All posts tagged "location scouting"
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Making a Scene: A No-Drama, No-Frills Primer to the Criminally Overlooked Process of Location Scouting
Everyone is acutely aware of the creative impact that cinematographers, editors, production designers, and even the glamour squad can bring to a film’s final product. That’s...
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How They Did It: Juggling Three Hats to Make the 12-Day, Five-City Feature Toss It
How did Michele Remsen write, direct, produce, and act in her first feature film Toss It? Not a big enough question. How did she shoot the five...
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On the Lookout For Your Next Location? Don’t Forget These Eight Keys to Foolproof Scouting (Video)
When scouting for locations, moviemakers automatically consider what’s going to be in the frame, but sometimes tend to forget that what’s out of it will be of equal importance...
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How They Did It: Thriller Ascent to Hell Made a Small Location Feel Large Through Careful Planning
When I closed my eyes I could see it: a factory capable of holding more than 500 workers throughout its three levels. Enclosed stairways connecting...
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Casting Your Location: How to Find (and Keep) a Great Location For Your Film
The right location can make a film, the wrong location can break it. Recently, my family went looking for a home in the foothills of...
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Cinema Law: Location Permission
Q: The trailer for my first film was recently posted online. A brief scene in the movie (which also appears in the trailer) was filmed...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...