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Locations: What to look for, what to avoid, making room for gear, COIs

Locations: What to look for, what to avoid, making room for gear, COIs

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Locations: What to look for, what to avoid, making room for gear, COIs

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- In this next chapter, we'll talk about location planning. Preparing talent, planning your schedule, and other important logistics. Let's start with locations. This is really one of my favorite topics, because what happens on location obviously affects the outcome of your shoot so much, and there's a lot you can do to plan in advance. For example, one of the things you want to look and listen for is locations that have some connection to your main characters and your content of your story. So you don't want to just stick people in a conference room if that's not really connected to what they do everyday. One of the things you want to also think about is, how does the location sound? It's surprising to many people who don't work on crews all the time how loud offices and other environments that we work and live in are. And what I mean by loud is, there might a hum of a refrigerator, or a hum of a copier machine, and it's just something that you block out and you don't notice when…

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