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Don’t Turn On The Lights
I was scouting an old military fort once to get some creepy tunnel locations for a horror movie. The first tunnel (one of the best in the NYC area imo) was well lit… But after a point, the electricity didn’t work, and we were left in total darkness as we explored the maze of rooms.…
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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…