Rainbow of Kiss

In my early twenties, I had an amazing opportunity to work in a film school, located in a working movie studio that produces roughly 6 films a year, and it was very exciting, enjoyable and magical for me. I was overwhelmed when I first step inside a real NC24 sound stage with production sets strewn around, green screens here and there, production assistants scurrying to find actors or collecting and handing out props, and actors walking around. Allowing me a glimpse of life inside a production outfit, I didn’t go to a film school or majored in mass communications back in college so it was a unique experienced for me. It was amazing, you are surrounded by creative people, living and breathing films, free-flow of ideas are happening constantly, making it a brain-stimulating place to be. My boss was an industry veteran and he shared with his team his vast knowledge and experiences with us and my team came from a production background. I discovered that shooting and doing production in Hollywood are pretty expensive, thus most production, even studio-backed and big-budgeted movies, shoot on location in certain cities where they can save on production cost. Vancouver, Toronto, Prague are some of the most popular cities that offer location shooting when constructing large sets are not feasible plus these cities provide non-union labor force unlike Hollywood; both reasons help bring production cost down. I remember my boss shared a story one time about going to Texas and hiring an austin video production outfit for a tv commercial he was working on while he was the head of a studio company.   If the shoot was done in California or in New York, ashe further explained, it would have cost him an arm and a leg for the same production value that the austin video production team did.