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Ideas to support locat artists
Due to work schedule I will not be able to attend the meeting but I wanted to forward an idea or thought.
It would be nice to be able to shoot in state parks fee free and or without a permit. I can understand if you have tons and tons of camera equipment and crew, but if I just have a video camera and a few actors it would be nice not to get arrested for it.
Or if that can't go through then perhaps set up some kind of rate:
Couple cameras and small group = 50 - 100 bucks
Cameras including Jibs and lighting = more.
You get the idea. There are a lot of beautiful locations that should be used in our films that cant because we have to dump thousands of dollars of production funds to cover a year of insurance, let alone paying to use the area. Filmmaking is hard enough with out these odd but major road blocks.