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Euphoria: Scouting Alamo’s Silver Slipper Club
Euphoria S3 E2 locations! 530 days after I took scout photos of a vacant strip mall on the side of a lonely highway, here it is in all its glory as Alamo’s Silver Slipper club. NEVER could’ve imagined it’d turn out looking this great, thx to some insane production design… Sometimes, you scout real strip…
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DIFFICULT NEIGHBOR
I’m scouting a craftsman home for a small advertising job when the homeowners give me a warning. “Just so you know, our neighbor hates that we do so many shoots,” they say in hushed tones. “He can be difficult.” I’ve met many, many “difficult neighbors” in my twenty years of working on film shoots. And…
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PERFECT ROOFTOP PT. 2
So that story I told yesterday, about the time I nearly lost my job on a Tony Scout movie by suggesting a roof without an elevator? I did indeed find a replacement Tony liked – but that’s NOT where we filmed. Because there’s one more very unexpected part to the story… Day of the shoot.…
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PERFECT ROOFTOP PT. 1
People think the hardest part of being a location scout is finding the perfect location, but the tricky thing is actually understanding what “perfect” is. I learned this the hard way on one of my earliest scouting assignments… The movie is the Taking of Pelham 1-2-3. Tony Scott. Tony wants a rooftop with a view…