Locations and Transportation in Movie Production

I have to call and tell Ridley there is going to be a dinosaur in the hall.

We adjusted."

He was finishing up work on Hannibal when he was offered the loca-

tion manager position on Hearts in Atlantis. "They asked me to come

replace someone. It was a hard show. We took over a community in the

small town of Stanton, Virginia. We had 13 homes at an intersection up on

the hill. We needed to be there for weeks. Because of the type of lighting

and how they were going to control the shade, they wanted the power

lines dropped or turned off so that there was no chance of the guys oper-

ating the big condors getting an electrical shock." It proved too time con-

suming to turn the power off and on each day, so the only solution was to

shut the power down for two weeks. "Which meant I had to bring in and

wire each house to a commercial silenced generator." Then, someone had

to deal with making sure the generators didn't run out of fuel.

After Hearts wrapped, Baxter accepted the position of production

manager for New Dominion Pictures. The company produces television

programming such as The FBI Files, The New Detectives, and Special Forces:

Untold Stories, for Discovery, The Learning Channel, and other cable

outlets. Baxter's next step will undoubtedly be producing.

Job Overview

A location scout is an individual who finds potential shooting locations,

photographs them, and obtains the owner's permission to shoot there.

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

Job Overview

The transportation coordinator is the head of the transportation

department and is responsible for obtaining and managing all vehicles

associated with a production, including big trucks, trailers for the

JOB TITLE: TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR

JOB TITLE: LOCATION SCOUT

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