Getting there....

ok... so what have I done from the last time I wrote? ....

Since I am doing "Stangers on a train", I got together a few ideas of where I could do the location shoots. As some of the film is set in a theme park, It would be an idea to hunt down some theme parks nearby... I couldn't think of any except the little family park on Dawlish Warren. These went ok, and I think that in the summer holiday times, it will be packed wich will make the park look slightly bigger and it will have more character to it. most of the rides were closed at the time that I went so I could only shoot from the barrier. Most of the ries are old style like the carousel and the dodgems, all the rides like the film.

I also tried to find somewhere that looked like a train carriage like the film, I decided not to photograph the modern trains at the moment, but to go with a slightly more older and authentic style, so my first thoughts was to shoot one of the main seating areas in the Goodbodies 24hr cafe on the Mutley Plain, however every time that I went in, the manager was not there so today I took a stroll down the mutley pain and stopped in some of the pubs. I targeted some of the older style seating booths there, These work not bad but the light was very dim which made it hard to photograph. I dont think I will go with these, but I'm closer than I was before to finding somewhere ideal.

hmm... I cant upload anymore photos on this blog... probs should have done them all together, I will upload them onto my next blog.

I also went up to the moors. It was a good drive and I was looking at the roads and the land around them. deserted. I got confused between strangers on a train and also North by Northwest. I was going along the lines of trying to recreate part of the film where Roger Thornhill is on his way to meet chaplin and is getting attacked by a plain in the middle of no-where. However I then realised when I got home from the moors that that was the wrong film... but on the upside, I got some good photos and I will hopefully be able to use them in this project somehow.

Anyway... better go now. bye