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Here are some photos from our latest “sniffing around” trip.  Over the life of a movie production, the team makes many trips to the shooting locations.  During the writing stage, it may be only the director as he/she gathers ideas to finish the script.  But once the production is officially under way, there follows many more trips. 

The early ones are called dom klin trips, which can be loosely translated as “sniffing around”.  This is for everyone: the cinematographer, production designer, costume designer, sometimes even the actors if they happen to be free.  Walking around sniffing the air is actually beneficial for everyone to get a feel for the place.

We take a lot of photos to see what the space feels like and what the possibilities are.  Sometimes a place we initially thought looked cool turns out to be problematic for some reason or another.  So it’s better to find this out during the sniffing around trip than an actual shoot when you have 50 crew members watching you squirm. 

This week we are doing the final preparation for the remainder of the shoot.  We have 9 days left.  But they are the most difficult 9 days of the production.  What makes a shoot difficult?  In a word…chaos.  That’s what you want to try and avoid at all costs.  Our locations are a night club and an airport.  That’s chaos, people.

~ by admin on January 29, 2010.

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