Location, Location, Location...

SHOW your locations, especially when you have them.

No one will ever know how amazing you locations are, nor how beautiful the places you film, if you don't show them. Shooting Phobia, we were granted almost unlimited access to The University of Tampa.

Our one limitation was that we were not to shoot one very distinctive part of the campuses architecture. That was not a problem. I walked through with my DP and we discussed what to shoot and how to shoot it.

We were given a few rooms specifically, then allowed access to other rooms or any areas that did not interfere with the summer students' activities. We filmed in many different areas of one floor and then we were able to shoot in two different offices. We also shot six different locations outside on the university grounds.

The problem was that we did not get establishing shots. I had asked my crew to get the shots, but not followed up on them. We have these beautiful locations but no wide establishing shots to give the viewers the feeling of where we truly are.

If you have great locations, or even if you don't, get the best establishing shots that you can... and get quite a few of them.

Don.

PS. In life, you must follow up on everything. Or, its your fault.