This blog post is all about the setup, which means location and gear, am I right?

The Thornbury Bowls Club was a sweet location, but being the insecure introverted younglings we are, we decided to have multiple backups. These backups included:

The Croxton Tennis Courts:

Whilst certainly suburban and pretty close to all of us, it was maybe a little too edgy and certainly had no ‘club room’ facilities to speak of. Unless an abandoned public toilets counts?

 

The Eltham Tennis Courts:

Super pretty in low lights and right next to a super sweet train station which added to the visual appeal. However it was in the middle of essentially nowhere and the club room was pretty drab.

 

Both these locations pale in comparison to the ~ Magnificent Thornbury Bowls Club ~ :

I mean look at this place, it’s a fucking dream. Super close to all of us and with a superb club room. This place would require minimal art department – a dream for povo film students such as myself.

The other two locations were pretty easy to gain access to, but we were intimidated by the bowling club, it was too good?! Still we sent them an email, hoping for a positive reply and alas, they were quite happy to accomodate us and receive essentially nothing in return. It’s always worth asking, I guess?

Once we had the location setup we decided to start organising everything else we needed to get these films done. Which meant organising emailing the ‘AV Loans Guys’ and the ‘Building 9 Tech Dudes’ asking for a: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EOS 6D, Rosie’s Canon Cam, Canon 50mm Prime Lens, Two Canon Kit Lenses, Three Dedo Spotlights + all the accessories, two tripods, a Sony Zoom and a monitor.

After we sorted out the gear, Sam and I started compiling costume ideas, potential soundtrack songs, potential title cards and inspirational screen grabs regarding tone and composition (some of these images can be seen in a previous blog post of mine). Whilst Rosie and Bell further developed their scripts so we could begin sending them out to interested actors, as well as creating draft storyboards.

 

Until next time,

Louise Wilson