I see so many movies, old and new, that I think I’m seeing an actual house, or a street, or some place. Then when I see the behind the scenes footage, it’s often not a real house, or street scene. It always just seems like such a huge waste of money. Could they not have found or used a real house or street or town?
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Using real street is very expensive and also not really friendly in general (even tough the shots look more natural).Most of the time you need to edit out some distracting stuff from the shot (like grafitti or just road signs, or even some idiot in the background) thus paying extra for post production.
You are also very limited in terms of lighting. Filming in real locations needs to be very efficient because you may lose the perfect lighting in just a few minutes or you may not even have the weather despite forecast info. And if you miss it, you need to film there again or just make it in post again.
Building a side of a house inside a studio lets you light it the way you want, you dont care about sunlight at all, you dont care about something unwanted in the background. And you can build it exactly the way you want.
Basically filming in a studio is much more flexible and cost effective than in real locations. Even tough it may not seem like it
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