Thursday, April 01, 2010
On location filming in L.A. picks up in first quarter
Los Angeles Times: "A robust TV pilot season, a substantially improved climate for shooting commercials and the state's new film incentive helped deliver a modicum of good news to Los Angeles' beleaguered production economy in the first quarter."
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It is always good to see business pick up, especially in film and commercials when its been so slow. Perhaps it is just a small rise which will go down again, but one never knows. Maybe it is the end to the downhill turn it has been thus far. It is incredible how much people in every industry have been affected by this economic crisis, how many people have lost their jobs is astounding. Hopefully this is not giving false hope.
This seems like great news! If this batch of films/commercials are successful it will probably lead to many more projects. And the more projects there are the more technicians and designers are needed. I hope this means that the incentives are actually working and not just causing a rush up front followed by a windfall.
Being in such an elastic industry is scary sometimes. Articles like this are a reminder how a slow economy means less luxury items for people, which includes movies and things of that nature. It is good to see that improvements to the economy have helped our industry as well.
It will be interesting to see if the trend continues and production continues to stay on the rise. Hopefully by the time we graduate, the market will be ideal for fresh blood.
It's good that business is getting better for this company. It would be a shame if some of these television shows had to close because the economic situation has caused too much damage on this company's production, but it's nice to see that these shows can still thrive in the current economic climate and provide people with much-needed entertainment.
It is great to hear that California has finally got it's shit together and is offering the necessary tax incentives to keep film production in the state. Between this and voting to make marijuana legal (so CA can tax it) we should have no problem moving out of our state budget crisis. :p
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