Location Managers Guild International

Fall 2018

The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) is the largest organization of Location Managers and Location Scouts in the motion picture, television, commercial and print production industries. Their membership plays a vital role in the creativ

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LMGI COMPASS | Fall 2018 • 49 All photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Nearly every interpretation of the comic series presented Gotham as a city on the verge of collapse. Its principle visual motif can be summed up in a single word: dark. With the fictional city having al- ready been so richly explored on screen, one of the most important tasks for the new show's crew, starting with its Location Depart- ment, was finding ways to enhance the audience's perception of Go- tham City. This conceptualization began with the late Doug Kraner, production designer on the pilot and eight additional episodes in Season 1. Kraner joked that the crew's mission was "generally run- ning from bright, beautiful, sunny days." Kraner and his team researched hundreds of comics, films and books. Pilot director Danny Cannon and Kraner created a mood board with hundreds of images, from which a new Gotham began to emerge—one that simultaneously paid homage to those that came before, while revealing new dark, ominous locations to be explored. New York was chosen as the series' base, and the search was on to find a location team who knew the city well; people who could find a meaner, grittier version of New York. "Gotham is kind of like New York was in the late '70s and early '80s, when the city was at its roughest in recent history. Before the subways were cleaned up, when crime was high, the city felt brutal. We see Gotham as existing in that world. But New York City has changed since then. It is really a much more optimistic and brighter place. And we don't want that! So we look for the old New York as we scout, and sometimes we have to remove the new New York," said Kraner in a 2014 Comic-Con interview. The scale and ambition of the series was off the charts from the The 12th Avenue Viaduct, Manhattan Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank Alder Manor, Yonkers

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