July 18th, 2010 | 
Author: I was watching a burial scene on TV. Most of the shots were obviously filmed in a real cemetery somewhere. However, I noticed that the actual interment was shown at close angles, where the buildings around the real cemetery were not visible.
It got me wondering if the idea of lowering a fake coffin into a grave was too distasteful and if that part of the scene might have been filmed somewhere else. There was also an aerial shot right over the grave, looking down into it, which would have required a camera on a boom, so I thought that would also be intrusive in a real graveyard.
I live in New Orleans and there are a lot of films shot down here (believe it or not.) A friend of mine stood in for Elizabeth Shue on a film recently and she had to lie down on a grave for like an hour while the camera people set up the shot, etc. She said she wasn’t creeped out til one of the sound guys made some joke and she got freaked out by all the bugs and the idea that there was a dead person six feet below her…
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They use whatever is most realistic and most cost effective. They can make anything seen on the screen look real. There are scenes in CSI Miami which I know were filmed in Long Beach, California at the marina. If you saw the movie, The Matrix, you could tell what was real or camera magic. Do put all of your trust in what the camera shows you.
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Some are, and some aren’t. They have graveyard sets at movie studios just like they have sets for many othjer types of scenes. Location shooting is expensive, so a lot of it depends on the buget of the film maker. It’s usually the image that matters, and not the details anyway.
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i dought it big time.i mean just beacuse they are rich dosnt meen they can afford everything.they have to make things cheaper so they have more money.
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I live in New Orleans and there are a lot of films shot down here (believe it or not.) A friend of mine stood in for Elizabeth Shue on a film recently and she had to lie down on a grave for like an hour while the camera people set up the shot, etc. She said she wasn’t creeped out til one of the sound guys made some joke and she got freaked out by all the bugs and the idea that there was a dead person six feet below her…
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