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What should a location scout and a tech scout record at a site (access, power, sound, light and time of day, permits, safety, neighbours, holding areas), and which items are documented rather than synthesised?

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No single public form was found that covers all eight topics. A checklist can be assembled from five documents: the California Film Commission owner-facing guide (access, power, parking, restrooms, neighbours, notification, holding areas in its monitor checklist), a practitioner tech-scout checklist (sun path, basecamp, holding, power, sound, hospital, phone reception), ScreenSkills job descriptions (permits, residents, parking suspensions, health and safety files, movement orders), a Disney pre-scout safety checklist (hazards before a Director's Scout) and a trade article (conflicting needs of camera and sound). The table below marks each item documented (source) or synthesised (no source says it). Curator qualifications: The checklist is correctly presented as assembled from five documents, with no single public form. Spot-verified the CFC items. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://ozozmen.com/blog/old/location-tech-scout-checklist/",
      "note": "parking; street holds"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cdn.film.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Your-Property-In-A-Starring-Role-1.pdf",
      "note": "parking; street holds"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.screenskills.com/media/7597/final-jd-location-manager-030523.pdf",
      "note": "parking; street holds"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://sites.disney.com/app/uploads/sites/53/2023/11/Location-Scout-Inspection.pdf",
      "note": "parking; street holds"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://locationmanagers.org/sense-of-place/",
      "note": "parking; street holds"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://20questionsfilm.com/the-storyteller-series-tech-scouting/",
      "note": "parking; street holds"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[inference] No single public form was found that covers all eight topics. A checklist can be assembled from five documents: the California Film Commission owner-facing guide (access, power, parking, restrooms, neighbours, notification, holding areas in its monitor checklist), a practitioner tech-scout checklist (sun path, basecamp, holding, power, sound, hospital, phone reception), ScreenSkills job descriptions (permits, residents, parking suspensions, health and safety files, movement orders), a Disney pre-scout safety checklist (hazards before a Director's Scout) and a trade article (conflicting needs of camera and sound). The table below marks each item documented (source) or synthesised (no source says it). · locator: parking; street holds source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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