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Lecture Hall
Some locations set such a high bar for filming, you might as well give up on on hoping to scout anything else as good. Case in point: this lecture hall at Columbia University, which has been in so many movies and TV shows, you’d assume all college lecture halls are like this. Everything about it…
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Filming at LAX
Me chatting with LAX about airport filming: Me: So can we film at X location? Rep: No, absolutely not. Me: How about at Y? Or Z? Rep: Certainly not. Me: OK. How about if you just let me know where filming is allowed? Rep: That’s not how it works. You tell me where you want…
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Love and Abandoned Missile Silos
Just a guy and a girl hitting it off at sunset, high above LA on a decommissioned Nike missile tower, with no one else around for miles… (Except an annoying movie location scout who was sent to take magic hour pictures and is totally killing the mood. Sorry guys…)
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House by the Cemetery
Once back in my NYC scouting days, I was working on a TV show that was planning to shoot at a cemetery in Brooklyn. As we were scouting it with the director, an apartment scene was abruptly added to the day’s work, and I was given an hour to find a cleared option for them…





