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[–] BananaTrifleViolin 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They may close streets but it makes sense to save money to just film the cars that are there if they're just doing a short wide shot of the street.

Seems like overkill to hire 20 cars just to fill a street for a TV show if its a single establishing shot. Although no doubt they would do that for any scene being taken from multiple angles for continuity.

[–] xploit 9 points 1 week ago

I've also seen them slap fake number plates on parked cars. E.g. when they were filming in Metro Vancouver area, for some US movie/TV show, they put California plates on all local cars that were parked on streets/driveways

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, definitely depends on how much/if they care about randoms moving about the scene.