Just Shoot Me: Complaints About Filming
There have been rumblings on neighborhood blogs over the past couple of weeks about people being fed up with film crews tying up the streets: Pardon Me for Asking quoted one resident who said that lately in Carroll Gardens “it has felt like we have had a film shoot on a weekly or monthly basis,”…
There have been rumblings on neighborhood blogs over the past couple of weeks about people being fed up with film crews tying up the streets: Pardon Me for Asking quoted one resident who said that lately in Carroll Gardens “it has felt like we have had a film shoot on a weekly or monthly basis,” while Brooklyn Heights Blog ran complaints from people who said they’d been inconvenienced by a last-minute shoot on Columbia Heights. Today the Brooklyn Eagle gets in on the action, noting that some production companies and types of shoots are apparently more respectful of the neighborhoods they film in than others. Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Neighborhood Association, says “makers of commercials are much less considerate” than big production companies, and there’s an example of a film shoot on Court Street and Atlantic Avenue yesterday that left a lot of litter in its wake. Have any readers found the shoots to be more of an inconvenience lately?
Brooklyn: The Other Hollywood [Eagle]
Enough With Filming! [PMFA]
Last Minute Columbia Heights Film Shoot Upsets Residents [BHB]
I really do think that the biggest problem is that some of the same small areas get used over and over. I know that Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens are cute and charming and also are easy to shoot “period” because they superficially have not changed that much (I’m talking architecture, not residents wise). So you have some blocks where, in nice weather, the shoots are constant. I support the industry because I do know how many people have jobs that depend on it and the city makes money from it. But in certain in-demand areas you can have crews either shooting or prepping for shoots constantly. Perhaps there should be a limit to how many weeks out of the year the same block can be used…but I doubt that will happen. PS: I don’t have a car so I am not as inconvenienced as some.