- Aug
- 13
- 2008
awake o’sleeper: location scouting
10:28AM by Brandon McCormick | Cetagories: News and Updates
Location scouting is probably one of the enjoyable parts of preproduction, but it can also be one of the most important. The location is the world that your film will take place in. It can be a pre-made set or a pre-existing place that you modify. Pick it wrong, and the whole texture of your piece will be off. Choose an alley that’s too clean and you wont get that gritty feel, pick a spot in the city that’s too modern and you’ll lose that ‘timeless’ feel you’re trying to achieve. One power-line, and you’re not in the middle of nowhere, you’re just playing in someone’s back yard.
For Awake O’Sleeper we wanted to have a very desolate looking place. It had to be specific, a gravel road, a field and lots of woods and kudzu. This seemed like an impossible mix, and it was looking like we were going to have to split the production up to accommodate the looks we were going for.
This is really where the act of going exploring really pays off. A lot of us on the team love to just traipse off into the woods from time to time, just to play. Most of our locations are found this way, just from good old fashioned ‘play’. This location was brought to us by Nick, it’s in a wildlife reserve called ‘RiverWalk’ up near Chatue Elan. Just so happens it also backs into Nick’s neighborhood.
The location for Awake O’sleeper is the perfect mix for us. Desolate enough to work, and close enough to civilization so we can go to the bathroom. Looks like it’s gonna be a great shoot. See you out there!
Photography by Luanne Dietz. Thanks Luanne!!!
Tags: awake, filmshoot, location, o'sleeper, scouting, sleeper
August 13th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Awesome B! Can’t wait! When you mentioned gravel road it reminded me of Billy as the old blind man from Alabaster. Also the outtakes!