TZ31 – Location Scouting
The garage became stuffy, so we decided to head out and get some fresh air.
No, this isn't location scouting in the professional, industry term, where often paperwork and legal matters become involved. We mean it in the way that guerrilla filmmakers mean it: "We don't have a permit. Run!" (0:22). Not everyone can pay up to city hall or be insured. Sometimes the best way is to wing it without [official] permission, and hope nobody cares. This may sound like inept advice, but the realm of independent filmmaking is without many luxuries...
Heh, is texting on you cell not illegal there? Because in New Mexico it definitely is. And I think I speak for everyone who uses take zer0 when I say how much I appreciate not having advertisements on the site.
Interesting thin about the moon. It has to do with the fact that a camera sees the moon’s actual position, where our eyes see it’s position due to defraction of the light. Sort of the same idea how when we see the sun just setting, it is already past the horizon, the light is just refeacting and defracting (in essence bending) around the earth at a slight angle.
If you shoot on private property, you just need the permission. The city permit is only for if you shoot on public property, including roads or sidewalks.
One shot in North by Northwest, Hitchcock shot guerrilla style because he couldn’t get a permit to shoot in front of the U.N. buildings, so he shot from inside a van parked across the street. Ghostbusters had some shots during a montage of the Ghostbusters running around New York where they didn’t get permits; one of them has someone chasing them to make them leave. It Came from Beneath the Sea is a movie about a tentacle monster attacking San Francisco. The city was uncooperative because they didn’t like the idea of a monster destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, so the film-makers shot footage of the bridge from a van. So sometimes even productions more legitimate than Ed Wood will resort to guerrilla.
The moon’s light is going to bend around the horizon whether or an eye or a camera is looking at it. Any difference to the light from the moon can only occur once it hits the lens of the eye or camera.
Whoops. That first sentence should end: “you just need the permission of the owner of that property.”
@Carver: Yeah, the law just passed a couple months ago I think. Do not look up to me as a safe driver
@Ryan: Pretty interesting, I knew some major films have shot without permits, but I didn’t know about Ghostbusters or North by Northwest. And that’s good to know about private property (I was under the assumption you still needed permission from the city).