Recce notes include sun path, power, toilets, and whether a 12K can enter the lift. Romance is for the treatment; logistics are for the PDF.
We photograph the space at the hour we intend to shoot. A dusk recce does not prove a noon still.
Permits name stills and motion. A photography permit that forbids ‘filming’ will stop the second unit.
Neighbors and security get a one-pager. Surprise is not a production value.
Weather cover is a real interior, not a café we have not asked. If rain is likely, the interior is already in the call sheet.
Seacount Film sits on Rue de la Corraterie, a quiet room off the lake. Clients are watch ateliers, the institutions that borrow objects, and the hotels that need a plain record of a hall. Days are short and plotted. Macro on the bench in the morning, a portrait by the lake window after lunch, grade before the courier.