Location Scouting as a Film Story
Two Versions of The Same Memory
Location plays a vital role in shaping a film’s tone and emotional direction. These stills explore how environment, light, and genre work together to suggest story and atmosphere.
Series Images
The Concept of The Film Series
These are pieces that feel like they belong to a memory you haven’t yet lived. Nova Scotia was one of them. The soft light, open coastlines, and stillness that feels too perfect, like a story you would choose to remember. The series, inspired by We Were Liars, explores the fracture between what is seen and what is felt. Because not every memory tells the truth. One version is warm and safe. The other, Shadows deepened, Colours fall quiet, and the space becomes something unfamiliar and unresolved.
This is not about before and after; it is about simultaneity. Two emotional realities exist at once.
A place that holds joy and something just beneath it. Unspoken.
This study explores how cinematography and colour can reshape perception and transform locations along the East Coast into two entirely different stories.
Every location has two stories. Let’s find yours.
Whether you’re scouting for a film, building a visual narrative, or looking for cinematic location photography that goes beyond the surface, SommerIcon approaches every environment as a story waiting to be told.