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LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2021
"How you pick a location is critical
because it controls how
you tell your story."
—Production Designer John Goldsmith
The Verdict Is In:
PERRY MASON
IS A WINNER!
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Angels Flight & shooting with green screen/VFX. Photo courtesy of HBO.
by Nancy Mills
When Jonathan Jansen/LMGI and his location team started
prep on
Perry Mason, the eight-part HBO series that recently
won Outstanding Locations in a Period Television Series at the
7th Annual LMGI Awards, one of the fi rst things they heard was
this: Producing director Tim Van Pa en doesn't like to shoot on a
backlot or a stage.
"Tim wanted everything on location," SLM Jonathan Jansen
says. Jansen was thrilled. "It keeps you busy and guarantees
your job," he says, "but it is also daunting. How were we going to
fi nd 1930s Los Angeles?