[David Stickney]

Maybe,.. I could easily fake California scenes here, except less smog, less illegal immigrants but with graphic Artists for $300 a month we can get that all fixed up in post.

India would be a bit harder to fake, maybe toss a bunch of brown food coloring on flour and thrown it in the water, we got cows…

https://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=Crimea+nature&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

🙂

[David Stickney]

Hi,

here is the carnet Mark mentioned

https://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article785

I’ve traveled in and out of Europe for 15 years. I know you can enter with one camera per person without a declaration. I would be more concerned if everything was new in the box, even then you can always say you are a salesperson and can bring in one of everything in your product line new in a box. The limits they put of values of stuff, is normally things you can bring in new without declaring.

To tell the truth, I don’t travel with cash, cigarettes or booze and never declare anything, always the green line. When asked, what I have the answer is my personal items and stuff for my work – NOT FOR SALE – never had any issue. I’ve seen large crews with lots of equipment go through the same green line as me.

found this, Italy is the same as france

https://www.filminginitaly.com/production_04.aspx

The carnet is mostly for people bringing in stuff they would normally have to pay customs for, like 5 new unregistered cars for an autoshow.

Once you are inside Europe the borders are fairly transparent.

Have a nice trip!

[David Stickney]

Hi Again,

You bet, I know a lot of people on this forum have tons more experience than me and really there is enough info in the forum already that most things have been discussed.

I’m not in Hollywood and my costs are a _lot_ lower than elsewhere.

While my location is fairly remote, it’s been a long time favorite location due to all the various elements that can be found nearby.

I’ve been bring people onboard and I am pretty sure at the rate we’re going we’ll have a good bit of work to show for ourselves. In the future, I’d like to invite production companies to come to use our studios and I’m pretty sure I’ll have a nice arrangement and very reasonable expenses. We’ll pay for everything, even though we are pretty small now we have done the due dillegence and are ready 🙂

Thanks
David

[David Stickney]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve never seen the material they use for the LED, I am assuming that it’s a pretty standard retro reflector embedded in clothe, but from the sounds of it, that’s not the case.

As for LEDs, a couple of years ago we wanted to make an USB driven LED dance floor, using multivoltage (multicolor) leds by the time we did the math on making the panels and buying the diodes and controllers, it worked out cheaper to simply use cheap lcd displays without housings.

Actually I’ve got some large displays and tried to get a key from them just for kicks, worked fine.

As for the justification of such a set up – I guess it’s early in the game to say a lot, some of the factors:

This will be the only such sound stage in 600 KM

We’re organizing a group for non commercial projects so a community resource is a motivating factor.

In the first week since getting approval on the takeover and conversion of the hanger, I’ve already gotten a deal to shoot a 30 episode series of a italian cooking show for an italian kitchen manufacturer and some good leads from Moscow based producers that come here to shoot anyway.

I’d love to have anyone who is planning to visit the area to come and visit, I am sure when you see the wide variety of locations withing 50 km of our studio you’ll see why we think there is a justification for this stage.

kind regards, David

[David Stickney]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply. You experience confirmed what I was expecting – namely a retro reflector or dual purpose surface would be an issue.

I probably will try to make some type of reflector screen and test it out, just to try it, who knows, maybe by playing around I stuble upon something interesting.

On another note, I’ve been reading the forum here for a couple of years and would like to say thanks for all the other stuff you answer as well. You’re the kind of guy that makes the internet such a resource. I’ve read piles of your posts and they are alway solid. thanks for all the stuff you’ve contributed.