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• Pre Production - The Good Guy LOCATIONS

  2011-06-25 6:59AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
  

   It's interesting how when you actually start getting the things that you need to tell your story together how it all unfolds, sometimes for the worse sometimes for the better. 
  
  I had a couple of locations that I had passed by that I wondered what if I put it into the movie.  One of them was always So Uk Estates in the Cheung Sha Wan district. It was one of the last old looking estates that still had character behind it, they had already started tearing it down part of it, so I knew this would be the best time to get it. 
  

  
  
  
  
  I'd see a location and want to put it in.
  
  
  
  
  
  I'd start to picture the movie in my mind with these great locations, but then actually getting these locations was another story.  One night we went out to do some test shoots to see how the lighting would look with the handheld battery operated lights we had and the already existing lights the estates had on.  While we were doing so, a security guard approached us and told us we needed to have a permit to shoot here.  The next day, we prepared a permission letter to shoot there, I even asked if I could speak with the person in charge of that, they told me they were away and that I should drop off this letter and wait for him to call back.  This person finally did and they didn't want us to shoot in their estates.  I had to start planning for other options.
  
  
  Another street near the Cheung Sha Wan Wet Market I had planned to use, but in the end we didn't.
  

  
  
  

  My first year in Hong Kong, I worked as an English Drama teacher at a secondary school in Tai Wai. After class, I would walk down to catch the mini bus and it was tea-time so I was always hungry.
  
  I usually had some noodles and meat and some cold milk tea for a late lunch or snack.  I had always considered wanting to use the restaurant as a location, but never had a story that I could imagine it there.  It was when I needed an opening for TGG (The Good Guy) that I remembered that restaurant I used to eat a
  
  

  
  
  

    When I used to eat there, I also would share conversations with the owner, we shared the same name "Peter" so that was always kind of special thing I felt.  He was very interested in hearing about how I was doing in Hong Kong and we would share different culture concepts about China about USA about things in general.  I didn't know that he would allow us to shoot there, well least not without a heavy price to pay, but in the end, he was very supportive and helpful, it proved to me probably for the first time, if you can imagine it and work hard, anything is possible.  We had our location for our opening of TGG. I was stoaked!
  
    If you are ever in the neighborhood stop in and say hi to Mr. Peter!  From the Tai Wai Train Station take Mini Bus 803K and before it goes up the hill, you'll see the restaurant.
  

  
  
  

  The Fu Kwai Restaurant in Tai Wai during the day