A Slight Change in Plans
By Tony Vallone
So Friday, June 23rd, I was called and informed that a certain celebrity actor was interested in playing one of our roles. “Great”, I thought, “but why does the tone of this conversation feel so gloomy?”
As it turns out, using this actor requires moving a few days of production to Los Angeles. This means locking all new locations in a matter of days. At this point the reader should know that on Friday June 23rd, I was pretty much the only member of the production team available in LA. So I got to do the most death fun job in the world, location scouting!
After some creative brainstorming, Brad and I managed to minimize the primary locations required of this new actor from three to one. This means we really only need one good location and the other two can kind of be fudged in LA somewhere. Movie magic again.
I ended up covering a lot of miles in the Los Angeles area and finding a lot of cool locations. One of the requirements of the locations was that they had to be located in a business or commercial zoned area. This is because securing permits for anything in a residential area, especially for a night shoot, are insanely difficult because of noise ordinances. Kids need to sleep at 10pm. Of course if we had lots of money I’m sure we could have worked our way around it. Money: a different form of movie magic.
So Friday, June 23rd, I was called and informed that a certain celebrity actor was interested in playing one of our roles. “Great”, I thought, “but why does the tone of this conversation feel so gloomy?”
As it turns out, using this actor requires moving a few days of production to Los Angeles. This means locking all new locations in a matter of days. At this point the reader should know that on Friday June 23rd, I was pretty much the only member of the production team available in LA. So I got to do the most death fun job in the world, location scouting!
After some creative brainstorming, Brad and I managed to minimize the primary locations required of this new actor from three to one. This means we really only need one good location and the other two can kind of be fudged in LA somewhere. Movie magic again.
I ended up covering a lot of miles in the Los Angeles area and finding a lot of cool locations. One of the requirements of the locations was that they had to be located in a business or commercial zoned area. This is because securing permits for anything in a residential area, especially for a night shoot, are insanely difficult because of noise ordinances. Kids need to sleep at 10pm. Of course if we had lots of money I’m sure we could have worked our way around it. Money: a different form of movie magic.
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