Doctor Who fanfilm: Locations needed.

[icebluenothing]

Calling all location scouts! I've gotten a little sidetracked these past couple of weeks, but I do still want to shoot my Doctor Who video. Here's where I need your help.

I'm going to need the following locations for filming my fan vid. There are some street shots, scenes in the woods, and other throwaway locations, but those I'm inclined to just shoot-and-run without bothering with permission. But these are locations I need to actually nail down.

Suggestions welcome. Offers even more welcome -- if your home or workplace would be suitable for any of these, please speak up. (So long as you're absolutely sure that having me and my little film crew come in won't get you in trouble with where you work or live. In other words, make sure you're in a position to actually grant permission.)

We need:

Office building interiors. Specifically, we need a cubicle we can film in, and a hallway with an elevator.

Parking garage. Needs to convincingly be the parking garage of the aforementioned office building, so while an apartment building's parking garage would probably be fine, it needs to have that "official" kind of look to it, if you know what I mean. If it comes down to it, I'll probably use the UW's parking garage -- they're used to LARPers and other weirdos.

Coffee shop. Shouldn't be too hard to come by in Seattle. (I'd ask Aurafice, since I've done so many readings there, but I'm looking for something with a more "mainstream" look.)

A workshop. This needs to be a fairly sizeable space that I can bring some fairly large props into. I'm thinking a clean, empty garage, or a loft-space of some kind. The script involves a scientist who's building a new energy source on his own time and resources, so this will be that workshop. I'm very flexible on what kind of space this is.

Convenience store parking lot. Again, probably a shot I can steal, but getting permission would be better. (ulrich?)

Urban setting -- TARDIS landing site. Might be kind of a tricky one to arrange .... The TARDIS, for those unfamiliar, is box a little bigger than a phone booth. I need somewhere in "the city" that the TARDIS can be parked. Ideally an alleyway or something like that, if anyone reading this works somewhere that has one out back .... Maybe a parking lot? Street outside a business? Wherever we can get permission for, really. Go nuts.

Rock pit, quarry, or something similar. For an alien planet scene, of course. Another tricky one. Filming here isn't going to be extensive, so a day trip would do it -- but still, somewhere reasonably close to Seattle. Oh, and we need to be able to drive a car out into the middle of it, too, so we need somewhere we can get permission to do that, or somewhere that won't care.

Comments

[kespernorth.livejournal.com]

How fast can you do this?

Because the parking garage, cubicle and hallway are all readily available at F5, complete with evening and weekend access... provided we do it by the 18th.

(After that, perhaps Martin would be willing to help with access? My new job is not nearly so spatially interesting as F5, and is kind of short on cubes.)

As for the "urban setting", what about the alley right next to my apartment?

[cithra.livejournal.com]

I think I can get you a coffee shop. My roommates own Espresso Ulysses, which is at 318 Blanchard in Belltown - on Blanchard between 3rd and 4th. It's pretty normal looking, and while I don't recall if they are big time Whovians, they're Skiffy geeks enough I bet they'd be up for it.

Espresso Ulysses

[cithra.livejournal.com]

Update: I talked to the eponymous owner this morning, and he's up for it. He reminded me they are closed on Sundays, so there is even one day a week totally free for filming and the resultant circus involved. :)

Re: Espresso Ulysses

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

That is insanely awesome. Thank you so much!

[calandria.livejournal.com]

For the quarry, I'm not positive, but I beleive there is one in NE Tacoma. I also beleive there is one in Lakewood close to 74th and Bridgeport.

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

I don't have any leads on locations. However, what I can do is that if nothing comes through at first, let me know and I'll send a post to the Theater of Puget Sound mailing list asking for locations.

Also, how far are you able to drive to a shooting location?

[rev-blacky.livejournal.com]

There's always Bauhaus or Vita for coffeehouses...
For Parking Garage, I am picturing either UW or the one downtown on 3rd and Pine...
Plenty of alleys downtown, or the one between University and Brooklyn anywhere from 40th to 65th...

[pulpguy.livejournal.com]

There are some great rocky areas out in the Monroe / Sultan area along with plenty of forest and tree stumps.

Lots of folks use them for shooting practice, but I am sure there are plenty of times when they are free.