From the course: Lighting Design for Video Productions
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Scouting your location
From the course: Lighting Design for Video Productions
Scouting your location
Location scouting is a fundamental step in pre-production that will often have a significant impact on the flow of the production. It offers a unique opportunity to discover vantage points, anticipate lighting challenges and opportunities, and learn about the permits, gear, and crew that will be required in addition to many other factors. We're often surprised to see how many people ignore the critical step of location scouting. In cities like New York, things change, and they change fast. The park that you so fondly remember is now a parking lot, and that awesome abandoned building, well, it's now a luxury condo. With the current smart phone applications, you don't need to bring a lot of gear to survey your locations. Some of them provide interactive depth of field calculators, equipment and media management, shot logging and even virtual slates. Remember the time when you had to fly somewhere or hire local scout to research certain locations? With applications like Google Earth you…
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