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One interesting thing, and I’ve mentioned this before on the podcast, trying to rent a location for a film shoot in Los Angeles is just ripe with issues. I found a bar in the middle of the San Fernando Valley, which would have been good. Frankly, I don’t think it would have been as good as the bar that I eventually found. So sometimes the necessity is the mother to push you to that next step, but it’s a great location. And they were willing to work with us on our price. So, they didn’t try and bicker over the rate that I could afford, but they didn’t want to commit until September. And I sort of took that to mean that they were hoping that they could rent the place out for more money. And so they didn’t want to commit to me since I wasn’t going to be paying them a ton. You know, as a producer, that definitely worried me. So, it just, I kept looking and kept trying to find someplace else, which I eventually did. But I guess the bottom line is it seems like getting out of LA, even by 30 minutes, makes dealing with these location owners much easier. So I’m going to try and use the same strategy for some of my other locations too. We’ll see how that goes. The next location I need is really only for like a half day. It’s just one little scene in a department store where they go on a date and they’re buying some new clothes and they do a little, there’s a little interaction near the changing room. So I’ve got to find that location and that is going to be difficult just because most department stores obviously are big box retailers. They’re not going to want to rent to me for the little bit of money that I have. And I’ve looked at, started to look at some sort of smaller boutique clothing shops and they don’t quite fit the script. So, I’ve got to figure that part out. I’m still looking, as I said, if I can find a good location, I will definitely do that. But I’m thinking I might have to just entirely rewrite the scene. I mean, I know what has to happen in the scene. And interestingly too, now that I’m looking for locations, I sort of have an idea of what locations are easier to find. So just as an example, I noticed when I was looking for bars, there’s a lot of places that, salons, barbershops, that kind of thing. So, I was thinking maybe I could easily change this scene and rent in a salon or a barbershop. So that’s one idea.
