{"id":10675,"date":"2014-04-20T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:09","slug":"spains-sudden-ban-on-drones-is-a-punch-in-the-gut-for-its-film-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/spains-sudden-ban-on-drones-is-a-punch-in-the-gut-for-its-film-industry","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s sudden ban on drones is a punch in the gut for its film industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">Matthew Bennett \u2014 Quartz<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"200011\" data-thread-id=\"62418\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">Last October, Ridley Scott and more than a thousand extras and film crew arrived in Andalusia, in southern Spain, to shoot <em>Exodus<\/em>, his new epic about the life of Moses starring Christian Bale. \u201cThey spent a whole month here\u201d, Piluca Querol, the director of the Andalusia Film Commission, told Quartz: \u201cIt\u2019s the first time unemployment has gone down in Almer\u00eda at that time of year, thanks to all of the construction.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"anno-right\" data-count=\"0\">\n<div class=\"regular\">\n<div class=\"count\"><span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"anno-span\">The movie industry is an important contributor to the economy in Andalusia, the region with the <a href=\"http:\/\/epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu\/cache\/ITY_PUBLIC\/1-15042014-BP\/EN\/1-15042014-BP-EN.PDF\">highest unemployment rate in all of Europe<\/a> (pdf). \u201cFilm producers use drones a lot,\u201d Querol said, \u201cespecially in pre-production to get things ready, prepare shots and look for possible camera positions.\u201d She added, \u201cof course [drone images] promote Spain abroad, in our case as a great place to film movies\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/200011\/spains-sudden-ban-on-drones-is-a-punch-in-the-gut-for-its-film-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Bennett \u2014 Quartz Last October, Ridley Scott and more than a thousand extras and film crew arrived in Andalusia, in southern Spain, to shoot Exodus, his new epic about the life of Moses starring Christian Bale. \u201cThey spent a whole month here\u201d, Piluca Querol, the director of the Andalusia Film Commission, told Quartz: \u201cIt\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64994,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions\/64994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}