ABSTRACT

You’ve finished the breakdown and you’re ready to start location scouting. Taking the words off the page and making them real places, real

people, real visual images is a gift. It is a thoughtful blending of creative

insight, practical applications, and respect for the production process. Location scouts are magicians and location managers are much like the

Wizard of Oz. In the movie The Wizard of Oz, we’re told to ignore

the man behind the curtain, the wizard who is pulling all the levers, controlling all the bells and whistles, making everyone in the land of Oz

content if not downright happy.