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.