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Hi everyone (waves).
I thought I might post a link to an entry in my journal, made last night after a day in London on Saturday.
In this fandom we have a lot of very clever people - artists and writers and people who are good with re-creating costumes, people who can draw cartoons, people who are good with photoshop - but I have my own fan 'skill' I would like to share with you.
To quote a recent messenger conversation (which was then re-quoted to students at my college when I was invited into Media Studies to lecture on fans and fandom) ;
'I do buildings, body language and [these days] the occasional quarry.'
Yes, I location hunt in the UK, and then like to blog about it.
If someone has shot something somewhere, and I have reasonable interest in what they have done (and can get to the area relatively easily) I like go and have a snoop around and take a few photos.
Having spent ten years walking everywhere in and around London (and hiking outside in a lot of countryside too) I've got to be able to spot stuff on screen.
I know a lot about 1970s BBC SciFi locations having been around since I watched them as a child. Want to know which quarry Classic Dr Who shot which episode in? Well, I probably have walked past there and taken a photo. I might well have taken a film crew of two out to do reminiscence filming ... or taken a radio producer on a hike to find it too... Then there are the fans who like to have picnics on alien planets (or even celebrate their birthdays there). If you needed someone to co-ordinate that I was up for it too, while I still lived in the area. This is how I got my DW name ...
This has nothing to do with Sherlock of course, but my knowledge of London has. I no longer am actually in the capital (work moved me onwards six months ago) but I 'lead' a trip to that eventful location in Series Two [no spoilers here] as soon as the group of friends and fans I am part of could get together. Three weeks to the day we all congregated from far flung parts of the country. We went and paid our respectws. Then I marched them across central London (and without a map) up to Euston Road. We had fun and planned to do further stuff when I had researched it.
I haven't posted my 'findings' on that area here yet as I don't want to spoil America. If you do go by my blog beware; I have a lot of mutterings about the bizarre continuity oddities about multiple locations on rooftops. How to give someone like me a headache (but what fun to work it all out!)
Things will have to wait until May to be posted in full, and then I can say my piece and post my diagrams. I have actually got to do more work on that area as a whole (these telly people really like to get their value for money out of a location don't they). What I can provide at this early stage, however, is something more central and Series One based however.
This weekend, while I was taking a group of our kids to London for a day out, I got an hour and a half to sniff around in a very familiar place in Piccadilly Circus. Photos were taken, comparisons made and some personal memories of the place over the years are shared.
Here is the link to my DW account so you can have a look if you are interested.
I thought I might post a link to an entry in my journal, made last night after a day in London on Saturday.
In this fandom we have a lot of very clever people - artists and writers and people who are good with re-creating costumes, people who can draw cartoons, people who are good with photoshop - but I have my own fan 'skill' I would like to share with you.
To quote a recent messenger conversation (which was then re-quoted to students at my college when I was invited into Media Studies to lecture on fans and fandom) ;
'I do buildings, body language and [these days] the occasional quarry.'
Yes, I location hunt in the UK, and then like to blog about it.
If someone has shot something somewhere, and I have reasonable interest in what they have done (and can get to the area relatively easily) I like go and have a snoop around and take a few photos.
Having spent ten years walking everywhere in and around London (and hiking outside in a lot of countryside too) I've got to be able to spot stuff on screen.
I know a lot about 1970s BBC SciFi locations having been around since I watched them as a child. Want to know which quarry Classic Dr Who shot which episode in? Well, I probably have walked past there and taken a photo. I might well have taken a film crew of two out to do reminiscence filming ... or taken a radio producer on a hike to find it too... Then there are the fans who like to have picnics on alien planets (or even celebrate their birthdays there). If you needed someone to co-ordinate that I was up for it too, while I still lived in the area. This is how I got my DW name ...
This has nothing to do with Sherlock of course, but my knowledge of London has. I no longer am actually in the capital (work moved me onwards six months ago) but I 'lead' a trip to that eventful location in Series Two [no spoilers here] as soon as the group of friends and fans I am part of could get together. Three weeks to the day we all congregated from far flung parts of the country. We went and paid our respectws. Then I marched them across central London (and without a map) up to Euston Road. We had fun and planned to do further stuff when I had researched it.
I haven't posted my 'findings' on that area here yet as I don't want to spoil America. If you do go by my blog beware; I have a lot of mutterings about the bizarre continuity oddities about multiple locations on rooftops. How to give someone like me a headache (but what fun to work it all out!)
Things will have to wait until May to be posted in full, and then I can say my piece and post my diagrams. I have actually got to do more work on that area as a whole (these telly people really like to get their value for money out of a location don't they). What I can provide at this early stage, however, is something more central and Series One based however.
This weekend, while I was taking a group of our kids to London for a day out, I got an hour and a half to sniff around in a very familiar place in Piccadilly Circus. Photos were taken, comparisons made and some personal memories of the place over the years are shared.
Here is the link to my DW account so you can have a look if you are interested.