Ann Arbor is going to his the big screen again! Yet another movie is being filmed in Ann Arbor.
This time on June 18th, neighbors of Virginia Park, located just north of W. Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, received a letter from the city. The note from parks and recreation services manager Colin Smith alerted them to the filming of the Rob Reiner movie “Flipped,” to take place towards the end of July. Construction of the set, according to the letter, would begin as early as June 22 2009.
Part of this set construction involves the delicate task of trimming some branches on two of the park’s sycamore trees. Some of the neighbors of the park were skeptical about the trim job for the sycamore tree, which is slated for movie stardom.
The story of “Flipped” partly involves a young girl, Juli, who’s trying to save a tree. In the identically-named youth novel by Wendelin Van Draanen, on which the movie is based, it’s a lone sycamore tree that Juli wants to save.
Digital technology will be used to remove one of the trees completely. The trimming of the two trees was undertaken to achieve a visual separation of the tree canopies, to allow digital removal of the second tree – the one to the north. The resulting shot will depict a single, lone free-standing tree, as in the book.
Naturally of course asides from the prestige of having another movie/tv show made in Ann Arbor it also provides a great boost to the economy – the workers have to eat and sleep somewhere, and there are jobs created for locals or work for existing businesses that would not otherwise exist.
In addition the park is being rented out by the city to the production company for $100 per day and with 49 days of filming, that will yield $4,900 in revenue for the city!
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