Friday 4 March 2011

No more Warehouse

Mike, Tom, Dan, Caitlin and I went back to the warehouse to grasp how to light the area.
Things after off rough when we saw that there was no way to cover the lights, the place was full of windows that were way off the ground. This would cause the background to consistently change.
The entrance where we wanted to film would be used all day, so we had to change the location to a raised section of the warehouse. Workers would be laminating (causing a lot of noise) throughout the day.
Then we found out we'd only have the location on some random date for four hours. This just wouldn't work. Nothing was in our favor to film at this location. Although we found some great equipment on the top half of the warehouse, I made the decision to have the interesting warehouse gear sent to the tv studio instead of taking the conveyor belt to the warehouse to film.
This worked out perfectly, as Caitlin had already booked the tv studio for two days for our green screen stuff. Now we have as much access as we want in the tv studio, Tom can build the conveyor belt behind the studio and lift it right onto set, and we can control everything.
Plus, the van that we were going to pay 30 pounds for to ship the warehouse equipment said it would be an additional 200 pounds, which is obviously ridiculous. So we ended up saving a bunch of money on a moving van as well.
As time gets closer to the film dates, it's obvious that more cuts like this will be made to make everything easier and so I'm glad we came to this decision two weeks before filming instead of two days.

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