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Tuesday 6 November 2012

Location Scouting - Outside London Part 2

A few more locations outside London that would be good to film an action/ thriller in:




Fullers Earth Works


This location is incredible - a deserted factory less than an hour away! It is the perfect setting for an action sequence, following the conventions of the Terminator films and many episodes of 24. There is so much potential for brilliant film making here, but there are a few problems: it's due for destruction very soon and has a risk of asbestos, which of course makes it dangerous. We could use this location, but we'd have to be very careful, and have to make sure we got it all filmed in one day, which could be very hard.

Robins Cinema

This location is an abandoned cinema, which looks extremely good! It is easy to imagine a shootout taking place between aisles and chairs in the empty, run down cinema, and it would make a very cool location. It's also a very interesting location; audiences would be stunned by the creativity of filming in a disused cinema, and this would work very nicely. The downside is that is takes a fair bit of scrambling over rubble to get to, and the lighting could become an issue...otherwise, it's a very fine location indeed!

St Peter's Mortuary

It may be a little creepy filming in a disused mortuary, and a few of the people I was planning to shoot with are a little unwilling, but this is a really good location! It's practically just been deserted, leaving everything the way it should be, which is good for an interrogation scene, or something like that. However there is an obvious issue about filming where the dead have been kept, and I can hardly ask my lead actor to lie on a mortuary operating table. The location is very good otherwise, totally accessible, legal and cinematic!


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