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location

location

175 2.9
A place outside a studio where a movie or TV crew films scenes
  • noun
  • /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
  • Jargon
translation icon : lugar de rodaje
  • The crew spent weeks searching for the perfect location to film the epic battle scene.
  • film on location
  • remote location
  • select shooting locations

We had to spend two weeks on location lanning every shot.

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Examples

  • And even worse, they filmed on location on some of the hottest days of the New York summer.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • - Yeah, so we have three film locations planned.

  • Then when did you actually go to the location and start shooting?

  • And that would be finding a location to film.

  • Why do you think this location was used?

  • We have to look for locations, hire a film crew and I was thinking...

  • We are actually on location at one of our new seed farmers.

  • It's shot on green screen, which is faster, cheaper, and easier to work with than location shooting.

    Academic text (2017)
  • This is the trouble with shooting on location... ...although it's worth it for the authenticity.

  • Abel Gance's Napoléon last year showed what a camera can do on location, filming in real houses, real landscapes.

Antonyms

791 3.2

A room where movies, TV shows, or radio programs are made and recorded

Compounds

A very good place in a town where people want to live or work

A move of something from one place to another

Surface Forms

location singular
locations plural

Morphology

location = locate (semi-transparent) = locate + ion

While the derivation from 'locate' is clear, the specific film industry meaning is specialized and not immediately obvious.

Etymology

Location comes from the Latin locus ('place') and locare ('to place'). That's why 'shooting on location' means filming at the real 'place' outside a studio.