I’m helping out some friends with their film as a script supervisor. Filming starts in 8 days and they haven’t secured all of their locations and most significantly not the location they need in 8 days. When I was a producer I wouldn’t schedule production dates until all locations had been secured and all actors, even extras, had been cast. I mention actors because I helped out on another production that was still looking for extras in scenes that needed up to 40 or more extras and they had less than a week to find them. That was chaotic! On productions where I was the producer we would storyboard based on locations we secured. Shouldn’t ALL locations be 100% secured before production dates are scheduled or am I just being too regimented?
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No. That is often not practical and often not required.
It's ideal, not realistic, especially in indie-ville. Furthermore, if you were totally reliant on locations pre-locked, that almost gaurantees Murphy's Law will make sure you lose a location. What is more pertinent is that the shot list or storyboards make sense, and you review locations as selected to make sure things will cut- things like the style and swing of a door that plays in 2 locations interior to match exterior, or screen direction of travel within story and coverage from scene to scene.
I'm just a writer and not a cameraman.
But, if you're talking about the sites not being secure, I'm making an assumption you;;re shooting Guerilla -- there's a lot of info on the net from people that talk about this.
Permits are very expensive depending on your city -- the downside is you have to be ready to drop all your gear and run.