Clackamas County, OR Filming & Production: Student Filming (2026)

MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION, shall mean and include all activity attendant to staging or shooting commercial motion pictures, television shows or programs, commercials, and student films produced to satisfy a post-secondary school course requirement at an educational institution in any medium including film, tape or digital format.

D. NEWS MEDIA, shall mean the photographing, filming or videotaping for the purpose of spontaneous, unplanned television news broadcast or reporting for print media by reporters, photographers or camerapersons.

E. PUBLIC, EDUCATIONAL, AND GOVERNMENT ACCESS CENTERS shall mean photographing, filing, or videotaping:

1. For the purposes of:

a. Promoting communities within Clackamas County, including local organizations;

b. Making government more accessible and understandable by offering information about services, meetings, workshops, programs, projects, activities, the history of the region, and public meetings;

c. Creating documentaries and local productions; and

d. The teaching of film and media productions techniques such as camera work, editing, and studio productions;

2. By local community media centers supported by the municipalities, educational institutions, and cable subscribers within Clackamas County.

F. STUDIO shall mean a fixed place of business certified as such by local fire authority having jurisdiction where filming activities (motion or commercial photography) are regularly conducted upon the premises.