There's not a whole lot of info in this report, but I just love the idea of someone out to have an adventure finding a set... Getting as close as the trailers and thinking laterally enough to remember... well, there's a forest right... so let's take pictures of the trees. While I'm sure some of these type of trees may very well end up in the final movie, we have heard from a previous set report, that they built an entirely false forest in a soundstage, and for those that read Moriarty's Script Report you know why. But neverthless, I like this report, and hope you share my fondness for it. Here's DeadLock...
Hey Harry!
Glad to know that you liked my report on Ollie Reed (well I presume you liked it) but here's the real meat.
Cast your mind back about a month to the New York Times article you ran about Tim Burton filming Sleepy Hollow in the UK. The day I read that article the UK tabloids had been going wild about Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci being sighted out together in London, I was thinking, well they are filming together there.....
What I didn't realise until reading the article was that the location work was being done just a score of miles away from my humble abode. I decided to check things out at the soonest opportunity, it's not everyday someone like Burton's on your doorstep (well maybe Yours).
That opportunity decide to play cat-and-mouse with me until this weekend, when we drove down to Hambleden. On the way we passed a number of yellow signs pointing our way and then off onto the Estate mentioned in the article. Not being able to get onto the estate, but being within about 2 or 3 miles of the set I took the first 3 of the supplied photos. These should give you a pretty good idea of the locations being used (minus the straw bales). The whole area is damn pretty but much of a muchness. We decided to follow the back roads which skirted around where we thought the set was and see if we could see anything else. The fourth shot was taken in the local woods, if 'Sleepy Hollow' has any woodland shots then they should be in locations like this - if they are filmed in the area.
The real pay dirt was hit on the way back, just as we turned to head back to the main road we passed a field full of caravans, shot 5. I don't know about you but "Movie Makers" seems to be a fairly large clue. We were also back with those yellow signs we'd seen earlier, and as we went against their flow we also saw signs for 'location' and 'unit'. Put it this way i'd be surprised if two projects were filming in this area this close together.
Well that the end of my story, hope you enjoyed it, all that's left is to say good-bye and leave you with the photos.
My name DeadLocK, goodnight.
Image 1 to Image 3: Shots of the Hambleden Valley
Image 4: Woods local to the set
Image 5: The set caravans - big clue.
