Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James deacons

starting with a submitted question or topic and ending who knows where. We will also be joined by guests for some topics.

If you'd like to submit a question, email it to webmaster at Roger Deacons.com. Today's question is about location scouting on a feature.

Before a location is chosen, it has to be scouted to see whether it will work for the specific scene.

We talk about the many elements that go into a location scout.

So when you go on a location scout, what are you looking for? Are you looking for composition, lighting, the ease of actually shooting there?

What's on your mind when you walk into a location?

Well, you're thinking about all those things,

but why the initial, the earlier scouts are important

because it's really, you want time with the director and a

production designer just talking about how the scene is going to work conceptually

in the space you're looking at. And you know, I read the scripts and obviously I have

certain ideas on things and a feeling of how a scene could work.

And maybe I haven't talked with the director about it before we've scouted.

I mean usually you have, have some general conversation, but you know there's nothing like

standing in a room and it might not be the right room but then you

understand why it isn't the right room as you discuss it as you sort of talk about the

blocking that could happen with the scene and the mood of the space and what the

production designer could do with it to make it more in keeping with what's in the script,

you know in terms of dressing and that kind of feel a bit,

and then is that worth it? So a lot of the time it's even if the locations don't work at all for the film, it's kind of key to be there and be discussing it.

Because when you get 10 or 15 people on a scout, you rarely get the chance.

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