Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a follow up to Sonny, Atlanta was starting to be a major location for films. Until the city got full of itself and started charging fees and making sure it went at full union rate. If you have to pay Hollywood rates why not shoot it in Hollywood? Talk about telling an industry to get lost. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 7/16/06, SonC@aol.com <SonC@aol.com> wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/16/2006 8:40:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > lrzeitlin@optonline.net writes: > > If a site adds value > to a photographic project, it is simply good business practice for the > location to recover a portion of that added value. > > > ================ > > > > > > Conversely, if a photo shoot or a film add value to a location, it > is better > business practice to forgo location fees. > > In our little town we have had several feature film crews here in the past > year shooting. We contract for police details, and clean-up, but to my > knowledge there is no location fee. The state of Louisiana provides tax > and other > incentives for producers to come here. > > Steel Magnolias was shot entirely here, and we still get tourists coming > to > see the locations, in fact, the prime locations are on a buggy tour. > > Most locations, in my experience, if you go to them early, and present > some > credentials will give you pretty free access. > > You know that the U.S. Capitol Grounds has a prohibition against tripods; > I > have shot on the back stairs with a tripod. How did I do it? I applied > for > a permit from the capitol police three days before the shoot. > > > > Regards, > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > Natchitoches, Louisiana > Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane > ?galit?, libert?, crawfish > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >