A movie crew was shooting on location.
    對(duì)話
    Lennie: You'll never guess what was going on in our town last week.
    Freda: Go on, surprise me.
    Lennie: A movie crew was shooting on location in the town square.
    Freda: Really? Why did they choose your town?
    Lennie: Because the square's full of old buildings which were a perfect background for the kind of historical movie they were making.
    Freda: I'd love to have been there. I've never seen a movie crew in action before.
    倫尼：你怎么都不會(huì)猜到上星期我們城里發(fā)生了什么事。
    弗里達(dá)：你說吧，看有什么意料不到的。
    倫尼：有一支電影工作隊(duì)在城市廣場拍攝外景。
    弗里達(dá)：是嗎？他們?yōu)槭裁催x了你們的城市？
    倫尼：因?yàn)槟浅鞘袕V場有很多舊建筑物，正好當(dāng)他們那部歷史電影的背景。
    弗里達(dá)：假如當(dāng)時(shí)我在那里就好了。我從沒見過電影工作隊(duì)拍攝的過程。
    電影一般不是在攝影棚拍攝，就是在實(shí)地拍外景?！趯?shí)地’英文叫on location。Location通常指‘地點(diǎn)’或‘場所’，例如：That is a perfect location for a hotel（那是興建旅館最理想的地方）。Location也可指電影的外景，常見于on location這詞組，例如：(1) The pub provided a good location for the gunfight scenes（那酒館是拍攝槍戰(zhàn)場面的好地方）。(2) The movie was shot in two different locations: Hong Kong and Tokyo / The movie was shot on location in Taipei and Tokyo（那部電影在香港、東京兩地拍攝外景）。留意location是可數(shù)名詞(countable noun)，但在on location之中卻是不可數(shù)名詞(uncountable noun)。此外，location也可作形容詞，例如：More than half of the location scenes were shot in New York（外景場面有半數(shù)以上是在紐約拍攝的）。至于在電影攝影棚拍攝，英文是to be shot/made/filmed in the studio。Studio本是指藝術(shù)家的工作室，例如：Picasso's studio was frequented by the rich（畢加索的畫室常有富豪來訪）。Movie/film studio則是電影攝影棚，We visited a movie studio during the summer vacation即‘我們暑假期間去參觀一家電影制片廠’。作電影公司的名字，studio常用復(fù)數(shù)形式，例如：(1) The Walt Disney Studios has made a romantic movie recently（狄斯耐電影公司最近拍了一部浪漫電影）。(2) The movie was filmed almost entirely in the studio（這部電影幾乎全在電影廠里拍攝）。