Having filmed our documentary in castle market we had a good repor with staff members thus making the process of securing the building as a location for the drama an easier task. Both myself and Henry approached the security staff we were acquainted with who then introduced us to Andrew Chapel the head of castle market. We discussed our intention to use the market once again for filming and what necessary arrangements would be made on both our parts, we then met again with a schedule that outlined the times in which we desired the premisses as well as an agreement, Andrew had no problem with our intentions and was more than happy to aid our production.
Following the hand in of the schedule we had a meeting in a conference room with Andrew and the head of security to discuss any further details that we hadn't already outlined. In our storyboards that I helped Henry draw up and the script itself there is a reference to Adam Praed sitting in his office on two occasions and having spent time in various parts of the market we noticed a small office that contained monitors which the security staff manned during their shifts, naturally we recognised this as a prime location to shoot Adam Praed's office scenes as it had all the necessary art direction and wouldn't have to be dressed so heavily which was ideal for us in terms of time and good for the staff as we wouldn't have to alter any of their property. Andrew was fine with us using this room for our shoot however due to its need to be manned throughout the night shifts that we were shooting in Andrew arranged that we would have to film on a certain night (thursday) this date was then written into the schedule, following this I contacted David Parkin to let him know that we would be shooting those scenes on that thursday so that he could get prepared.
As we would be bringing a large amount of filming gear to each shoot Andrew kindly allowed us to store our equipment in a locked room after on our request, this room was monitored during the day by staff and locked throughout its time being stored. This became a great advantage to the filming week as we wouldn't need to transport equipment to and from the market apart from the thursday to re-checkout the gear.
Parking was secured throughout the week of filming for actors and crew, this was towards the rear of the building in the loading bay which in the day was used by traders, this meant that actors need not worry about finding parking, saving valuable time also meaning that we as a crew would avoid any parking fees in relation to the budget.
Upon this meeting I presented Andrew with the location agreement form to certify on paper that we could use the property for this week of filming, the location was then fully secured for the shoot.
We had concerns of where we would film the interview scene, Andrew kindly let us use an old disused office on the top floor of the building which made the art direction an easier task as much of the office space still contained various items, the room was also large enough to set up the two shots Henry had storyboarded. Andrew also granted us permission to film in the larger office space which was still being used.
In our meeting with Andrew we also discussed the following issues:
Lighting
Power (sockets)
Notifying security of our intentions
Safety and evacuation from the building
A schedule of filming indicating which parts of the market we would be using on each shoot
What equipment we would be using
Setting up the monitors to film a precise part of the market
Recreation room for actors and catering
All of these issues were adressed and sorted before the meeting was adjourned.
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