nickcarr
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Phone Booth
I think I love scouting the desert so much because, while it seems like a lot of nothing, there’s >always< something interesting to find if you keep looking. Case in point from this morning: nothing, nothing, nothing, wait is that a phone booth under a Joshua tree?
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Same But Different
This is a good example of why it was actually quite hard to scout options for The Neighborhood Where All The Houses Look The Same for filming outside NYC. Because most of those tract developments date to the 40s-60s, restrictions on changes had long since lapsed… So you’d find a few homes down a cul-de-sac…
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Where All The Houses Look The Same
As a location scout, one of the most dramatic shifts I’ve seen in how a movie location is portrayed on screen in recent years is for The Neighborhood Where All The Houses Look The Same. From the 1980s through 2010s, tract neighborhoods have been consistently depicted in movies and TV shows as a sort of…
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Cattle Farms
Earlier this year, I did some industrial cattle farm scouting, and was surprised to find I could barely get anyone to answer the phone, let alone agree to consider filming. Even after showing my credentials, the response was absolute silence, and it was clear something was up. Turns out? Everyone thought I was an animal…