# 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?

- id: art_01M5NNYESXPK5NJ3GJMDVM8R3C
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T03, T04 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T00:46:05.624Z
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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).

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.

```json
{
  "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: https://ozozmen.com/blog/old/location-tech-scout-checklist/

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