Behind The Scenes Photography for Puras Ilusiones Feature Film

I recently had the opportunity to join director Caitlin Diaz on set of her first feature film, PURAS ILUSIONES. The feature film project is filming all around the Rio Grande Valley including Brownsville, Harlingen and Pharr, Texas. The project is using an Arri SR3 camera and kodak film. I'm shooting the behind the scenes stills and my photo was recently included in Kodak's facebook posts. Glad they noticed our work.

Feature film in RGV - pre production - location scouting

As we continue with pre production for the project and I keep seeing & walking  more and more locations I continue to be reaffirmed that we have a excellent array of locations to choose from (we as all filmmakers) in the Rio grande valley.
One location we are pretty excited about is a college that has some beautiful buildings
Today we were able to walk quite a few of the locations we weeenconsidefong for our story

When location scouting factors to always keep an we for;
Times of low traffic vs high traffic (pedestrians and cars)
Nearby trains/ airports/ ambulances/ fire departments
Know the logistics of parking especially if it's a big company and or calling for a lot of extras
Electrical considerations
a/c eléctrica Hunms considerations
Craft devices set up
Holding room, talent holding room, hair and make up/ room, mobile production office room availability
And if exteriors -  sunlight direction at x time of day



If ever in the Rio grande valley area (cities of Brownsville harlingen mcallen Edinburg mission) I'd be happy to lend a hand to find the right look for the sake of the story.

For the love of the craft,
 laura