Location Scout Job Description:

A Location Scout’s primary role is to find and secure locations that best suit various scenes of a production. It's also important that they have both a creative eye and an eye for logistics. They collaborate with the director to understand what locations will best suit the project.

Location Scout Responsibilities

• Breaking down the script to determine the kinds of locations required

• Discussing location ideas and budgets with directors and screenwriters

• Researching potential filming locations online and using public records databases

• Getting scouting and filming permissions from property owners and local authorities, including negotiating prices and filming timeframes

• Visiting potential filming locations and assessing their viability, both alone, with location team members, and with the director

• Making notes and sketches, photographing, and videoing potential filming locations to show their aesthetics and logistics.

• Arranging permits for filming on location

• Liaising with people who live near the filming location.

• Photographing locations during pre-production so crew can return sites to their original condition

• Liaising with local officials on-site logistics, including sealing off locations from traffic and getting police to direct traffic

• Assisting with set direction

• Transporting special props, cast, and crew to filming locations

• Supervising the crew restoring filming locations to their original conditionDetermining extra location costs during production, including local fees, labor, and set disassembly

Sports League Commissioner Responsibilities

• Location scouts have a tight-knit community of people that help one another out when they can.

• Location scouts spend a lot of time waiting for answers from property owners and other decision-makers.

• Location scouts find making period pieces challenging because the world has changed so much and details matter.

• Location scouts do most of their scouting close to home for budgetary reasons.