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[Bakers_12]

Some Disused office space could be mocked up to look like a hospital might be cheeper?

[European Chris]

[Juxta]

I would like to request a second and third pair please - my cats have both just expressed a desire to try the same experiment out on certain parts of Chris.

J

[jojojojo]

After watching "Alien Autopsy" at the weekend (Really good actually) it amazed me how regular cuts of butchers meat can be made to look like body parts. They made up a mock lab in a corner of someones living room.

If it's a close shot for the hospital scene, we won't need much space, just some carefully decorated fake walls and some surgically coloured curtains to screen off the rest of the area. Once the plot line is up and running, I can help do sketches of the scenary etc. And being a thrify madam, I'll make sure its cheap to construct.

[mac_monkey]

That's excellent jojojojo thanks!

[Bakers_12]

[echidna]

[Fiera]

[echidna]

Sorry Fiera - I think you misunderstood me. I know the importance of a scenic breakdown - this is the field I work in after all. What I'm saying is that the writers shouldn't feel constrained (certainly not this early on in the process) by worrying about whether we might or might not be able to find suitable locations for their scenes - that would just compromise the creative process.

We don't need the entire set of ER to suggest a hospital - following from what jojojojo said and my own experience, you can suggest a location just by using a minimalist background and convincing props and costume. After all, there's no need for this film to be all gritty realism - it can be as stylised or as minimalist as we want (and given the no-budget it may well have to be).

[mac_monkey]

I think the last two posts bring up some interesting points; the losictics of an international guerilla filmmaking type shoot and the necessity to think outside the box. I agree with echidna that we need to be creative and we can use our imagination and the sheer numbers of varied people from different fields that we have here to pull this thing off. I don't think there are any limits on this we have people to make it happen, and we can make compramises here and there if we need to.

The only thing holding us back at the moment is the lack of script so I'd suggest maybe morphing some of the ideas and suggestions we have here into something interesting, ultimately that's duckie's job but please all feel free to start summarising consensuses of ideas

Oh and naturally the script would be broken down by locations and also by actors segments, don't worry about the logistics at the moment-be creative. It's better to comprimise on ideas than to have unimaginitive ones!

[duckiemonster]

Seeing as I work in a hospital, I really don't think it'll be a problem. There are ways and means, and pretty much every room in the place has the capability of becoming a 'ward' for a sick person should the need arise.

[Scott]

[jojojojo]

[echidna]

[European Chris]