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  • Aug
  • 13
  • 2008

awake o’sleeper: location scouting

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.
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