Locations, scouting & permits · Working
Location
ELI5
A real place used or proposed as a filming environment.
Used in conversation
“The location needs to support the world rather than feel added for decoration.”
Pitch context
You may encounter “Location” 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
- Practical locationComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 3
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- ScreenSkills — Online Learning Glossary and Job ProfilesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Association of Independent Commercial Producers — AICP Guidelines and Best PracticesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- pitch.dog — Pitch Dictionary Deep Research SynthesisSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-14