Comments on: TZ31 – Location Scouting

By: Take Zer0 - Everything you need to know before take one

Take Zer0 - Everything you need to know before take one — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:09:19 +0000

By: esotericsean

esotericsean — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:09:14 +0000

@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).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:03:01 +0000

Whoops. That first sentence should end: “you just need the permission of the owner of that property.”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:01:31 +0000

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.

By: Carver

Carver — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:23:16 +0000

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.