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INDEXLONDON LOCATION NEEDED - Boardroom and corporate bathroom
5 years, 5 months ago - Laurie Waplington
Need boardroom and corporate bathroom location (must both be in same building) for short film about environmentalism and greenwashing.
We aim to raise awareness about the practice of corporate greenwashing. This is the act of making small symbolic guestures of environmentalism that do more to win eco-conscious customers over than actually make a difference. The prime and titular example of this being McDonald's switch to paper straws; a callous attempt to distract from their ongoing mass deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
Film is being made in collaboration with Film Roundhouse and will be screened at the Last Word Festival.
Shoot date ideally 28 or 29 March but this is open to negotiation.
Incredibly limited budget means we will be unlikely to be able to pay for use of location. Special thanks and credit will be included at end of film.
All visible logos and other details that could give away location will be covered or changed to that of fictional multinational fashion company (using VFX).
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5 years, 5 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Serviced office companies like Regus? You don't mention your city, so it's hard to be more helpful!
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5 years, 5 months ago - Laurie Waplington
It's London (in the title)
Unfortunately, any paid locations will instantly break the budget, so having to get creative
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5 years, 5 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Ha sorry missed that :-$
Hmmm - think you're going to have to find someone who already rents an office and toilet and who'll let you use it for free in that case :(
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5 years, 4 months ago - George Brian Glennon
A real corporate boardroom in the city, for instance is about 10K per day plus all safety and insurance. On my last project we we’re able to get one for about 1.5K per day, and it was far from the look I really wanted. Even if you knew someone, the insurance and safety for liability would still have to be covered for shooting in any legitimate corporate space. That’s the reality.
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5 years, 4 months ago - Richard Anthony Dunford
If you have no budget your best bet could be to try and appeal to a company that shares your ethos and is big on promoting enviromentalism and see if they'd let you borrow their boardroom for a day. Might have to do a fair bit of research but with things like this I've found if you contact about 10-20 you might get a couple of replies and one might then help you out.
Or if you can find some money to pay for a location you might be able to get a meeting room in a community hall and dress it up to resemble a boardroom.
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5 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Ironically there are hundreds of empty boardrooms across the city right now :'-(
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