Every director I know has walked into a space, loved it, and booked it. I have done it twice. Both times the room was right and the day was wrong.

A scout is a rehearsal for the problems. Where the sun comes from at the hour you are shooting, not the hour you visited. Where eleven people put their bags. What is happening on the other side of that wall at eight in the morning, because there is always something on the other side of that wall.

The photographs I keep from a scout are almost never the flattering ones. They are the corner where the cable run has to go, the window that will blow out by ten, the door that does not close quietly. Those are the pictures that save a day.

Take the pretty ones as well. They are for the poster.