You don’t need anyone else’s permission to use your apartment but you have to think of the impact on your neighbours and on common property.
Having worked in TV myself, I can tell you that the producer and crew are focussed on one basic thing, getting the show made as efficiently as possible both in terms of cost and the quality of the end product.
Your relationship with your neighbours is not very high on their list of priorities – unless it’s likely to impact on the show (hammer drills, vacuum cleaners and loud music going off whenever the director calls “action!”, for instance).
You might also need their OK on parking of trucks etc.
In your position, I would inform the neighbours as a courtesy in the first instance and ask them if they have any concerns. I would then talk to the producers about minimising the impact of the production on the rest of the building.
For instance, if they can arrange to “bump in” and “bump out” all their equipment in the minimum number of trips, rather than having a constant stream of crew members going back and forth to the trucks, that will help you a lot.
And maybe a small financial consideration to the OC would smooth things over too. In short, it’s possible to minimise the impact to a certain extent and otherwise compensate for the disruption.
But when the circus has rolled out of town, you will still want to be able to get on with your neighbours so tell them what you are doing and how you are planning to minimise the disruption to their lives and all should be sweet.
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