Looking Back at The Avengers Shoot
Appetite for Destruction
Cleveland’s exploding. The cinema scene this summer is bringing numerous movie productions to N.E. Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Film Commission has worked tirelessly to attract these projects, including Fun Size, Boot Tracks, Falling Backwards and I, Alex Cross. Of all the movies coming to town, though, there’s one that got everyone’s attention: The Avengers.
During the past several weeks, for anyone living, working, touristing or just walking in Downtown, we witnessed a fantastic exterior set on East 9th Street, between Euclid and Prospect. Faux store fronts, real billboards and turned-over cars created a blown-up New York street block.
The magic of movies happens because of hard work and The Avengers production, including crew members, extras and A-listers such as Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, is world class.
The excitement this big-budget action franchise had generated was evident by the daily crowds stopping to watch, take photos and, at least temporarily, get lost in the moment.
And, one weekday morning, Jen Poland, of Invasion Films, and I got incredibly lost by finding ourselves watching an action scene sequence set-up and shooting, complete with pyrotechnics. We watched it from street level, from inside a building, from down the alley and, eventually, from the rooftop, gaining perspective on the magnitude of the process.
Here’s what we saw.
Alex Sukhoy, a globally-networked creative and business professional with two decades of corporate management experience, is founder and manager of Creative Cadence LLC, a growth planning, career development and original content agency. Her career coaching skills have resulted in numerous success stories for her clients. Alex teaches Screenwriting at Tri-C, Business Environment at CSU and, in 2006, she was profiled in BusinessWeek.com.
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