Location Location Location

Location Location Location

There are two expensive
components to a film shoot.
Image capture (camera) and
the locations. Moving a cast and crew from
location to location is time
consuming, and expensive,
regardless of your budget. If you can reduce the amount
of location moves, or
eliminate them altogether,
then you are a huge step
closer to reducing your
budget. Locations in this scenario
suddenly have a huge impact
on the script. To learn how,
we need only to look at some
of the most interesting films
of the last few decades: Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs,
Kevin Smith’s Clerks, Spike
Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It , Orin
Pelli’s Paranormal Activity and
George Romero’s Night of the
Living Dead. These films have one thing in common: limited
locations. In fact, they would
each make excellent stage
plays. The trick, it seems, is to
take a bunch of actors to a
limited location and chop them up. When you do this,
you will essentially be filming
a stage play.But a stage play
filmed as a stage play is
boring. Turn your limited
location script (which is essentially a stage play) into a
movie successfully, and you
will have, what the moguls in
Ghallywood call, Talent.