re: #558 b_sharp

Canada has a huge natural advantage for exterior/outdoor shots. Latitude. Your “golden hour” is half the day. The bidding war is kinda stupid. First there is a ton of profit in the biz. Unlike say manufacturing. Secondarily there is a huge infrastructure and set of skilled people that have to go along. It’s not really all that portable.

In some cases that has reduced the quality of the final product. Like when NM does not have the makeup experts that SoCal has, incentivises using local (poorly experienced) employment. No disrespect to those folks, but they just don’t have the depth of skills. Lots of little things go wrong.