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Filming location

{{Short description|Place where a film or TV series is produced}}

File:Black Dahlia Film Shoot 3.jpg, June 2005, on Hollywood Boulevard.]]

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, instead of or in addition to using sets constructed on a movie studio backlot or soundstage.{{cite web |title=What is a filming location? |url=http://www.primeshootlocations.com/32/what-is-a-filming-location/ |url-status=dead |access-date=April 8, 2013}} In filmmaking, a location is any place where a film crew will be filming actors and recording their dialog. A location where dialog is not recorded may be considered a second unit photography site{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}. Filmmakers often choose {{citation needed|date=September 2020}}to shoot on location because they believe that greater realism can be achieved in a "real" place; however, location shooting is often{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} motivated by the film's budget. Many films shoot interior scenes on a sound stage and exterior scenes on location.

Types of locations

There are two main types of locations:

File:Hollywood Sign.jpgs in Hollywood, the movie neighborhood, before the development of location shooting.]]

History

Video cameras originally designed for television broadcast were large and heavy, mounted on special pedestals and wired to remote recorders in separate rooms. As technology improved, out-of-studio video recording was possible with compact video cameras and portable video recorders; a detachable recording unit could be carried to a shooting location. Although the camera itself was compact, the need for a separate recorder made on-location shooting a two-person job.{{cite web | url = http://www.totalrewind.org/cameras/C_SFP3.htm | title = Separate camera and recorder; First VHS-C camcorder | access-date = 2020-11-02 | date = 2007-09-14 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081016045848/http://www.totalrewind.org/cameras/C_SFP3.htm | archive-date = 2008-10-16 }}

Substitute locations

It is common for films or television series to be set in one place, but filmed in another, usually for reasons of economy or convenience, but sometimes because the substitute location looks more historically appropriate.

Some substitute filming locations, and the corresponding film setting, include:

Image gallery

File:Weird Science house north view.JPG|The house used in the 1985 teen film Weird Science as well as the 2001 films Not Another Teen Movie and Donnie Darko.

File:Ferris Bueller house northeast view.JPG|The house used in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The house was also used in the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie and the 2002 film Red Dragon.

File:American Pie house west view.JPG|The house used in the 1999 film American Pie.

File:Donnie Darko house northwest view.JPG|The house used in the 2001 film Donnie Darko.

File:Mount Carmel High School (Los Angeles) pic.JPG|Mount Carmel High School, the school was demolished at the end of Rock 'n' Roll High School.

File:ChaplinIdleClassThenAndNow.jpg|Charlie Chaplin in the 1921 film The Idle Class, filmed on location at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, California and the same location today.{{Cite web |last=Bungo |first=Chris |date=2024-05-03 |title=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now |url=https://ChrisBungoStudios.com |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now |language=en-US}}

See also

References

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External links

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