This job takes us to some weird and wonderful places. I've shot up a mountain, underwater, in forests, in a desert, and in an abandoned hospital the location manager swore blind wasn't haunted (we've agreed to disagree on that one). What's the most unusual location you've ever shot in, and where would you like to shoot, given the chance?
Producing : Location, location! by Suzanne Garnett
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In an AZ ghost town, deep within an abandoned silver mine and a ski run in the back bowl at Vail.
A couple of years ago I helped a friend who's an Indie Director with a project set in the Louisiana swamps. Day one of shooting the lead actress is in thigh deep, muddy water (wearing shorts I might add) waiting for the male lead to wade out to where she's standing. A very big snake swims right between her legs. She never blinked or twitched, just watched it swim away, looked at us and smiled. We never started shooting that day because we had to shut down and find a new male lead. He refused to go in the water after seeing the snake.
The desert of Yuma, where the sand was so silty we had to install military grade netting to hold it together so we could drive to an even more remote section of desert. Good times!
Shooting an indie short on the set of a Hallmark film also shooting, at a park in Beverly Hills. They didn't know we weren't part of their crew and the locations dept even opened up a fountain for us to appear in the background. Ahhh...the guerilla filmmaking days...