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

- 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 …