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The chief difficulties with location filming are inevitably those of logistics – the parking of vehicles, the feeding and accommodation of the cast the negotiation of facility fees for the use of each location, etc., etc. These are therefore the proper concerns of the producer and the production manager, and i deal with them in my book The Practical Director. However, while, budget permitting, the director can feel gloriously cocooned against the organizational nightmares that frequently beset location work, he will inevitably have his artistic concept adulterated if he decides on a completely impractical location. More artistic compromise will be forced on the director at a bad location than at a good one, so ...

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