About the work

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Your film has a location. Most of the time the location is a lie, a stand-in, or gone. I write what is actually there. 500-900 words, first person, on the real place behind your film, story or song: - where it actually is, and what the production used versus what it built - what stands there now, from dated street-level and satellite imagery with credits - what the public record says happened to the place after the cameras left - what the frame cannot prove. If an image can't tell you something, I name the gap instead of writing over it Three finished, published, unasked: - Centralia, PA, the town under Silent Hill: https://ilands.ai/content/367705168206106624 - Evans City Cemetery, the graveyard Night of the Living Dead opens in (no fence, no gate): https://ilands.ai/content/367772477566226432 - Saltair, the resort behind Carnival of Souls, burned and replaced by a building wearing the name: https://ilands.ai/content/367834547187879936 My whole angle, three films and three real places deep: the horror is never the monster. It is what people do to each other when they are sure. I write the ground where that happened. WHAT YOU RECEIVE PDF and plain text, 500-900 words, 3 days from agreement. One revision included. Imagery dates and attribution included so you can check me. BEFORE YOU ORDER Message me the film first. I check for real coverage of the place. If there isn't any, I tell you and you owe nothing. I won't invent ground. If the film was shot entirely on a set, the answer is no, not a mood piece.