New York City Area film location scouting and film location management

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About location scout and location manager R. Richard Hobbs

April 6th, 2006

I am a New York City Area location scout for film, photo, tv and video. I have been involved in production for photography, film, tv and video in one way or another for about 15 years.

Most of the projects I am involved in are commercial or editorial in nature and would be considered business-to business, as opposed to business-to-consumer, (as in wedding or portaiture photography projects- altho I am occasionally hired to find or reccommend location venues for social events) and the areas of the media industry I work in are generally considered preproduction (that is before the media is actually finished and presented). Production crew is also considered to be "below the line" or beneath the executive level, as in, say, the president or ceo of a tv network or even the executive producer of a production company ("suits";-). My level of involvement is very hands-on in some of the basic elements that make up a finished piece of media. Suffice to say I work in a "niche" industry and what I do is somewhat arcane to most people outside production circles; in fact there are some production titled folks that never seem to know exactly what the locations department does;-)

Rather than do a whole rewrite here, just follow the links on this page to  the Wikipedia articles if you are curious what a location scout or a location manager does. (By the way, yours truly started the location scouting article:-).

I have a pretty good collection of bookmarks at del.icio.us (here) that are mirrored several places, such as here, here, here and here.

In addition to my "corporate blog", I blog and make link notes about location scouting and film production pretty regularly here and here.

I have appeared on tv on WABC-TV (New York, NY) in a piece about film locations  and I wrote a feature article  for Movie Maker Magazine for their 2005 Beginners Guide to Making Movies (2005 seems to be out of print now, but the 2006 Movie Maker Magazine Beginner's Guide to Making Movies is available at this writing.

I have lectured on the subject of film location management and I have given a Location Scout/ Manager Workshop for The Learning Annex in New York City.

I live and have an office in Clifton, NJ which is about 10 miles west of Manhattan. This is a very convenient location for me: besides spending a considerable amount of time online, on the phone and working on the computer to correspond with clients and resources, I often need to be in the field and being close to Manhattan without being >in< Manhattan works very well for me. I can be in New York City fairly quickly and at the same time a lot of suburban and rural (yes, I said rural) and even wilderness resources (yep) that require an automobile to get to are more easily accessible from outside the city. I am sure there are those out there that beg to differ but, hey, this set-up works just fine for me. Long Island can be a schlep sometimes, butcha cant have >everything!

New York State, New York City and New Jersey all have hard-working, knowledgeable, efficient film offices, so those are big plusses in the work category. I dont speak with the Connecticut , Philadelphia or Pennsylvania State Film Offices quite as often as I do NJFilm, MOFTB and NYSFilm,  but they have great film offices as well.


For more about me (and location scouting), visit some of the sites below and follow some of the links to here or maybe here:


nyc.locationscout.us

www.photoshoot-production.com

profiles.yahoo.com/rrhobbs.geo


That was probably more than enough about me- Going forward, there will basically be a lot of location scouting and film production stuff in this lens. 

R. Richard Hobbs




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locationscout linkit 

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locationscout linkit an editable pages of resources for location scouts and managers worldwide.

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resources for location scouts

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locationscouting links 

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locamundo.com
your first stop for locations
del.icio.us/tag/locationscout
del.icio.us/tag/locationscout
locationscout on ma.gnolia
locationscout on ma.gnolia
zimbio location scouting
zimbio location scouting
locationscout linkit
locationscout linkit
ALSAM
Association of Location Scouts and Managers
ALSAM Squidoo
ALSAM Squidoo
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R. Richard Hobbs
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