Registering Locations

Your home and property is your business.  By registering your location with the OFC, you may end up seeing it on screen.  We work with producer clients to help them find the perfect shooting locations and your contribution to our archival options may be just what they’re looking for.

The OFC is now e-connected with VisionNet.  Please visit our online location registry to complete your application.  Instructions are provided.

See below as the ideal application is best described by our provincial partners at the BC Film Commission who have written the following guidelines:

How to Register

The first step is to create a digital "photofile" of your property – a virtual tour in pictures. It’s best to use a digital camera, although you can use a standard camera as long as you save the final pictures digitally for upload.  We recommend compiling them on a CD, burning one copy for your records and sending the other to the OFC.  If you don’t know how to do this yourself, your local photo lab or camera shop can do it for you.

The following Photofile Guidelines describe the process for documenting a residential property.  Please follow these guidelines for all property types you wish to register, as the same principles apply for effective documentation.

Photofile Guidelines

1. Photograph your Property

Photograph your property using the widest shots possible.

• Start with the outside of your house.
• Shoot your neighbourhood street looking both ways.
• Take a wide shot of the house, driveway and yard.
• Take a wide shot of the back yard and back of house.

2. Interior Photoshoot

Next shoot the inside of the house one room at a time.

• Pay attention to any special features (bay windows, indoor pool, stairway).
• Try to duplicate the experience of someone arriving at the location walking through the building.
• Stand on one side of the room you are photographing and take a picture.
• Next, take a "reverse" shot by walking over to the opposite side of the room and take a photograph of the area you were just standing in.
• Show entrances in your photos if possible.

3. Save Imagery

Save each image onto a CD as a JPEG file.

• Make sure you label each location image accordingly (eg. "kitchen.jpg," "bathroom.jpg," "back view.jpg").
• Please do NOT add any text directly onto a photo, we are unable to use any images containing text.
• Be sure you include contact information in your location upload and when you send us your CD in the mail, add this info to the disk using a permanent marker.
• PLEASE NOTE: We do not accept images submitted in PowerPoint or any other format other than individual JPEG files.

4.Sign the Consent Form

You must include a signed and dated copy of the release and consent form with your CD, otherwise we cannot use your location photos.  These forms are legal drafts created by our partners the BC Film Commission.

As a regional film commission working with the province to best suit clients’ needs we regularly send our locations from the Okanagan to the BC Film Commission Digital Library for upload.  Considering these procedures, in registering with the OFC Okanagan property owners are now being given the opportunity to market through inclusion in our public archives, the provincial library, and the privatized VisionNet resource for producers.

• To obtain a printed copy of the consent and release, please click here.
• Remember to save all photos as JPEG's, and do not include more than one location in a file.
• Please remember to provide contact information including the property owner or authorized person, phone numbers including cell number, address and postal code with your photofile.