Vegas Film Permit Question

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hua02

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Has anyone here shot DVX footage of conferences/etc. in Vegas and if so, did you get a permit or insurance?
I will be shooting a conference in Vegas soon and was just wondering. I will be a one man crew with most likely my dvx, tripod and some mics.
I also wanted to get some footage of the strip, just handheld, and was wondering the same thing about permits/insurance for that.
Any replys would be appreciated.
 
You can shoot the strip all you want without a permit, as long as you don't use a tripod. Put a tripod down and you become a hazard, you need a permit for that.

Permits are free, but insurance isn't and you'll need insurance if you want to get a permit. Frankly you'd be rather foolhardy to run a professional production without some insurance in place anyway; this is a highly litigious society and people nowadays look at any opportunity to get injured as a way to "win the lottery" so to speak.

Contact the film office (www.nevadafilm.com) for permit instructions. If you're shooting a conference indoors on private property you won't need a permit, but you will need permission from the conference itself. And if it's taking place on a union property you may have union issues. And most hotels are under a contract with Encore Productions (or someone like them) to supply all A/V services so if you try to do video services on an Encore hotel's property you may find yourself in trouble with Encore (who may demand that you leave and the company hire Encore to do it, or that the company pay an equivalent number of Encore employees to "shadow" you...)

It's not a big deal, especially if you're a one-man band. But if you bring in a full crew and try to do a non-union full production at a union hotel, you may very well run into problems, and if you try to do a non-hotel-video-crew production at a hotel that's covered by an agreement for in-house video services, you may run into a problem there too.
 
Barry_Green said:
It's not a big deal, especially if you're a one-man band. But if you bring in a full crew and try to do a non-union full production at a union hotel, you may very well run into problems, and if you try to do a non-hotel-video-crew production at a hotel that's covered by an agreement for in-house video services, you may run into a problem there too.
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So it's not a big deal to get a permit or it's not a big deal to contact the hotel/conference? I'm a little confused.
 
Either one. Getting a permit is a fairly streamlined process, as long as you go to the film office and tell 'em what you're doing, and you have insurance, it's not hard to do.

Talking to the hotels to find out what's allowed is fairly easy, but if you're talking about shooting a particular convention or show or whatever you really need to be talking to whoever's in PR for that show.
 
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