Am I the only one who tries to figure out where commercials are filmed ?

[steve2470]

Sometimes it's absolutely impossible, because the scenery is so "generic" or another downtown scene with bland buildings. When I see a long-range shot of a skyline I pay more attention Same thing with distinctive rural scenes of mountains, oceans, etc.

[OneBlueDotBama]

1. Montreal & Old Montreal

Especially auto commercials...

[unblock]

2. mrs. unblock does this all the time, and goes bananas when she spots austin, texas

movies, too.

[R B Garr]

3. We do! Love it. Being that a lot of filming is done in Los Angeles or the

greater L.A. metro area, we recognize a lot of locations, particularly from car commercials.

--Downtown Los Angeles bridges are huge for car commercials. Also seen in a lot movie scenes.
--Lots of shots near Malibu and up Highway 101 and Pacific Coast Highway are easily recognizable, especially the Morro Bay rock/Pismo Beach area. There was a fairly recent ice cream bar commercial where a young woman got out in traffic and walked where we could spot the Highway 101 location. The Getty, lots of commercials at USC are recognizable with the brick buildings, the L.A. Coliseum is obviously recognizable,
--Lots of filming done in Pasadena
--We were at the remodeled Clifton restaurant downtown L.A. last year and they were filming a commercial right up the street from there, I think it was at an old theater.

We've recognized lots of places in San Francisco, too, which is very distinctive. Yes, it's a fun thing to do. This is partly why I watch the reality or cooking shows is to see where they go. For instance, Giada filmed a show on Korean BBQ, and went to a downtown L.A. restaurant called Soot Bull Jeep, which the name was only partially visible, but then I Googled it and found it. I also watch the Real Housewives of Orange County and look up their locations all the time. Same with the Kardashian show. It's a great way to scout new restaurants, etc.

[hunter]

4. I don't see many commercials, my TV is a movie player, that's all it does...

... but I love seeing diverse movie and television series locations, and it amuses me when they go horribly wrong.

My all time favorite was the television series "Psych," set in Santa Barbara, California, and filmed in White Rock, British Columbia. I've spent considerable time in Santa Barbara and visited British Columbia, and the places really couldn't be any more different.

Santa Barbara county is very dry outside the cold winter rainy season. South of Point Conception is the northernmost place in California where you can swim or surf in the ocean more-or-less comfortably without a wetsuit, depending upon your metabolism. Most days, any season, the streets are dry. Coastal British Columbia is not like that at all.

Toronto standing in for New York city is a common one too, as is the Oxnard Plain, California, standing in for the U.S. Midwest. Or the Santa-Susana/Fillmore area where Little House on the Prairie was filmed. (My brother was an occasional character in the background on that. He also played a few biker-types on TV, which wasn't much of a stretch for him, because he is a biker type. Me, I flunked out of television by kindergarten because I used to stare at important people as if they were interesting insects. I was actually quite fond of studying insects and I still am.)