Friday, December 08, 2023
Benefits of Obtaining a Film Permit
FilmLA: Though it has its share of global competitors, Greater Los Angeles remains one of the most convenient destinations for filmmaking, due in no small part to the film industry's long and celebrated presence here. On any given day, upwards of 120 simultaneous productions are underway in Greater Los Angeles. Even with this volume, a recent FilmLA survey found that, by and large, filming is welcome in local neighborhoods.
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I thought this article was really interesting. I do not know much about filming and film permits, so I enjoyed reading a bit about why one might get a film permit and understanding more about the purposes of them. I think it’s really interesting how a general assumption today is that basically whenever you are in public, you could be filmed and that could be put on the internet or released to the world. Every “asking someone a question on the street” tiktok video has so many people in the background and walking around that definitely didn’t specifically say “yeah it’s cool for you to post this.” Particularly with filming stuff in someplace like a neighborhood, I think it’s just a generally more polite action to give notice of filming through acquiring a film permit. Also, I agree particularly with the point that having a film permit definitely makes the film seem far more official.
This was so interesting to read, and contained a lot of good advice. I guess I haven’t thought about obtaining a permit much, though it clearly is very important (a big studio can’t just turn up anywhere one day and start shooting a film no questions asked). It was interesting reading about certain precautions, I guess I didn’t think about how many ‘accidents’ or big intense scenes happen in films, and how that could occur right out your window one day and you might think it to be real. Filming on locations definitely affects the communities that live there, and so it is so important to maintain a good relationship with those communities as well as being professional. I remember one time a show was being filmed a couple blocks from my school, and once in the train station, and I thought it was super cool, and wondered “why here?” Which funny enough made me more intrigued in the show itself (I guess it was unintentional publicity they were creating as well). However, I had a friend comment that the train stop near her home that she used to get to school each day was taken over for several weeks by a film, and it was quite frustrating as she had to go far out of her way to commute every day. And so there are clearly drawbacks and struggles to attempting to film in public locations as well.
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