In Burbank, I often drive by this park where, last year, Ron Howard and wife Cheryl made a very sweet donation on their 50th anniversary: this kissing chair, two beautifully engraved bronze chairs reversed so a couple can sit and face each other. There s only one problem Someone made the really, really poor decision [ ] The post The Kissing Chair appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Some locations set such a high bar for filming, you might as well give up on on hoping to scout anything else as good. Case in point: this lecture hall at Columbia University, which has been in so many movies and TV shows, you d assume all college lecture halls are like this. Everything about it [ ] The post Lecture Hall appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Me chatting with LAX about airport filming: Me: So can we film at X location? Rep: No, absolutely not. Me: How about at Y? Or Z? Rep: Certainly not. Me: OK. How about if you just let me know where filming is allowed? Rep: That s not how it works. You tell me where you want [ ] The post Filming at LAX appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Just a guy and a girl hitting it off at sunset, high above LA on a decommissioned Nike missile tower, with no one else around for miles… (Except an annoying movie location scout who was sent to take magic hour pictures and is totally killing the mood. Sorry guys ) The post Love and Abandoned Missile Silos appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Once back in my NYC scouting days, I was working on a TV show that was planning to shoot at a cemetery in Brooklyn. As we were scouting it with the director, an apartment scene was abruptly added to the day s work, and I was given an hour to find a cleared option for them [ ] The post House by the Cemetery appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
One thing I love about scouting on crime shows is when they ll ask the locations department for fresh ideas on where to stage a murder. I ve always thought the maze of tires you find at mom-and-pop auto repair shops could make a pretty solid option… The post Staging A Murder appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Single-handedly responsible for making movie-goers around the world think this is what all LA streets must look like. The post Iconic LA Filming Location #542: Hillcrest Road @ Carmelita appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Here s another example of how hard it is to shut off the location scout part of my brain when watching old movies. I m watching Pickup on South Street, the 1950s noir I mentioned yesterday. Set in NYC, it was actually filmed in LA, as seen in this shot staged on Grand Like most films of [ ] The post The Mysterious POV appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .
Whenever I watch an old movie that was shot on location, it s really hard to stop the location scout side of my brain from constantly trying to figure out how people did my job 70+ years ago. Here s an example from a 1953 noir called Pickup on South Street . And here s what goes on in [ ] The post New York Noir IN LA: The Filming Locations of Pickup on South Street appeared first on Nick Carr /…
People always ask, so what big actors have you met as a location scout? And I ll always lie and drop a few big names, because that s obviously what they want to hear. But what I m actually thinking about are moments like the time I was scouting a midcentury house outside LA The owners are showing [ ] The post Exorcisms and Tennis appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .