London
An earlier post shows the efforts of our location hunting. But as the negotiations with the B.F.I. became harder as we needed to use a section closer to the entrance without anybody else in frame, this was obviously an issue for the B.F.I. with constant inflow and outflow of customers.
With one location down before we even left, it became increasingly aware that we were adding the London location for scale, it not only didn't not add anything to the narrative, it slowed it down, and complicated an already hectic plot. Ultimately the story is the main thing, and if something is holding back that story, even if a lot of work has been put into it, and it works in another context, it needs to be removed.
The drawbacks for this, is the odd location i liked, The tunnel myself and Peter found with the changing colors and lights. (Admittedly the changing colors did make more sense when each member of the gang had an individual color scheme, this was deemed unnecessary in later drafts of the script)
The Abandoned House
We located three different abandoned houses, the first two were abandoned due to the permission needed, we came lucky with the their house, as it's had plans to be demolished for a while now (there was even a JCB outside when we arrived) the company now in possession allowed us to shoot, (this was aided as we found out during the editing process the year above had used it in
2008).
We were incredibly fortunate with this location as the archaic setting adds to the rustik physicality of our media product.
An earlier post shows the efforts of our location hunting. But as the negotiations with the B.F.I. became harder as we needed to use a section closer to the entrance without anybody else in frame, this was obviously an issue for the B.F.I. with constant inflow and outflow of customers.
With one location down before we even left, it became increasingly aware that we were adding the London location for scale, it not only didn't not add anything to the narrative, it slowed it down, and complicated an already hectic plot. Ultimately the story is the main thing, and if something is holding back that story, even if a lot of work has been put into it, and it works in another context, it needs to be removed.
The drawbacks for this, is the odd location i liked, The tunnel myself and Peter found with the changing colors and lights. (Admittedly the changing colors did make more sense when each member of the gang had an individual color scheme, this was deemed unnecessary in later drafts of the script)
The Abandoned House
We located three different abandoned houses, the first two were abandoned due to the permission needed, we came lucky with the their house, as it's had plans to be demolished for a while now (there was even a JCB outside when we arrived) the company now in possession allowed us to shoot, (this was aided as we found out during the editing process the year above had used it in
2008).We were incredibly fortunate with this location as the archaic setting adds to the rustik physicality of our media product.
Tim McNiven
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