Gerrit might have some input on this topic. I think he had a few commercials shot at his previous home.
I'm hoping each time they use the house for a weekend or week it at least pays for a vacation? Gerrit?
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If you are looking for adult films....talk to BigRed, I heard he has a stripper pole in his bedroom!!
I think BigRed is getting confused with the pole that he uses to hang dry is underwear and wife beater undershirts. ROFLMAO
the question is, do they flush the toilet once a day in woodbrige to save some money on the water bill??????????
I PM'd this to Jason before I realized there was a full thread on the topic. The filming occured always on weekdays. Typcial commercial is .5 to 1 day prep (remove furniture, bring in their own, paint, set dressing), 1 day filming, generator truck (big one) shows up at 0630, rest follow that, leave anytime between 1900 and 2300 that night, day 3 is cleanup of your house, repaint back to original if you don't like new colour of your walls. You won't get rich but it is nice spending money. Plus you get good food all day and a free education in project management if you hang around. Fees vary by company, commercial and what they use of your house. For the KFC commercial there were >75 people in and around our house. Hi Jason We used Absolute Locations as our 'finder'. It was mostly commercials with one documentary (Final 24 Hours of John Belushi's Life) http://www.absolute.to/main_locserv.html is URL. It is not free to get onto their catalogue but if you have an interesting place that is large enough then 6-8 calls per year is not unusual for commercials. You can do 2 per year, after that you need permission from most of your neighbours (location scout looks after that). You can see what you are in for at http://visser-scully.ca/tools/copper....php?cat=10004, this has pictures of some of the commercials done at our previous house. The Tele2 commercial video is here: http://commercial.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/tele2-bear/ (only shown in Europe) Good luck, it is fun and rewarding. They look after your place and contents very well. Gerrit
Thank you all for your help this forum is great. I will keep you posted if anyone finds my home worthy. I do need paint so hopefully this works out. Maybe I can have the staging company leave all the furniture too
It won't be free but it can be very cost effective. One commercial they brought in a Nelson Bench. It looked great, my wife joked about leaving it behind. In the end we paid <20% of new. Basically if you don't ask, you won't know the answer. The store took off $ for used, $ for rental, and then a deduction since they didn't have to drop it off Gerrit
We have a very unique Victorian/Craftsman house on a corner with a nice wrap around porch. We always get tv/film scouts coming to our door to ask about filming even though we aren't registered. Masters of Horror wanted to film around our house and a gory death scene in our bedroom, ehhh I don't think so. About fifteen years ago I did some film work and I would never trust these crews in my house. Outside ok. Also, a friend let a movie use his classic car and the star jumped up and slid across the hood.
