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Have you ever wondered how “The Bachelor” moves into the mansion each season, or if the home your favorite movie is set-in is just a set? These magnificent houses are often not sets, but are private homes the production company rents from the homeowner for filming.
As you can imagine, there are a lot of moving pieces to transform someone’s home into a movie set. Detail management is key. It takes a specialized synchronization of activities. First, the homeowner’s belongings are packed up and moved out. Then, the location managers take over, setting up the home for the movie; music video; or reality or scripted TV show. After the director calls it’s a wrap, the set furniture and props are wrapped up, protected and moved out. The homeowner’s belongings are moved back in, unpacking and setting up their furniture and knick-knacks exactly how they were before the movie magic occurred.
So, how does this massive moving production of transforming a home into a set and then back into a home take action? Think James Bond like movers: fast, stealth, precise and in the final scene leave no trace they were ever there. To accomplish a production move without a teacup out of place, Hollywood moving companies need to create a system such as Photo Perfect Packing, a photo logging process to arrange clients’ items in an exact prescribed layout. Down to recreating the exact layout of the homeowners’ sock drawer and medicine cabinet, the homeowner would never know a full-scale production took place in their beautiful home. This system has worked for decades and in today’s digital world, the process is even simpler.