Finalisation of Roles & Shoot Schedule

Production Roles
Milena: Director, Concept Artist, Modeler
Janine: Lead Modeler, Texture Artist
Caroline: Compositor, Animator (posing)
Siobhan: Lead Animator, Rigger ((goo simulation))
Tomas: Technical Director (lighting, pipeline, rendering) ((goo simulation))

Shoot Roles
Milena: Director, Extra
Janine: Extras Coordinator / Costume Supervisor, Extra
Caroline: Script Supervisor, Extra
Siobhan: Actor for Horny
Tomas: Camera Operator, Extra

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Update on shoot details:
On Monday the 28th, Janine and Siobhan will take the car & Horny's costume to Manchester. The Underground team will take the train to Manchester, stopping at London to shoot the underground footage (probably on the Northern Line between Waterloo & Euston, stopping at Tottenham Court for the platform shoot).
We sleep at Janine's place.
Next morning we shoot at the bus depot from 9/10 till 2:30, take the train to London, wait till sundown to set out on the night shoot (at this point I'd say it's a two-stop tour, centered around Portland Street & Borough and maybe grabbing something near Waterloo since we'll be there anyways) and return to Bournemouth.

Platform choices

For the application form for the Underground we have to state which stations and lines we will be filming on.

I've do a quick search on the platforms and saved a few of my favourite so if you could have a look and say which you prefer, or if you know of any better suited stations.

Milena still needs to write the script but the scenes in which we actually require to film on the platform will be of people entering/leaving the tube and at least one of the creatures lurking.

 Baker Street

 Mornington Cresent

 Notting Hill Gate

 Temple

 Tottenham Court












I circled them on the map to see where they are in relation to the stations in which we will be entering and leaving London (Waterloo and Euston.)

Bus Filming

So we have a permanent record:
 
The bus company have confirmed Tuesday the 29th of October for us to film there.

It'll be a double decker bus, company Stagecoach.
We are only allowed to film inside the bus, which will be cordoned off outside in the rear yard at the Hyde Road Depot.

I need to double check the timings as he said something contradicting himself so I'll get back to you on that but it would approximately be 9/10-2:30. But they may be lenient with this with it being in the holidays.

But this means Milena can now confirm the London Underground shoot around this and then we'll be able to arrange transport.

Horny Maquette

A maquette of Horny's head. Only one of the horns is depicted; also they'll be slightly larger, it's just that the plasticine was too heavy.

I think me and Janine will be doing maquettes for most of the characters to help with the 3d visualisation.

London Location Scout

So me and Milena went on a Location Scout in London and took a few snaps of some streets that interested us. We tried to find a mixture of locations: some busy roads, others quiet. I'm going to draw up a map and maybe do a bit of 'Google mapping' to find other locations, we wanted to keep it fairly contained so travelling with the equipment is kept to a minimum.

Newcomen Street

St Thomas Street
(jnt. London Bridge Street)

Tooley Street
(outside London Bridge train entrance)

Bermondsey Street

Saint Katharine's Way

Great Portland Street underground

197 Great Portland Street

Great Portland Street
(jnt. Weymouth Street)

New Cavendish Street
(jnt. Gosfield Street)

41 Portland Place

Marylebone Road
(Regent Park station)

Cab Road
(Waterloo station)






Maphom Street

Short Street

Union Street

Snapped some photographs of animals with horns at the National History Museum for some inspiration for 'Horny'.

Irish Elk

 Dorcas gazelle

Saiga

Addax

Springbok

Arabian oryx

 Blackbuck

 Pronghorn

 Blue Wildebeest

Gazella

 Impala

 Lesser kudu

 Gerenuk

 Black wildebeest

 Blesbok

 Moose

 Bongo

 Caribou

 Dall's sheep

 Musk-ox

 Yak

Spanish ibex

Mouflon