First chose your
location… or rather first choose the right Location Manager
who will chose the right location not just for the way it looks
but for the way it works: full consideration must always be given
to what action is intended to be filmed and how it is intended to
be shot. All too often locations are chosen without the benefit
of a Location Manager’s advice and without sufficient time
to set the location up properly with the result that the eventual
shoot is compromised.
With the right choice of location a lot can be achieved given
enough time. The FiLM Office enabled the filming of a bank robbery
on the edge of the City of London during the working week. Shots
were to be fired and the Metropolitan police were concerned about
the consequences should anyone think it a real event. The
FiLM Office set up a protocol to manage the shoot which not only
satisfied Scotland Yard but has been since quoted by them as the
way to manage such shoots in future.
