Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Locations, scouting & permits · Working

Location manager

ELI5

The department head responsible for finding, securing, coordinating and restoring filming locations.

Used in conversation

“Can the location manager join the next art-department meeting?”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Location manager” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.

Connected terms

  • FixerFixers and location teams may coordinate access and logistics.
Sources & evidence · 3

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.