#25: La La Land
Set Piece: Opening Number
Location: Harbor Freeway, Los Angeles, California
Production Budget: $30 million*
La La Land was a big hit in 2016, winning many awards and melting hearts everywhere. The movie starts with the catchy song “Another Day of Sun,” shot on the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles, California. It’s designed to look like a single, six-minute shot, but it’s actually three shots stitched together.

They used a crane-mounted camera for most of the scene. Apart from the scenes on the 32-mile-long freeway, the rest of the movie was filmed in different parts of Los Angeles from August to September 2015.