In which our intrepid scouts head into Bath...
Yesterday afternoon was given over to location scouting. Megan, Jaeeun and I traipsed around the Newton Park offices looking for first-floor offices with sash-opening windows (we need it for the plot) -- but the only ones that might fit the bill aren't open at weekends. So it looks as if I'll be asking around in Bristol to resolve the problem.
But meanwhile, back at the campus Megan and I headed into Bath to check out street and pub locations for another scene. Where possible, it's always a good idea to get more than one location in case it rains or in case something else crops up, so we went to two venues. X might mark the spot on one occasion, but there's no guarantee that it will do so on the big day.
The Hobgoblin is a small pub with bare floorboards that specializes in metal pounding out at high volume. But Darren the barman seemed remarkably unfazed by our request to film in his cellar, even when we mentioned that we needed to simulate a robbery. I bought a pint of Gem to drink while Darren took Megan down to the cellar to take stills. It looks like the cellar may be too narrow, but we have another meeting on Monday to evaluate the stills.
Unfortunately we didn't get any joy out of the second venue, The Raven. It looks a bigger, better venue but Danny the barman couldn't take us down, and the Manager and Manageress were out at the time.
Looks like I'll be going into Bath again next week...
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