Location Scouting and Management Handbook: Television, Film and Still Photography

by Robert G. Maier

Discover what makes an excellent location, how to manage the location and how to handle any problems that might come up. This book provides an in-depth, practical look at location scouting and management. Written with many years of scouting experience in mind, the author has imparted much professional 'savvy' that beginning or experienced scouts or location managers will find invaluable to finding and keeping their next scouting assignment.
Handles both the jobs of the location scout and the location manager
Step-by-step approach gives a realistic view of the process of location scouting and management

175 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

Biography of Robert G. Maier

Author of Low Budget Hell:
Making Underground Movies with John Waters


Robert G. Maier is an award-winning multi-media producer/writer/director with a wide range of documentary, corporate and instructional TV experience. His broadcast credits include the one-hour documentary, Trappist, which appeared on PBS, ABC and NBC networks, and a six-hour series for PBS, Seapower: A Global Journey. His half-hour documentary Nativity is aired regularly as a Christmas special on PBS and the Trinity Broadcasting Networks.

In non-broadcast production, Maier was the co-writer/producer of a 15-hour award-winning teacher development series Creating the Learning Centered School, and 8 hours of productions for the Skylink Family and School Network. He has produced dozens of award- winning instructional videos, TV spots, marketing films and two PBS how-to series The Spirit of Cross Stitch and Homestretch.

Mr. Maier has numerous feature film credits. For New Line Cinema in New York, he was line producer of the award-winning Alone In The Dark, and the original Hairspray. Other New York independent feature credits include House on Sorority Row, Fastlane, The Fox Affair, and Downtown 81. He was also line producer of four feature-length world music documentaries for BMG Films by noted documentarian, Robert Mugge.

Mr. Maier’s first film was Love Letter to Edie (1975), the acclaimed short biography of Edith Massey. It has played around the world for thirty years, been excerpted for programs on Channel 4 (UK), the Discovery Channel, The Criterion Video Collection, and New Line Cinema’s John Waters boxed set. A re-mastered DVD version of his “expanded director’s cut” is in release.

Robert is the author of two textbooks: Handbook of Location Scouting and Management (Focal Press) and Guide to Essential Audio and Video Production (Full Page Publishing).

He has taught graduate-level production courses at The American University’s Summer Film and Video Institute and presented production workshops at the University of Maryland, Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University, Ball State University, Gardner-Webb University, Towson State University, and Davidson College.

Mr. Maier earned a BA (Literature) from The American University and an MA in English (Professional Communications) from East Carolina University. He is an instructor of audio and video production and program coordinator in the Broadcasting Production program at Gaston College.

An interest in Afghanistan led Mr. Maier to travel to Kabul in 2004 to consult in the formation of an educational TV network there. He became involved with a group of Afghan refugee journalists and assisted with the formation of the http://www.kabulpress.org media site English language section. He has been the English Pages editor for several years.

Mr. Maier currently lives in the college town of Davidson, North Carolina with his wife. His two grown sons live and work nearby.

Reviews

[Robert Maier · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my first book, written in 1994, now out of print and terribly out of date due to changes in technology. I'd like to update it, if I had time. The original edition is a collector's item and selling for $150. It sold about 5,000 copies.