bye-bye location

[Matulis]

Crap! Big, steaming piles of keeeee-rap!

Yesterday, my lighting buddy and I head over to the location I'd arranged for (hoped for, to be more accurate... my fault, I know) to start setting up for what was to be today's shoot, only to find out that this awesome room, which hasn't been touched in years, is suddenly under construction!!! Welders, equipment - nightmare. So now my last-minute shoot has gotten even more drastically last-minute... assuming I can even find a location for next Saturday.

Any Los Angeles dwellers willing to offer a suggestion as to where I can find a grungy, run-down, industrial, pipes-n-wires type room for next weekend? I'm desperate. And poor. Help!

-Marti

[Barry_Green]

where I can find a grungy, run-down, industrial, pipes-n-wires type room for next weekend
Sounds pretty much like Jarred's new apartment. He just moved to CA and found out that rent money doesn't go quite so far in Los Angeles as it does in Canada...


(okay, sorry, pointless post, just had to take a swipe at the ol' Sasquatch) :)

[dougspice]

How big?

[Matulis]

one actor... one actress... one chair... one fig-rig... DVX DOF... mmm, I can get away with about 15'x15' min. One door. Would love two doors.

[Matulis]

He just moved to CA and found out that rent money doesn't go quite so far in Los Angeles as it does in Canada...

Ain't that the truth!! I'm 8 years in and ready to get the hell outta here!

-M

[dougspice]

Well, the basement of my apartment building would probably do the trick. It's an early 1920's building and the basement is pretty much terrifying. There's giant old industrial doors and a few rooms with machinery, also electrical rooms. I shot a very cool scene in one of those smaller rooms for a short a few years back. Unfortunately it's now very cluttered with stuff, and I don't think you'd be able to get a permit, but you'd probably have no challenge sneaking it all in if it were at night.

The basement of my office building, on the other hand, would blow your mind. However, there's no chance you could shoot there without a permit and I believe they do the whole EIDC shebang.

[Matulis]

Well, the basement of my apartment building would probably do the trick.

I'd love to take a look if you have time to show it, or some digital pics. I get out of work by 1pm and can be anywhere within 30 min. (Gotta love the motorcycles) Just send me an email and I'll pass you my cel #. Thanks!

-M

[Matulis]

Here's one half of the room I lost. I would like to get something fairly close to this look and feel, if possible:

http://homepage.mac.com/martimatulis/.Pictures/misc/IMGP0875.jpg

[dougspice]

I think you'll like my building just fine, then. I'll let you know when I'm home.

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Did you get it sorted?

Same thing could have happened to us -- all locations stolen including 3 day shoot at an abandoned warehouse intertior.

Another place we shot, which was just an iron beam frame of a building - few peices of the wall or ceiling intact after Katrina- WAS BULLDOZED COMPLETELY FLAT THE DAY AFTER WE WRAPPED THERE! The Building was on a parkinglot and I mean you could never tell it was even there. I had thought about getting one additional pickup there but happenstance has curtailed my perfectionism. Oh well. If I make a DVD I'll get a shot or a pick of the blank space where our location was.

[Matulis]

Funny how these things work... or don't work. I actually found that after all the construction stuff was finished I could still shoot around the new pipes and boilers with some creative camera angles. However, my actress got a real gig last weekend and is in Sundance this week and there's NO WAY in hell I could shoot this Saturday and get everything shot, cut, colored, effected, scored, compressed and delivered in 4 days. So I'm out. Dammit. But it is still in the works, just for fun. I'll post a link when it's done.

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Sorry aobut that man...damn!