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Location Managers Guild

13 hours ago

Timmy Chinn, CBS’ longtime location manager for Hawaii Five-0 whose duties included the relaunch of Magnum P.I., is happy to share the “wheres” for many of the shows’ breathtaking backdrops but not the “whens” McGarrett or Magnum might be shooting a scene.

For many people, Waikiki Beach is synonymous with Hawaii, a fact not overlooked by CBS. “There’s a statue of [surfing legend] Duke Kahanamoku on Waikiki Beach. [Director] Bryan Spicer likes that,” Chinn said.

Waikiki Beach is the most likely place to spot the cast and crew, but it is not a closed set when filming is going on there.

“In Hawaii, the beaches are all public, so you can’t legally close a beach,” said Chinn, a Hawaii native. “When we get a permit, we’re allowed to ask people, ‘Can you stand back?’ In Waikiki, we’ll set up an area that’s off-camera if they want to watch.”

As many as 500 fans have been known to gather to watch the action, Chinn said.

“Generally, people are very cooperative,” he said.

For folks seeking even more insider knowledge on which episodes were shot where, various Hawaii Five-0 tours can be found online. ... See MoreSee Less

Here's where you're likely to see the filming of 'Hawaii Five-0' and 'Magnum P.I.' in Hawaii - Los Angeles Times

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Visit some of the locations popular with the directors of two TV shows filmed on Oahu.

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Location Managers Guild

2 days ago

We often hear stories about the Location Managers on big Hollywood features out of Los Angeles & London, so it's a treat to come across an article featuring up and coming regional names and faces in areas that usually only focus on the actors and directors. Here's an interview with Nigerian location manager Chinedu Arinze, who has made a name for himself in the Nigerian film community known as Nollywood.

Chinedu, who was part of Genevieve Nnanji‘s latest production ‘Lionheart‘, sits down with BellaNaija to discuss how he got his start as a location, the skills, and qualities required as well as what he wishes could change about Nollywood, and a whole lot more.

In Chinedu's opinion, "A good location manager should have excellent communication and sociable skills, this will enable you to relate with people well, which is a key factor. Also, be enthusiastic and reliable, this helps in convincing relevant authorities, property owners to permit you or approve their properties to be used as locations for a shoot."

As with Hollywood productions, "The first step to finding the perfect location is reading and understanding the storyline and its plot. The next step is to call or reach out to the Director to know what image he has envisioned for the scene. You should always get a conducive place," Chinedu says.

Something that location managers around the world can relate to, Chinedu finds that locations is an often overlooked department, "the industry should recognize and celebrate them like other departments in filmmaking because they’re the backbone of any production, and provide very important security. I remember in the early days of my career I got beaten up because of something on set that got damaged in a house that was leased to me." ... See MoreSee Less

#BNBehindTheScenes: 10 Questions with Chinedu Arinze, the Location Manager of Genevieve Nnaji’s “Lionheart”

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Location Managers Guild

3 days ago

Since Hollywood’s earliest days, filmmakers and actors have traveled to far-flung settings—or even just particularly striking local landscapes—to give their projects atmosphere and authenticity. But will the current shift toward VFX “locations” put an end to that tradition?

As this short video explores, the entertainment industry is at a crossroads. Sci-fi and fantasy fans can delight in the technological advances that have made it possible to set movies on other planets, or show superheroes displaying powers in ways that actual human stunt performers never could. But there’s also the danger of losing a sense of baseline realism, which is definitely a possibility when a live-action film essentially becomes a computer-animated affair with a few flesh-and-blood actors pasted in here and there.

Of course, projects with enough resources, like HBO’s Game of Thrones are able to balance both, bringing us natural beauty (Iceland! Malta!) and virtual wizardry (giant ice wall! DRAGONS!) And you have to assume that even the “real-world” scenes display some VFX tinkering, adding clouds in the sky or cliffs in the background, for instance. ... See MoreSee Less

Will VFX Erase Location Shooting Forever?

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Location Managers Guild

4 days ago

When a new movie or major commercial comes to town, the first person they meet with is a location scout. Sometimes they call the Oklahoma Film + Music Office to line it up; sometimes they talk to a friend in New York or Los Angeles who recently has filmed here. But the first question they always ask is, “Who is the best location scout?” Luckily for Oklahoma, the answer is Alison Naifeh.

“As a location scout, you get the script, you get the storyboards, and you start breaking down the script to figure out every location needed,” Naifeh explains. “Then you do your research: You go through county records, look over maps, reach out to city chambers and call around for contacts. Once you’ve done all of your research, then you get in the car and start actually looking at locations.

“During the scout, you take hundreds of photos. You come home, divide the photos into categories and build websites for each project so the producers, director and production designer can review everything and provide feedback. This part takes about four months. After that, the production team comes to town, and you drive them to all of the locations they find interesting. It can take another couple of months to agree on the perfect house or the perfect vista. Once you lock the hero locations, then the real location management work starts by getting contracts signed, figuring out where cast and crew will stay and finding secondary locations.

“For August: Osage County, the main location was a two-story, 1930s farmhouse,” Naifeh recalls. “Eighty percent of the movie was set in the house. It had to sit on 40 acres of land, have a great approach and have other structures nearby, like a barn or silo. We were competing with Georgia and Louisiana. We found a perfect 1933 Sears Roebuck house outside Bartlesville. After four months, they chose us; they chose to film in Oklahoma because of that house. It was magical.”

Since Twister, Naifeh has found iconic locations for I Can Only Imagine, waterfalls for The Veil, sand dunes for “American Gods” and farm houses for The Bygone, and even shut down I-35 for a highway chase scene in Yellow.

It is awesome having someone like Alison Naifeh be our first point of contact. Once she gets them into Oklahoma, they book hotels, rent cars, rent equipment, cater meals and hire hundreds of Oklahoma crew members and actors … all because of a not-so-little girl from Enid who still has stars in her eyes. ... See MoreSee Less

Film Scouting With Alison Naifeh - Location Managers Guild International

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When a new movie or major commercial comes to town, the first person they meet with is a location scout. Sometimes they call the Oklahoma Film + Music...

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Location Managers Guild

5 days ago

30 years ago, Beetlejuice raised haunting questions: Where is home? Where do you belong in the world and to whom do you belong? And what happens when you die? That surreal, sentimental amalgam is how a movie made for just $14 million became a Halloween classic, a Universal Studios theme park attraction, a Saturday morning cartoon and a Broadway-bound musical at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian Magazine takes a trip in search of the real star of the film: the hamlet of East Corinth, Vermont, population 926, the setting for the fictional town of Winter River, Connecticut, the place the Maitlands go to scary lengths to stay even after death. “It was stunning,” recalls Mary Galloway, Beetlejuice’s location manager, who also scouted spots in Massachusetts and Virginia. “There’s an energy, a kind of eccentricity that flourishes in those places.”

At the Corinth Historical Society Agricultural and Trades Museum, located on the town’s main street, Village Road, co-director Norm Collette volunteers to drive writer Holly Millea around town to see the legacy of Beetlejuice. The buildings are a little more rundown then when Hollywood descended in 1987, but the town has fared better than some seemingly bucolic New England villages. Too many have been hollowed out by industry and population loss until becoming little more than stage sets for visitors. East Corinth’s bobbin factory might be long gone, but the building has been reclaimed by a solar-powered hammock manufacturer, and, yeah, Norm says, it’s hard to convince the children who grow up here to return after college, but the minuscule population has actually grown a little over the last three decades thanks to artists, musicians and others eager to unplug.

Our destination is Paula Jewell’s family farm, where the film’s most recognizable fixture once stood—the Maitlands’ home, which in reality was a shell built for exterior shots. The huge, white, multi-level Victorian was erected high on a hill overlooking the village. “Everyone in town called the house ‘the castle,’” Norm says, as he steers the car onto a private road.

“I wasn’t here when they built it,” says Paula Jewell, 88, whose family has owned the property for three generations. She was away working at the B&M Beans factory in Maine at the time. The castle is long gone now. “My nephew took it down. My brother took some of it, built a little shed.”

Turning back onto Village Road, Norm says we could park and walk, but the sun is high and hot and he thinks it’s best to drive along the single block dotted with the film’s other locations. All are familiar from the first few minutes of the film, before the Maitlands’ untimely demise. Most of the rest of the movie and all of its hellish elements, including the desert crawling with gigantic sandworms and the “neitherworld”—a waiting room full of goners who expect to meet their maker, but instead must take a number to meet a caseworker—were filmed on a Hollywood soundstage. But tourists trek here, even 30 years later, because it’s the time Beetlejuice spends in the actual town that transforms the movie from a campy ghost story into something unexpectedly moving.

Norm slows down and points out the Masonic hall, which doubled in the film as Miss Shannon’s School for Girls, before driving over the since-renovated bridge where the Maitlands, swerving to avoid a dog, crashed into the river. A little farther down the road we see the old general store, which was transformed into Maitland Hardware Store. Once the oldest continuously operated general store in the state, it was sold 12 years ago to a flatlander who had big plans to restore the structure, but instead moved to Florida. It’s since gone to ruin—a total eyesore.

Right next door is Sarah Polli’s house, which played the part of Jane Butterfield’s Real Estate and Antiques in the film. (The Winter River Fire Department? That was her garage.) “Oh, it was very exciting,” Sarah says, sitting at her kitchen table with a high pile of photos taken during the ten days of filming in town. Among the pictures are a smiling 31-year-old Geena Davis flanked by her visiting parents, another of her holding an umbrella to protect her ghostly pallor, and another of the library, which was completely surrounded by a fiberglass facade to replicate the original library built in 1902. The old codger seen polishing faux lion statues in one photo—and in the movie—is Sarah’s uncle, Maurice Page. “All the actors just loved him,” she says. “He got royalties for years! Not much. He had one line: ‘Hey, how are ya?’”

My tour ends down the hill and across the street from where the castle once stood, at the Youngs’ house. A handsome couple, Neil and Louise were born and raised in East Corinth and have lived in their tidy home since their wedding 62 years ago. Neil, who served in the Army, worked in the bobbin factory and the granite plant, and spent 14 years as the chief of the fire department. At 88, he’s tied with his close friend Paula for the title of East Corinth’s oldest resident. Most nights Paula joins them for dinner. No surprise Neil shares her view of the film: “We went to White River Junction to see it. I think it was the biggest $5 bill I ever wasted.” ... See MoreSee Less

The Afterlife of Beetlejuice

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