Big news for me guys, I have a massive ex-radio station (http://photobucket.com/albums/b98/zerolux/) available to film in. It consists of 8 or so small rooms, an orange kitchen, bathroom, 2 main recording rooms (complete with sound proofing and re-enforced doors) and 2 large warehouse style rooms and much more. It has wide warehouse styled windows but they face south so they don't get much light But I do have plaster walls I can demolish! :bang:



The only problem is it doesn't have electricity but I can get it within a couple of weeks and I should have until the end of the year before the studio is renovated and ready for the owners to use. I'm thinking of a possible Reservior Dogs styled film or film through the glass in the recording studios to make an interigation room. Basically i'm looking for something dark / menacing / completely crazy and it looks like I will be shooting many short films considering the time I have.

If anyone has any ideas or tips to help me get the most out of this rare opportunity (I am open to the craziest ideas imaginable) I will sell you my soul :deal:

Post some photos. That will help illicit any potential ideas.

...good for you!

....do you already know what you will be shooting or are you still thinking about(trying to come up with) an idea? How long will the space be available to you?

--spinner :cool:

It could easily be a mental asylum. http://www.stevenrichards.com/images/smiley_creepy.gif

Or how about using that room with the long window as some kind of quarantine ward at the CDC, or similar?

If a location inspires you cool! Whatever it takes to get an idea going.

...office building.....dormitory with study room (room with long window)......abandoned warehouse.....music recording studio (there's a good one, use that long window).....police precinct....

...maybe not so dark or menacing, but anything could be made dark and menacing

--spinner

Big news for me guys, I have a massive ex-radio station (http://photobucket.com/albums/b98/zerolux/) available to film in. It consists of 8 or so small rooms, an orange kitchen, bathroom, 2 main recording rooms (complete with sound proofing and re-enforced doors) and 2 large warehouse style rooms and much more. It has wide warehouse styled windows but they face south so they don't get much light But I do have plaster walls I can demolish! :bang:



The only problem is it doesn't have electricity but I can get it within a couple of weeks and I should have until the end of the year before the studio is renovated and ready for the owners to use. I'm thinking of a possible Reservior Dogs styled film or film through the glass in the recording studios to make an interigation room. Basically i'm looking for something dark / menacing / completely crazy and it looks like I will be shooting many short films considering the time I have.

If anyone has any ideas or tips to help me get the most out of this rare opportunity (I am open to the craziest ideas imaginable) I will sell you my soul :deal:

John Carpenter's remake of THE THING comes to mind based on your new location opportunity... Possibly some kind of story where tempers flare, nobody trusts anyone, etc...

Good luck with it!

filmy

haha great ideas guys. After hearing these suggestions it looks like i will be making more films then I expected... I particually like the paranoid 'The Thing' idea by filmjumper. I guess that would work well in covering as much of the warehouse as I wanted. I don't know if any of you have seen it or how I can do it, but I would like to have a similar weird feel to it as Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle.

Maybe I could make one studio as an interigation room and the opposite one as a decontamination room and film them at the same time (e.g. reflection of one room in the glass of the other if that makes sense). Perhaps this could all happen inside a mental asylum :lol:. Anyway I just loaded some more pictures at http://photobucket.com/albums/b98/zerolux/ clive. I should have until around about chirstmas holidays to film it in the state it is in now, but after then it will be renovated into lecture rooms somehow so the effect will be gone. Thanks for your help so far guys!

...okay, dude, THAT is an INSANE ASYLUM. That's what that is. :scared:

Pic #2: that is an observation room
Pic #3: nice rafters, all the better to hang someone from...
Pic #6: INSANE ASYLUM, nothing good can come from this place :eek:
Pic #7: really good waiting room, (waiting to DIE)

...you have hit the jackpot! You GOTTA do something great with this! I want the screenwriting, filmmaking, creative fairies to pour buckets of luck on you. I want the planets to align. I wish you all the luck you can get from every lucky penny and every four leaf clover you can find.

...and most of all, I want to see what you do with this when you are done! That place is soooo coool!

--spinner :cool:

Wow... Great location!

My head's spinning with ideas and it's not even my location... LOL.

Good luck!

filmy

Thanks for your kind wishes, especially spinner :lol: I knew I struck luck as soon as I opened the warehouse doors. It could be a hard task with no budget but i'm sure I can work things out and make something special. I'll keep you guys posted.

Well today we got the power back on and tomorrow we should be getting a safety inspector to inspect for safety:)

I've got an idea.

"24 Hour Pirates"

Four Girls start a rock band, but no one will take them seriously. So they decide to take over an abandoned radio station and turn it into their very own pirate radio. When the Police and the Radio Authority try to close them down, they baracade themselves in, refusing to come out until someone gives them a recording contract.

haha, great idea Clive! Though they will naturally need something to keep the police back - either threats to kill themselves or shoot police etc.

Though they will naturally need something to keep the police back - either threats to kill themselves or shoot police etc.

Yes, One of the reasons I like the idea is that it could either be played as a light comedy or as something that starts light but though the course of events spirals out of control.

Of course the other reason that this idea came up is that I'm working on a video concept for the girl band that I co-manage, "The Sexploits" who are about to record their first single. I may well use a variation of this idea for the video.

However, that said I just thought that this idea could easily become one of those quirky Australian Comedies that do well internationally, like "The Dish."

Ahhhh cheesy Australian comedies :lol: , something we are good at, I see the potential. I think I will decide on a story and write a script ready for the sepember holidays when I will start filming, preferably in one day as I will be hiring a decent camera.

I've got an idea.

"24 Hour Pirates"

Four Girls start a rock band, but no one will take them seriously. So they decide to take over an abandoned radio station and turn it into their very own pirate radio. When the Police and the Radio Authority try to close them down, they baracade themselves in, refusing to come out until someone gives them a recording contract.

It's a little "Airheads". I think it needs a twist. How about they go to hijack thier local radio station, but when they get there and FIND it's abandoned and venture inside, it turns out it's actually a facade. In the basement corridors, there is a room that is locked... and inside that room there is a man... something like that... maybe he turns out to be Jesus... maybe he's Pauly Shore... I'll leave that up to you!

The whole radio-station hijack was done in "Airheads" and I believe it was done well. Brandon Fraiser, Adam Sandler, Steve Buschemi, Micheal Richards, Chris Farley.. tons of good talents. Go check it out.. I rememeber enjoying it!

It's a little "Airheads". I think it needs a twist. How about they go to hijack thier local radio station, but when they get there and FIND it's abandoned and venture inside, it turns out it's actually a facade. In the basement corridors, there is a room that is locked... and inside that room there is a man... something like that... maybe he turns out to be Jesus... maybe he's Pauly Shore... I'll leave that up to you!

The whole radio-station hijack was done in "Airheads" and I believe it was done well. Brandon Fraiser, Adam Sandler, Steve Buschemi, Micheal Richards, Chris Farley.. tons of good talents. Go check it out.. I rememeber enjoying it!
...yeah, its kind of Airheads, but if often movies rework old ideas...(not that you would EVER do THAT :D )
Airheads meets Resident Evil might just work...

...uh, hey Clive, just out of curiosity, what kind of girl rock band? Rock like Destiny's Child or Rock like Kittie?
just wondering :hmm:

--spinner :cool:

I liked the fake uzi filled with 'ketchup'

"Airheads"

Will anyone believe me if I say I haven't seen it? Just goes to show that there's no such thing as a new idea.

Well, not in my head anyway. :lol:

I like the idea about there being someone else in there as well. Have you got a politican over there who having fallen from power in a sleazy scandal is now just a cheap media whore (we've got lots of them), someone like that living like a hobo in room pasted with their press clippings would be good.

...uh, hey Clive, just out of curiosity, what kind of girl rock band? Rock like Destiny's Child or Rock like Kittie?
just wondering

Rock like early Debbie Harry

Actually on a more serious note it might be worth you having a look at Luc Besson's first film "La Dernier Combat." The location you've got reminds me of that film for some reason. It's a wonderful film anyway.

Have you got a politican over there who having fallen from power in a sleazy scandal is now just a cheap media whore Like all capitalist countries we have our dodgy politicians( :( ) but one particular media whore who would make a great cowering 'hobo' inhabiting a lifeless dungeon is Douglas Wood.

I don't know if he is a big story in America but basically he is an Australian (but lives in the US) who was captured by iraqi 'criminals' but set free after 40 days or so. Anyway he has now sold his story to an Australian tv station and I feel he would be an easy target despite his trauma :lol:. Plenty of press clippings for him anyway... I like the idea of no dialogue like La Dernier Combat. I havn't seen it yet but I will keep an eye out for it.

...can't say that I've heard of him, Lux. In the U.S. we seem to be more preoccupied with each others sex lives...(well, not entirely, but enough to get on your nerves)...

--spinner :cool:

Ha I see how it is. I guess i'm being a little hard on poor Douglas. His exclusive story was just aired on tv and despite the soppy music and bad interviewing, I actually feel sorry for him (though he would still make a great extra...)

I don't know if he is a big story in America but basically he is an Australian (but lives in the US) who was captured by iraqi 'criminals' but set free after 40 days or so. Anyway he has now sold his story to an Australian tv station and I feel he would be an easy target despite his trauma .

...seems to me he's a lucky politician, questionable or otherwise. I don't think I know of one incident where a person held by 'Iraqi criminals' has ever lived to tell the tale... Over here, what we get is video of how someone will be killed after so many days or hours. Usually the person is reading something with two masked men with guns standing on either side. And then the next thing we know, we're seeing the persons family preparing for funeral services.... its sad, really....

--spinner :cool:

Same sort of thing in this case except he survived. Can't say the same about some of his fellow captors.... At least you havn't been getting any of those filmed beheadings like you did a while back. Not much you can say about it really.

A couple of days ago I had another look in the warehouse, got the blueprint but i'm still thinking of an idea...

I have finally come up with the concept for my short film:) but I have one question which could affect the idea I have. I know it's a bit of a cliché, but i'm looking at doing that lightning-strikes,wall-is-illuminated-showing-writing affect you see in horror films. Thing is I will be filming with natural daylight and I am yet to perfect my 'call of the gods' to create spontaneous thunder and lightning. Am I being realistic? Could I possibly use a photography studio light to create the lightning flash?

lux,

..whatever became of that big building you were trying to shoot in? Everything okay?....

--spinner :cool:

Hey Spinner, sorry I havn't been around much lately, things have been really busy. Bad news is that I didn't end up using the warehouse for my short film for a number of reasons, but the film I shot instead turned out well. It won an Achievment award at my HIgh School and I am sending a copy to a short film festival in Melbourne this week. I'll put the film up once I get a website sorted out.

Sorry for the anti-climax with this warehouse idea:P

Bummer 'bout the warehouse. If you're looking for a site host, I recommend servage.net. They've got one of the best deals I've seen on the internet and in the 2 years they've hosted my site, it's been down maybe half a day total. Really reliable and good customer service too.

Lol. "Airheads". That brought back memories.

"I was the member of my high school chess club. I used to eat my boogers. I used to play Dungeons and Dragons."
"Hey, I played D&D too!"
"I was the editor of my high school newspaper!"
"I used to masturbate...constantly!"

Thanks Serjus, I will have a good look at servage.net.

How about the last radio station in a zombie infested world?

Scott

I like the Zombie idea, for sure! I can see 2 windows in that one hallway.. guy is in one room, girl in the other, and they can see eachother, separated by 5 feet of a zombie infested hallway.


Also, I have storage space if ye be need'n any. Send me a PM with how large the file is and I'll set you up with space on one of my servers.

Man has to be a huge action film... Assault On Pr. 13 kinda deal. We had an idea along these lines to take that set up and expand it. But seriously you have the ideal location to do some kick arse stalking, hunting and fighting.

If it was in teh UK I'd be begging you to use it!

Thanks CootDog, that would be really great. I'm in a little spot of trouble at the moment, I burnt a few copies on dvd and forgot to make a mpg file on the comp :S I'll try and get it sorted out in the next few days and i'll PM you then. Thanks once again.