV show/movie locations
“Where television shows or movies were filmed. Get more info about your favorite movies and TV shows at Screen Dig.”
…read the rest…
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PBS - Frontline: The Monster That Ate Hollywood:
“Have risk-averse MBAs killed Hollywood’s magic? Studio executives, producers, filmmakers, and critics talk about how the movie business, and movies themselves, have changed.”
Frontline: The Monster That Ate Hollywood (2001) (IMDB)
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update 5/16/2008 | added map / links / general cleanup | original timestamp February 16, 2006 at 10:40 am
“The midwest’s leading source for the creative community | Creative Directory Services provides an umbrella site for all aspects of the production community servicing the Midwest”
Category Headings of resources (visit Creative Directory for links):
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About the Commission
“The Tupelo Film Commission which was established in 1989 is experienced with over 14 years in working with filmmakers. The Commission falls under the umbrella of the Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau, is a member of AFCI and works closely with the MS State Film Office. The purpose of the Commission is to attract filmmakers to our City providing locations for films, commercials, documentaries and television productions. The goal of the Tupelo Film Commission is to make sure that projects are carried through in a cost-efficient, timely and professional manner. It is a known fact that the hospitality Tupelo offers makes our City a desirable location to film in. Tupelo hosted films “Tomorrow” in 1968 and “Heart of Dixie” in 1989 and has worked with many documentaries and commercials.”
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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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update 4/22/2008 | added map | original timestamp: February 28, 2008 at 12:32
“There are advantages and disadvantages to life in SoCal. In the plus column: There are a lot of TV shows, movies and commercials that need houses in which to shoot “on location.” And that means you — if your house meets the criteria — could make some good money off your house.”
Pardon Our Dust
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Update 3/26/08 - This is a general cleanup of an article I originally posted timestamped December 04, 2006 @ 09:07. At the time I wrote the original post, geotagged map solutions which could include photos were really just starting to come of their own (from what I could find myself and / or was able to wrap my head around at the time …
I am normally approaching investigation of new technologies from a point of view as a location scout or location manager with regard to how same might be applied usefully toward doing a better job as a location scout or location manager, more efficiently.
That said, it has become pretty easy as of late to build a simple, general purpose location map, i.e. placemarks of all the locations to be used in a production - with the address / other contact info / thumbnail(s) of the location(s) included), on a Google Map:
Still, every shoot is different, with different problems for the location department to solve and the solutions below are still very much alive at this writing, so scroll on thru on check em out… -RH
…via WheresSpot Blog…via New York Times. (requires free registration)
NY Times: Pictures, With Map and Pushpin Included | By IAN AUSTEN | Published: November 2, 2006
“KATHLEEN BENNETT recently bought a device that keeps track of her location with help from the satellites of the Global Positioning System. But unlike many other people in Seattle, Ms. Bennett is not, by her own description, “an outdoor person” and will not be using it to find her way through the wilderness.”
“Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images and is a form of geospatial metadata.” …read the rest…
…which, broadly speaking, is the practice of embedding geographic data in media of one type or another (i.e. “geotag” a …blog post …photo).
There are MANY uses for geotagging, i.e creating a waypoint in a map or perhaps embedding data in a photo to let that photo be associated with a waypoint on a map… then posting that photo online and linking it and the embedded geographic data to a map, showing just where in the world the shutter was pressed.
There are file formats (i.e. GeoRSS, GPX and KML) that “speak” in geographic terms. Much of this type of data is intended to be primarily machine readable, altho, ultimately, the end purpose is usually toward output which is “human readable”, or comprehensible and presumably, of some use to a person.
Geotagging and online mapping are parts of a field coming to be known as neogeography, or “new geography”.
“Tracking news, views, and conversations in 11,860* towns and neighborhoods” * …and counting…
From Outside.in’s FAQ:
“Q: What is outside.in?
A: Outside.in is the best way to discover the people, places and conversations in your community. Enter your city, neighborhood, or zip code in the field below the map (on the home page), and start exploring your community. We’ve designed outside.in to be the best resource online for:
Keeping up with news and opinions in your neighborhood Finding out the inside scoop on local places or events: schools, new real estate developments, playgrounds, bars Meeting interesting new neighbors, and sharing your local knowledge with them
Here are ways to geotag blog posts so that Outside.in can index them. Note: - you need to register your blog with Outside.in as it may be appropriate for inclusion on outside.in.
Map Examples:
The first map below utilizes geotagging, Google Maps and Flickr. It is a Widget published by Mapsack.
Next is another Mapsack mashup - it does not integrate the photos from Flickr, however, it does display a nice hybrid map and location of my office location in NJ <- ...this is a link to a Google Map...
note: the map above uses an iframe tag … in case you were curious what that might be…
This my Frappr Map (or “friend” map) - you can see an example of it embedded in a blog post here. It is interactive - you can add yourself to it- be my guest.
Finally, below is a map created using GeoPress, a WordPress plugin, which shows where I am located in Clifton, NJ.
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updated 3/26/08 | original timestamp: December 04, 2006 @ 09:07
I am probably dating myself, but when I was a kid ( did I EVER think I would use THAT phrase? The Dick Cavett Show was THE kewlest talk show to watch on tv.
Now he writes his own blog for the New York Times.
NYTimes | Blogs | Dick Cavett | About Dick Cavett
“The host of “The Dick Cavett Show” — which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982 — Dick Cavett is also the coauthor of two books, “Cavett” (1974) and “Eye on Cavett” (1983). He has appeared on Broadway in “Otherwise Engaged” “Into the Woods” and as narrator in “The Rocky Horror Show,” and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including “Forrest Gump” and “The Simpsons.” Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.”
Dick Cavett
Preface: This post is not so much about doing actual location scouting work using the internet*, but rather finding online content that other location scouts might be posting around the internet or other published content on the subject of location scouting. So I guess it is, in way, but not really?
“Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of December 2007, Technorati indexes over 112 million weblogs.[1] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.” (Wikipedia)
Technorati has received some criticism recently surrounding some of its activities (see Technorati Wikipedia page), however, there is no arguing with an index of 112 million blogs, someone is using their services…
To find blog posts, photos and online video about a given subject, do a search on the Technorati home page using terms pertaining to the subject you are seeking information about.
Technorati relies relies heavily on the “tags” taxonomy hence when results returned from a basic Technorati search, the url will contain the following structure:
…technorati.com/tag/subject
Search results page for “location scouting” is http://technorati.com/tag/location+scouting
If you are an internet content author and wish to have your content show up in Technorati results you may wish to note Technorati uses the “+ sign” separator for multi word search term phrases.
Sam Rohn and I post a lot online on the subject of location scouting, so you are likely to find a lot of results from our websites in the Technorati index.
In addition to Google’s ongoing indexing of general web content, Google Blog Search indexes blogs specifically and is a direct competitor for Technorati’s audience.
Here is the results page for a Google Blog seach using the search phrase “location scouting”.
Google Blog Search has gained some popularity recently, an example being that the very popular blogging software, WordPress recently switched to Google Blog Search as the default source for incoming links on the administration dashboards of WordPress hosted blogs and user-hosted blogs.
I am not that familiar with Ice Rocket, altho I do know they have been around for some time and I am pretty sure Ice Rocket is one of the many default blog indexing services pinged by WordPress’s (Automattic) Pingomatic service. (If you havent noticed, I rely on WordPress quite a bit as the website platform for all my websites). The WordPress / Automattic group carries quite a bit of cred with me, so I am sort of like, “if they think it’s good, then it must be”.
…so, here is a blog search for “location scouting” using Ice Rocket…
Yahoo has a blog search engine as well, but frankly, it seems a little weak - at least one review calls Yahoo’s Blog Search “not much more than a quick add-on to Yahoo News”. In any case, here are results of a Yahoo Blog Search for “location scouting”.
A while back I made a post on rrhobbs.com about a Yahoo Pipe I found called del.icio.us Tag Masher that aggregates bookmark results using 4 different search terms which always returns some informative results. I’d like to find a mashup that delivers aggregated results from Technorati, Google Blog Search, Ice Rocket, Yahoo and del.icio.us.
* You can find other content on nyc.locationscout.us regarding useful online tools for location scouting, try clicking the following tags on the nyc.locationscout.us archives page in the tag cloud (or just use the links below)
The search box (also located on the home page) provides nyc.locationscout.us site-wide search results of content contained on the site.
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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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Note: The author is a freelance film / photo location scout and location manager and is neither a member of AMPTP or WGA. Any of the opinions expressed are those of R. Richard Hobbs.
Been missing the latest episodes of your favorite sitcom lately? Got left sitting on the edge of your seat wondering what happenned next on that tv drama you really like? Tired of watching reruns of late night talk shows (except for Letterman - and maybe the Tonight Show- but only as of this week…)
Any of the above could likely be due to the the ongoing WGA Writers Strike, which began November 5th, 2007. The two primary organizations involved in this dispute are The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP).
The WGA supplies writers to the AMPTP, who’s members produce the majority of network television shows and major feature films.
The WGA is a guild. The AMPTP is a trade association.
The last contract between the WGA and the AMPTP expired last fall and the reasons for the strike involves what the WGA feels are unresolved issues in the new, pending contract (obviously a large amount of detail, discussion and info…), but are largely with regard to compensation to the writers from income to the producers from new media and distribution, i.e. internet and other electronic / digital media.
If you follow the many sources of news and information about the strike including entertainment industry and production trade publications such Variety and The Hollywood Reporter (Wikipedia has a good overview of the strike as well), you may find the matter is very involved and complicated. This strike involves major organizations and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. Each side has teams of lawyers and representatives and at least one party has hired a public relations firm.
Conventional thinking might suggest that if two parties in question cant seem to agree, then an expeditious solution might be to enlist the services of a knowledgeable, but impartial third party to be a mediator or arbitrator, however, at this writing, one or neither of the WGA and AMPTP appear willing to allow the matter to be solved in this manner and there is no law prohibiting the strike since the strike (arguably does not affect “necessity services”, i.e. public transportation, utilities, etc.
While I am sure, at the bottom of it all, (except for maybe the lawyers? everyone would like to see this strike settled as soon as possible altho it also appears to be a wrestling match as well; my bet is, sadly, that the settlement comes down to whichever of the two organizations has the deeper pockets. The settlement of a situation such as this potentially has far reaching effects for both parties as a group and the lack of same adversely affects related industries… on a more personal level the situation I think a lot of people really want to get back to work … so complicated…
In the meantime, from a selfish point of view, while I am not a a laid-off staff from a show (I am a “non-union” freelance location scout, location manager and photo shoot producer) or currently a crew member on involuntary hiatus from a feature film; overall, there is currently less work for everybody and more people potentially looking to do whatever work might avail itself, so while I am not “directly” affected, a situation such as exists does, in fact affect me, so I just wish we could all just “get back to work”!
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If you were (are?) a fan of the Sopranos (like me!), you might be very interested in this website (The Sopranos on Location) I found which has a theme based on the locations used for filming the aforementioned long-running and award-winning cable-tv series which aired new episodes beginning 1999 till June 2007.
I always liked the show personally and altho I never had the opportunity to work on the show (somebody on their production team called once but the call was interrupted and whatever was to be discussed between us never happened…) the show was always of interest to me professionally (as a location scout), as the majority of their filming locations over the years were in the New York City - northern New Jersey area, often just minutes from my office and places I drive past on a regular basis.
The Sopranos on Location website includes many production photos describing many of the local locations used for filming the show as well as various stories by property owners and fans of the show regarding their encounters with the production.
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MOFTB: Scouting Tag Program Discontinued
“May 23, 2006- Effective June 30, 2006, the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting will no longer issue production scouting tags and all existing scouting tags will expire. Due to the success of the “Made in NY” tax incentive program, the City has accomplished its goal of attracting increased production business and employment for New Yorkers who work in the entertainment industry. In an effort to balance the needs of production and the communities in which they work, the MOFTB will no longer issue scouting tags. Easing the impact of parking upon neighborhoods will serve to keep locations film friendly, and allow the City to attract even more employment for our local entertainment professionals. The MOFTB will continue to issue tags to essential production vehicles with the shooting permit.”
Cinematical | NYC Cuts Film Industry Perk | Posted Jun 13th 2006 8:01PM by Christopher Campbell | Filed under: Newsstand
“Just when the city of New York is enjoying a surge in film production, hopefully cutting down on movies set in NYC but shot in Canada, a new decision is pissing off a lot of people in the movie business.”
“The Reeler | Tag, You’re Out: NYC Location Scouts’ Parking Perks Revoked | June 13, 2006
“AM New York’s Chuck Bennett today has the “latest” on the troubles affecting New York’s location scouts, whose liberal, city-sanctioned parking privileges will expire June 30–never to return. The news is kind of old–the Mayor’s Office for Film, Theater and Broadcasting made the announcement May 23–but in case you wanted to hear location scouts bitching on the record, here you go:”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060614/ap_en_mo/film_scout_parking_2 (dead link) | By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 13, 8:11 PM ET
“NEW YORK - Film scouts trolling New York City for its picturesque stoops and street corners won’t be free to park wherever they want now that officials are halting a special parking-permit program.”
I was interviewed by phone today (but evidently, not quoted by name) by Sara Kugler from WABC-Radio in New York City. Here is some of what we discussed and points I tried to make:
Looks like we location scouts might be losing our location scouting tag priveleges come July.
“And what exactly is a location scouting tag privelege?”, you say?
Well… upon completing a New York City filming permit application at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB), requesting scouting tag(s) and approval of MOFTB, location scout(s), (for the duration of time allotted on the permit) have considerable leeway and freedom to park anywhere in the five boros in order to see locations with potential for use in their production.
This is indeed a gift in a city the size and density of New York. Public parking is scarce at best and fraught with not only arcane parking restrictions, but sometimes those arcane parking restrictions are obscured further by the fact that the parking signs that contain those arcane parking restrictiction are, in fact, often absent, whether it be by theft/vandalism, perhaps having been in a spot where an auto accident occurred… there are a lot of reasons a parking sign could be missing in a town the size of NYC.
The location scouting tag basically gives you the privelege to park wherever you can (with the intention of performing your duties as a location scout), provided you dont place human life in jeopardy (i.e. obvious no-no’s like parking in front of a firehouse driveway, or in an ambulance exitway) and be immune to the city’s ubiquitous “Brownies” (NYPD Traffic Enforcement) and the quite pricy parking citations they are employed to hand out (the last parking ticket I got some years back cost something like $85). If you receive a ticket, you turn it in with your scouting tag- it goes away.
Doctors and foreign diplomats, as well as some members of the press (this could be an incomplete list) are eligible for many of these same priveleges.
Alas, reports of abuses as well as the fact (per the excerpted article above) that the city has achieved its filming incentive goals combined with the undebatable fact that parking in New York is scarce in the first place may spell the end to scouting tag priveleges for NYC location scouts.
I had a scouting tag once; I was working on a feature film, 9A several years go. The shooting schedule was tight, we were facing significant challenges regarding fulfilling locations required by the script, including scouting for night shots (at night) in what most would consider “less than desirable” parts of town; the scouting tag helped. A lot.
Another argument for continuing the scouting tag privelege in NYC:
New York is a world-class city. Some of the world’s most famous films (including tv shows, commercials, videos and photgraphs) have been made in NYC.
As a location scout, one of the reasons you live in the NYC area is to have an opportunity to work on projects of this caliber.
It is not unreal to assume that you could, in fact, find yourself driving around NYC (showing locations) in the same car together with an Oscar-winning director or acclaimed director of photography, a producer you just read about in a tabloid and a bazillion-dollar net-worth executive producer or financier, with the power between them to give the nod or say no to bringing $100 million or more in jobs or business to the city. (This is “economic development”. It’s good for cities. Production is good at that. And production doesnt pollute the air and water.) Anyway, I am sure you can see the motivation to let these people feel special and get their jobs done quickly and easily.
In contrast, the film industry has changed a lot in the past few years, nowadays, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of smaller budget films in production in New York each year, thanks to the advent of the internet and digital imaging, which have effectively taken content distribution out of the hands of a few big-money players and put it into the hands of anyone with a passion to tell a story and can afford a camera, a crew, talent and their locations. Individually, these types of productions dont always spend that much, but as the sum of the parts, this group represents a sizable chunk of change in New York’s annual production income. It is this group that will be most affected by the scouting tag change, as they will have to figure into their budgets that their scouts will either have to pay for parking or for parking tickets. New York is already a fairly expensive town just to exist in, period; discontinuing the location scouting tag privelege could be one of many ways that production might have an incentive to go elsewhere. This is what is known as “runaway production”
It’s a couple of more weeks till the scouting tag priveleges are scheduled to go away. It’s been good.
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The Hudson Reporter - HOBOKEN REPORTER - 03/19/2006 - Look out your window at The Sopranos Popular TV show scouting local locations; residents talk about new season | By Mark J. Bonamo | Reporter correspondent 03/19/2006
“Charlie Krajewski Jr. is hoping that his Secaucus bar soon becomes a shooting location for the HBO TV mob drama The Sopranos, because a location scout recently stopped in to check the place out.”
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Rooftop Films | About / Mission Statement
“ORGANIZATION | Rooftop Films is a non-profit film festival and production collective that supports, creates, promotes, and shows daring short films worldwide and in a weekly summer rooftop film festival.”
Twitter updates from RooftopFilms / RooftopFilms.
RooftopFilms: Check out Rooftop Films’ July Schedule here: http://tinyurl.com/p7baah
Source: Twitter / RooftopFilms |
RooftopFilms: Just a handful of tickets left for Rooftop’s 4th of July “Americana” show, w/ fun films, free drinks, fireworks. http://bit.ly/1DT6c6
Source: Twitter / RooftopFilms |
RooftopFilms: Rooftop forecast: light rain possible. Show will go on, indoors or on the roof. Bring a light jacket or umbrella & we’ll try to be upstairs.
Source: Twitter / RooftopFilms |
Underground movies outdoors.
Duncan ( Holly Klein | 02:46 | Animation) callBrightcove(5724142001, 594, 445, "#ffffff"); Nonchalant animated protagonists rhyme their way through a grade school episode of getting the hots for someone as geeky as you. And then it gets kinda randy. Q&A…
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"If I was Google, I would feel lonely. People come to me, ask questions, and leave me when they are done." Kaz Nomura, aka PWRFL Power, is a vagabond musician who was born and raised in Japan. He studied music…
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Location Scout: Inside ‘Survivor’ | Monday, October 17, 2005
“After eight years, we still can’t get enough of the reality game show Survivor. We talked to the show’s executive producer, Tom Shelly, about what he looks for when he scours the planet, bugs and all.”
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On Location - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“On location is a term used to describe the filming of a television show or movie on a real site as opposed to a sound stage. The term is often mistakenly believed to mean that the production is being filmed on the actual location in which its story is set, but this is not necessarily the case.”
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