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Identifying your scenes

Identifying your scenes

From the course: Location Scouting for Video and Photo Projects

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Identifying your scenes

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- Your first step after having a locked concept or script is to define what you're going to need to help your scene or story. Start by breaking your script down into scenes. Once you do that, add up the number of scenes you're going to need. As you look through them, are there any that can be grouped together so that you can make it all in one location? That's going to save you money in production. Are there any that are interior, or exterior, or both? By doing this, we are defining that creative what that we were talking about earlier. We need to know what needs to be captured, and we also need to know what's going to be shown. So take this location, for example. I needed to do a government video about safety on construction sites. So instead of trying to build my own scenes, I went and I found a location that fit the theme of my script. One of the topics was I needed a messy office. So instead of creating one and…

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