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I watch too much tv, can spot production locations

Flint

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Over the years ice truly enjoyed some fine tv series. Of late, many are filmed in Canada, which is clearly a great place to produce TV shows. However, I've discovered I can typically identify the location of production, especially in Canada, based on landscapes, local flora, city streets, and how something like smoke or steam rises into the air.

It is also starting to get easy to spot for shows produces in the Atlanta area.

While this doesn't ruin a good show, for average or "okay" shows I somertimes find myself speculating on the exact location, which can be distracting.

You guys experience similar?
 
Every once in awhile, I'll notice that I've seen the house that the porno is being shot at before.
 
Huey said:
Every once in awhile, I'll notice that I've seen the house that the porno is being shot at before.
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After so many visits from a plumber, you'd think the house would move from adult TV to the DIY network. Somebody's gotta get a handle on those sewer lines eventually.
 
I often think the talent of the colorist working on the shows determine how easy it is to spot the location. Light is different in Prague than it is in Atlanta. But also, there can be a thickness look in the air where distant objects are more faded when the humidity and temperature are higher, or the opposite when it is colder and less humid. But the biggest giveaways are sometimes just mistakes. I was watching an episode of Taken (TV Series) and while the scene was supposed be on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, near the border crossing to Finland, I saw a brand new Honda minivan drive by in the background followed by a Roger's telco truck. That clearly gave away the fact they were filming in Canada, but I knew that already. It just brought the point home that really this is just a bunch of people playing pretend.
 
Akula said:
After so many visits from a plumber, you'd think the house would move from adult TV to the DIY network. Somebody's gotta get a handle on those sewer lines eventually.
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Or at least show up on Naked and Afraid.
 
And how many pizzas does a family need? Geez, ever hear of a balanced diet?




And no, THAT isn't a balanced diet.
 
Flint said:
Over the years ice truly enjoyed some fine tv series. Of late, many are filmed in Canada, which is clearly a great place to produce TV shows. However, I've discovered I can typically identify the location of production, especially in Canada, based on landscapes, local flora, city streets, and how something like smoke or steam rises into the air.

It is also starting to get easy to spot for shows produces in the Atlanta area.

While this doesn't ruin a good show, for average or "okay" shows I somertimes find myself speculating on the exact location, which can be distracting.

You guys experience similar?
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Ok, I just have to ask. How can you tell based on how smoke or steam rises into the air, that it is shot in Canada?
 
mcad64 said:
Ok, I just have to ask. How can you tell based on how smoke or steam rises into the air, that it is shot in Canada?
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When the vapors from steam or smoke do that slow wafty thing in which they appear to be dense just above the source and dissipate not much above it so it doesn't stretch up into the sky, that seems to be what you see in colder weather and climates you see in the northern regions. In places like Georgia the vapors tend to gather low and spread around and remain dense for longer, but not reach high into the sky. In places like NM and California the vapors tend to rise quickly and stretch up high into the air.

Of course, those are HUGE generalizations, but I am attempting to put into written words the things I notice when I am paying attention to where a show might be filmed. Combine the way smoke and steam behave with things like the color of the light, the way the wind blows, the types and densities of trees and shrubs, and other definable scenery aspects, and one can be pretty close on where a show is filmed. This is made easier with regular broadcast series shows which need to produce 23 hour long episodes each year and they don't have the time to find the absolute perfect locations for the scenes, or to pay for the best colorists in the world to transform the color palette of the image. Movies tend to be harder to place.

Like in Vancouver, the roads, parks, and buildings are very unique and could easily be confused with most of the west coast of North America, but if you pay attention at all, it is clearly, uniquely, and obviously Vancouver.
 
Specifically what shows are you watching that you think, or know are filmed in Canada? You have piqued my curiosity.
 
Well, I mentioned "Taken," but "The Flash" appears to be filmed in Vancouver, to me at least. I know "Vikings" is filmed in Canada, but they are mimicking the same latitude, so it is a good fit. There are others I cannot think of right now.

As for Atlanta, "MacGyver" is filmed there, but it supposed to be set in Los Angeles, and it is a terrible fit. "Shut Eye" is quite clearly shot in Florida, but it is supposed to be set in Southern California, and it is a terrible fit.
 
Netflix's Wynonna Earp was filmed in Canada, I believe, despite being set supposedly in the American southwest (though from what I remember they were a little vague on the exact setting). Definitely worth watching, IMHO.
 
And as for the OP, I never really notice this sort of thing, except primarily for Longmire, which as I've mentioned before was filmed largely in the area I grew up in NM (as well as other NM locations). Though I was wrong about the location of Longmire's office; I initially thought it was the Santa Fe plaza, but turns out it was the plaza (similarly arranged) in Las Vegas, NM. (Yes there is such a place.) But I find it completely incongruous to have a story set in Montana (I think) but so obviously New Mexican in territory, architecture, etc.
 
PaulyT said:
Netflix's Wynonna Earp was filmed in Canada, I believe, despite being set supposedly in the American southwest (though from what I remember they were a little vague on the exact setting). Definitely worth watching, IMHO.
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I believe it is supposed to be set near the Canadian Rockies. I guess that could be near the American Rockies but certainly not the southwest.
 
mcad64 said:
I believe it is supposed to be set near the Canadian Rockies. I guess that could be near the American Rockies but certainly not the southwest.
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Really? But the whole Wyatt Earp thing is definitely an American SW sort of tale... mostly in Arizona. But yeah, the tv series could be set elsewhere, I just don't remember the story well enough to say for sure, it was a while ago that I watched it. But I had to look up where it was filmed - Alberta (according to Google).
 
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