Digital News - Filming day 2 [Escape Hub]

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It has been a fantastic day filming today! We were able to choose our own room that we wanted to film in and we had control of pretty much anything so the possibilities were endless. As you can see from this picture the location already looks amazing, in the rooms they also allowed us to play around the LED lighting where we could make the room any colour we wanted. Victoria was our amazing presenter who did a fantastic job for us and we enjoyed filming with her. Within this shoot we didn't have many issues which was actually amazing, we shot the entire sequence within 1 hour. There was only a few things to shoot but thanks to the brilliant location and a prepared presenter we had no issues and everything went very smoothly.

The entire concept of the location was to escape the room within 60 minutes which we found very interesting and it made a great studio location. Since our entire project is about discovering Kent's hidden location this was a great find. There was around 8 rooms all together but we decided to choose the most crazy and bonkers room to make sure our viewers are interested and we reach all of our viewers from the ages 16-45. Amber and Callum were both focusing on camera work while me and Joni did sound and lighting as well as directing and making sure Victoria remembers her lines.


While we were filming we wanted to literally get locked into the room and try to escape but we did not want to hold up any bookings the company had. Getting the location was also fairly easy as the owner was so nice to us and very happy for us to film, many thanks to Alex. We thought it would be difficult to film in this room due to the lighting being so different but it was actually fairly simple. Since we had the LED lights to act and the fillers and mains the lighting worked out great, we also used the purple tint to our advantage and made it more different. It's great to make these contacts and keep them in the loop as we never know when we might need them, Alex was also very happy to participate as this will get A LOT of younger people coming to the escape hub. I didn't even know it existed until now and i want to go and book a place!







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