Location – Behind the camera

Location images showing team at work and play.  All locations here are Merthyr Mawr which has a very rich ecosystem and huge variety of landscapes all in miniature.  Humphry likes it because everything looks vast but is on a tiny scale – unlike, say, the Scottish HIghlands which have huge landscapes.  In Merthyr Mawr, one only has to walk 100 yards to go from sand dune to forest to seascape, to ruined castle (all within short walk of car park).  We shot first during school holidays which was great for sound as we felt completely alone.  However, when we came back for pickups of the chase sequence, school was back and the sound of what seemed like hundreds of children in a swimming pool (actually a few kids playing on the dunes) threatened to ruin the shoot.

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