Location release

Yeah, find another location. People are obviously nosey around there and it sounds like even if you do do everything right you'll have problems.

Good luck!
 
Gah, i've had the same problem before.

So I found this awesome abandoned "blown out" house (roof caving in, windows shattered, tall weeds all around and a cemetery in the back yard) perfect for the horror script I had.

I went all over the place tracking down the owners of such a property. Fire hall, city hall, yellow pages, white pages, relatives. etc.

I finally found the owner. She had to have been in her late 70s and lived a few counties over. I called her, explained the situation, and she said it was alright for me to film there. Great! Although, she went and asked a neighbor of the house to cut the lawn.

There goes my awesome location :-/

So this year I have another script I want to film in the same location. Unfortunately, a development company purchased it. They are impossible to get a hold of.
 
End of Fall said:
Should I fake a location release or should I scatch the idea of the location.

The band paid us 3500 to shoot the music video, they like the location and to my knowlage they're not going to use the video on MTV so I doubt the real owners would ever see.
I feel I've been paid I need to give them the goods, they bought a video and they want this location I should give it to them.
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You should at this point, if this is the "ONLY" location you have...

1) Refund the fee you were charging.
2) Do not under any circumstances 'fake' or 'represent' to any law enforcement officer any form of 'permission'. Doing so, you make perhaps a misdemenor crime, of simple tresspass, creating a nusance, or what ever, into a felony in most states.
(I think even entering the house, would be a felony but that could depend on the state, and time of day... like day time 'house breaking' could go misdemenor or felony, at night, 'burglery' and 'felony'...)

3) If you don't want to refund the money, then... Greenscreen and drop a picture of a similar house in, gotten from a stock photo source... add filters to the resulting image to screw it all up, so as to be 'edgy'... it may take you 2-300 extra hours, but
 
Well - at this point you're probably best off following your own advice from your original post:

End of Fall said:
Run our shots through the motion and if any police show up, we'll explain that we're not breaking anything but in fact shooting a music video.

Show them that I tried to contact the owner but I ran out of luck. I'll apologize, then call it for the day and use what I have for that location.
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And next time - make certain you get permission to shoot in a location so this doesn't happen again, especially on a paying gig.
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