Keep a lookout for people on the lookout for film locations. Film industry
location scouts are out and about looking for property to star in motion
pictures, TV shows, music videos, documentaries, and pretty much everything
else. I located a few resources below.
Film location services are available throughout the entire Southern
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They provide online film location and movie locations image galleries feature
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The images also features commercial location properties including: art
gallery, auto repair shops, automotive repair facilities, banks, banquet halls,
bars, beauty salons, billiard halls, bowling alleys, buildings, cafes, car
dealership showrooms, clubs, coffee shops, convenience stores, costume shops,
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factories, film location, fitness clubs, galleries, gas stations, gyms,
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medical practices, motels, movie locations, movie theaters, nightclubs, offices,
retail stores, restaurants, theatres, warehouses, and more.
David
Schoner, production coordinator for the NJ
Motion Picture & Television Commission, talks to TV
production and digital photography students at Central Regional High School on
Wednesday. (STAFF PHOTOS: SHAWN HUBER)
BERKELEY — Leeann Montalbano thinks Mill Creek County Park
might make a great location for a movie. With a view of Barnegat Bay, the
secluded park off Chelsea Avenue includes a playground, a pavilion, trails and
benches.
Montalbano, an 18-year-old senior at Central Regional High School, and her
classmates will serve as location scouts for the New Jersey Motion Picture and
Television Commission as they take still shots of interesting places in their
communities that might be suitable locations for feature films, documentaries or
television commercials.
As a student in Leslie Mangold-Brown's television production class,
Montalbano said she is ready for the challenge.
"I hope to attend Rutgers and major in film studies," she said.
"I'd like to be a technical director."
David W. Schoner Jr., production coordinator for the commission, said in 2007
the commission brought $121 million into the state through its mission to make
New Jersey a destination for shooting movies, television shows and commercials.
"New Jersey is actually considered to be the birthplace of filmmaking
because Thomas Edison developed the kinetograph, which was the prototype for the
modern film camera, in the 1890s," Schoner told the students before he
showed them a short documentary about the history of movie making in the Garden
State.
Today, New Jersey is the fifth-busiest state in terms of filmmaking, he said.
Schoner talked about dozens of feature films that were shot in the area,
including "The Amityville Horror" in 1978, "Friday, the
13th" and "Atlantic City" in 1979, "Annie" and "Creepshow"
in 1981, "Casino" in 1995, "A Beautiful Mind" in 2001,
"Catch Me if You Can" in 2002 and "War of the Worlds" in
2003.
He described how to go about shooting a building or area to be used as a
location shot, telling the students to make sure they put the digital camera on
a tripod, make sure they are accurate in giving the location of the shot, and
take a wide shot of the building but no details.
Digital photography teacher Terri Wyman said the students have come up with
lists of possible locations they would like to capture with digital cameras.
She will be working with them to "stitch" them together using the
Photoshop program but I guess not before the amazon
kindle 2 just arrived.
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