Well, I left for New Mexico, to pursue more work. Below are a lot of pictures I took while I worked as a Location Scout in Chicago, and the surrounding area. I worked on nearly 100 commercials. I hated working on them. Anyway, I'll add more as I find them.
BTW, I loved Chicago, and I will miss it dearly. I arrived in the year 2000, and I left in 2015. So, I spent a good 15 years in that wonderful city.
Below are pictures from the Midwest (and mostly Chicago).
Sprint - Built for Chicago (Paul Octavious Instagram photographer)
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The images below were for a job with Exxon Mobil. I said no 3 times to this job, before accepting. Let me straight up say, Exxon paid a lot of money to film in some locations, only to cut the shots from the project entirely. The excuse we often heard (in regards to money) was, "it's only a barrel of oil."
Anyway, the locations we filmed at were all over the place: O'Hare, the Loop, a hydroponic farm, Grant Park, an El Station, Lasalle, etc. They took aerial footage of a Jay-Z concert, and then added close-ups they filmed at HARPO. The hospital is Rush.
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HARPO
This is the command center for the CTA. The gentleman on the left directed the Katy Perry Roar video:
This job got me some bulls tickets:
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This one didn't:
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CSX commercial:
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The pictures I took scouting for it:
Lionsgate came by to do a few scenes for Insurgent. This is the helicopter tour we did to find locations. They literally pointed at buildings they wanted me to scout.
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