Location Scouting

When I was coming up with the idea I imagined that the location would be a beach similar to Venice Beach in Los Angeles. I have been there only once and it was also a location in the movie Nightcrawler.

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I loved the liveliness and the colorful buildings. The south Florida equivalent of Venice Beach is the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk.

This setting is perfect because there are tons of people there and it is quite a scenic place to shoot. I have been here many times and I knew it would be ideal, but I still wanted to be completely sure that it was the right place. I visited Hollywood Beach and also a couple of piers in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

This is one of the piers I visited and honestly none of them are like Hollywood Beach. Because of the wood, it looks so stale and there isn't much people or a scenery. Hollywood is really colorful and is the perfect choice. 

I looked up permits for shooting in the city of Hollywood and the process is quite daunting. They require insurance plans and a lot of paperwork. We might run into issues over permission to shoot at the boardwalk, but I'm willing to just risk it. Usually security or the cops have no problem at all with you being there as long as it doesn't look too "professional." If it is just me, layla, and two actors with a tripod and DSLR, it shouldn't be a problem.