Wednesday 3 March 2010

The Interview... Locations. Check.

For our film script we have one real location that we need for a long time, which is a police station (interview room and cell). As the other locations park, shop and office only include still shots.
Even though only pictures were being taken, the locations were nethertheless tricky to attain. As we are insured students with a film script about schizophrenia, we thought people would jump at the idea. However, this was not the case as Sainsbury's, Co-op and Tesco's (I only chose sainsbury's logo because it looks nice on my blog) would not allow us to film in their stores because the police were in the film, but Sainsbury's in particular didn't like the idea of a schizophrenic in their store! The police however, were very long winded about the procedure, as they never really gave us a direct answer, and kept asking us to call back later and call other stations, one of which didn't have a cell! But they are busy and do have crime to fight!

At the same time Elspeth had been in contact with both Bath and Bristol film offices, who helped us attain the park and an old police station, that was now Brideswell Art Centre, that still had interview rooms and cells! After visiting this epic breath taking dungeon, I knew that it was going to make the film epochal. Take a look for yourself!

With this out of the way we had less to worry about, and after walking around university we managed to get permission to film in the campus shop, and in the head librarian (Alison Baud) is allowing us to use her office. Although we highly wanted to avoid using any university locations as they will be in black and white it will make them seem very generic. Also even though they may be recognisable to our class, it won't be at all to wider audiences, and with all the shops I have spoken it is our only option.

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