Producing films forces you to make decisions everyday during production with the ultimate goal of making the best film possible. The reason I added the word "possible" is because you are limited by your film budget. One element of filmmaking that filmmakers have little control over is the weather. I once produced a movie in Vancouver where the story was set in Los Angeles. We had made the decision to shoot in Vancouver for financial and creative reasons. During our first location scout it rained all week. As most people know, Los Angeles has a reputation for rarely having rain. But the director and I looked at each other and thought "free special effects". By this, we meant that studio films often have to designate large fees in their movie budgets to special effects companies and visual special effect companies in post to add rain to the film. In Vancouver, we would get it for free! We thought of all the great cop thrillers that had so much rain throughout the story that it became a theme: "Seven", "Road to Pardition", etc.
As luck would have it, it never rained a single shooting day in Vancouver (only on non-shooting days)!
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