Location location location

[darkemeralds]

Oh, this is so cool and weird!

On advice from my body, I called in sick today; therefore, I was home when the location scout from Gone, a film by Heitor Dhalia, knocked at my door.

My house, apparently, is just the sort of place they're looking for as the residence of the movie's main character--old, cute, modest, and small, with a big yard and a scary basement.

If the director likes it and they decide to use it, they'd shoot both interiors and exteriors here. The "Key Assistant Location Manager" (according to her business card) took photos inside and out, described the movie's plot in detail, said she was originally from here, and named the other Portland neighborhoods they'd searched so far in vain.

There would be payment involved, and insurance, and relocation (for me). And my little house would be in the movies! Wouldn't that be cool?

Comments

[bientot]

I'm a compulsive credit-reader, for no discernible reason - rarely learn anything from it, but once, as the credits were scrolling, I saw a name I recognized from (college I went to the first time) as Art Director - he'd been an art teacher when I knew him, so that kind of made sense - but several years later I ran into him again and asked, and he said it was just because they'd used his apartment as a setting. So you may get a flashy credit as well - neat-o jets!!

[darkemeralds]

That's a wonderful story!

I quite like the idea of having my name in the obscure credit roll at the end of an obscure indie film. Hee!