Always insist they pay for TWO staff members to be present at all times with full veto power on everything happening. Make sure those staff members are fully trained and willing to say no to almost all requests and that they will not wander off. Filming is long and boring, typically 14-16 hours days, everyone should be prepared.

They will not be careful with your things, they always promise, they are never able to control all their people. never. ever. remove everything before hand, make them rent their set decoration.

Film crews have 10 times more people than you think, they have very tall cranes and microphones swinging around, they use a ton of electricity, they need complete silence, and they will have food and drinks in every corner and on every surface. They will sit and lean on everything. They will do it while rollin so that you will not have a chance to stop them.

If it can go wrong, it will.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Julie Blood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I remember this being covered in previous posts, but I am interested to see if anyone would be willing to share their policies regarding filming on site for movies and television. I was recently contacted by someone who wants to use one of our historic structures to film part of a low budget movie and I want to be sure to have all my bases covered. Unfortunately, we don't have anything written in our policies to handle situations like this. Staff is very hesitant to allow this to happen (especially me) based on previous posts I’ve read on the listserve. If anybody would be willing to share with me off list, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Julie

Julie Blood

Collections and Exhibit Manager

San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum

P.O. Box 30, Lodi , CA 95241

(209) 331-2055

(209) 953-3460

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