It's Always Something Around Here
Sep. 17th, 2006 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fjI am not sure if this goes for all of LA, but one thing you have to count on downtown are the shoots. No, not the shootings, it seems that although the Down and Out come here to live, they ain't the Violent. It is the movie shoots, commercials, TV. Downtown has cheap rental of real estate for these purposes, it is a way to make another buck out of decrepit real estate that once had a period of grandeur, and can be made to look like a highrise in some more glamorous location.
If the shoot is Big and Involved, you will get notices on your building, else you just encounter blocked streets as you are trying to get home. The biggest stuff seems to happen on weekends. Three weeks ago Spring street was blocked off two weekends ina row for a couple of blocks, and the street looked like a giant robot had walked through it, with crushed up pavement and burning wrecked army hummers. Not surprising since it was the shoot for Prime Directive, the working title for the Transformers movie. I think they will be adding the actual mecha in post, because all there was to see were chunks of Torn-Up Asphalt And Detrus And Wrecks made of fiberglass, trucked around in a flatbed and then put into place, and bunches of extras. I have also seen a CVS commercial being shot outside at night with a drugstore and shelves re-created on the street -- no clue what that was about -- something that was obviously a car commercial, random night shoots with huge super troppers on scaffolds shining their suns into a window.
You just get used to it. Tunrs out one of the buildings in our complex has an agent. I can't get discovered for the obvious quirky beauty megastar that I am, but our neighbouring building has an agent. I've seen a photoshoot happen on its roof from the pool on the roof of the building accross our courtyard.
If the shoot is Big and Involved, you will get notices on your building, else you just encounter blocked streets as you are trying to get home. The biggest stuff seems to happen on weekends. Three weeks ago Spring street was blocked off two weekends ina row for a couple of blocks, and the street looked like a giant robot had walked through it, with crushed up pavement and burning wrecked army hummers. Not surprising since it was the shoot for Prime Directive, the working title for the Transformers movie. I think they will be adding the actual mecha in post, because all there was to see were chunks of Torn-Up Asphalt And Detrus And Wrecks made of fiberglass, trucked around in a flatbed and then put into place, and bunches of extras. I have also seen a CVS commercial being shot outside at night with a drugstore and shelves re-created on the street -- no clue what that was about -- something that was obviously a car commercial, random night shoots with huge super troppers on scaffolds shining their suns into a window.
You just get used to it. Tunrs out one of the buildings in our complex has an agent. I can't get discovered for the obvious quirky beauty megastar that I am, but our neighbouring building has an agent. I've seen a photoshoot happen on its roof from the pool on the roof of the building accross our courtyard.
