A Chinook?!? Man...that´s one big bird. Nice!Definitely. There was another helicopter, with a camera fitted on the front, filming it. The Chinook was flying in close to the Skyfall Lodge building, and then flying off again. Filmed it at least 10 times while I was there.
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 04:45 PM
Apologies. Looked at the photos and it's not a Chinook. Similar shape, but only one horizontal rotor blade on top. Doors on the side where people could jump out of though. Resembles this helicopter, but slightly longer in body: http://www.centennia...pter/DI27G1.jpgA Chinook?!? Man...that´s one big bird. Nice!
Definitely. There was another helicopter, with a camera fitted on the front, filming it. The Chinook was flying in close to the Skyfall Lodge building, and then flying off again. Filmed it at least 10 times while I was there.
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 05:04 PM
Maybe a Merlin?
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 05:15 PM
That's much more like it. Well played, Major.Maybe a Merlin?
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Damn. Got really excited with it being a Chinook, it´s not everyday you see one in a film.
And yes, a Merlin would fit the description. Still cool.
And yes, a Merlin would fit the description. Still cool.
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http://www.grayshott...-poo/#post-2105
Hankley Common Skyfall set - Shooting schedule
For anybody who is interested in the filming on Hankley Common
“We’ve had a letter from the film company apologising in advance for small arms fire, explosions and low flying
helicopters. Can’t have that going on at an army range and drop zone!
Rehearsals start 10/3, filming 13/3 to 19/3, 22/3 to 25/3 and overnight to 5am on 30/3.”
There will be marshalls present to make sure that the public do not interfere with filming but Bridleway 108 to
the west of the DZ should be open and the ridge to the east of the DZ is also out of the area covered by planning
permission for filming. We have not been told that the central car park will be closed. The Pitch Place car park is
close to a couple of good viewing points as well.
Hankley Common Skyfall set - Shooting schedule
For anybody who is interested in the filming on Hankley Common
“We’ve had a letter from the film company apologising in advance for small arms fire, explosions and low flying
helicopters. Can’t have that going on at an army range and drop zone!
Rehearsals start 10/3, filming 13/3 to 19/3, 22/3 to 25/3 and overnight to 5am on 30/3.”
There will be marshalls present to make sure that the public do not interfere with filming but Bridleway 108 to
the west of the DZ should be open and the ridge to the east of the DZ is also out of the area covered by planning
permission for filming. We have not been told that the central car park will be closed. The Pitch Place car park is
close to a couple of good viewing points as well.
Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 10 March 2012 - 05:55 PM.
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 10:51 PM
There's footage of the scene over in the "Skyfall Filming Discussion" thread. That's definitely a Merlin, but there's another mystery. The fuselage displays an inverted red triangle insignia that I've never seen. Does anyone know if this is an actual insignia, perhaps of an RAF squadron, or has this been designed just for the film?
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 10:56 PM
I was going to mention that. I assume it's a logo for the film - orange circle with an inverted black triangle. Perhaps Silva's company/organisation? I've got clearer photos of it, which I'll try to get online.
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 11:02 PM
Practice filming on the set of Skyfall; the new James Bond film. Courtesy of The Foraging Photographer.
For more info see the blog at http://theforagingph....wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6pIjP73UE
For more info see the blog at http://theforagingph....wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6pIjP73UE
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 11:25 PM
Practice filming on the set of Skyfall; the new James Bond film.Courtesy of The Foraging Photographer.
Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 10 March 2012 - 11:33 PM.
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 11:37 PM
I originally read that as "Patrice filming"' and wondered how you'd spotted Ola Rapace!
Great videos. Much better than what I've got (plus not in slow motion). I'd heard the gunfire, but was on the opposite side of the helicopter so assumed it was just MoD training shots.
Great videos. Much better than what I've got (plus not in slow motion). I'd heard the gunfire, but was on the opposite side of the helicopter so assumed it was just MoD training shots.
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Posted 10 March 2012 - 11:54 PM
I originally read that as "Patrice filming"' and wondered how you'd spotted Ola Rapace!
Great videos. Much better than what I've got (plus not in slow motion). I'd heard the gunfire, but was on the opposite side of the helicopter so assumed it was just MoD training shots.
Very exciting videos indeed! As you have seen it live, what do you think about the set for the finale? Have you spotted a graveyard? The work is almost completed, I believe, since the shooting is planned to begin on March 13th.
On a side note, I'm sorry for the fans of the crane but it was removed - and the speculation is over thankfully!
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I was extremely impressed by the manor house. The public are no longer able to get too close to it, but from the distance I was at, it looked spectacularly genuine. In fact, the people I was with couldn't get over the fact that it wasn't real and kept talking about how impressive it was that they'd recreated something so closely and meticulously. This was added to the fact that a large truck full of real heather plants was being delivered to the gate post on top of the hill. The finishing touches were being added to that; one worker was touching up the fake brickwork, and another was painting a life size model stag.Very exciting videos indeed! As you have seen it live, what do you think about the set for the finale? Have you spotted a graveyard? The work is almost completed, I believe, since the shooting is planned to begin on March 13th.
I originally read that as "Patrice filming"' and wondered how you'd spotted Ola Rapace!
Great videos. Much better than what I've got (plus not in slow motion). I'd heard the gunfire, but was on the opposite side of the helicopter so assumed it was just MoD training shots.
On a side note, I'm sorry for the fans of the crane but it was removed - and the speculation is over thankfully!
As for the chapel, it's not finished yet. (There was even some sort of crane still in place...) There were also about 20 workers on the scaffolding, still completing the roof and fixing a cross to it. I'm sure they'll be done in a couple of days though. No sign of any graveyard. There are three buildings: the manor house (Skyfall Lodge), an outhouse about 20 metres away, plus the chapel further away. Amazing to think that by this time next week, it will probably all be gone!
The helicopters were flying around for an hour while I was there, plus probably at least a couple more afterwards, from what I was told. It was probably just daytime rehearsals today (although signs were up saying filming was in progress), but proper shooting will definitely be under way by Tuesday.
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Updates and pictures of today's practice filming of Skyfall at Hankley Common.
http://theforagingph...nd-helicopters/
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Alright then, on to the main event. We walked at Hankley today and were bemused to find the car park absolutely packed. Managed to find a space on the fringes, and wandered off huffing and puffing about all the people who were clearly just coming because of the filming (like we’re not…). There were security guys stationed all along the ridges, keeping the clamouring public back from the action – the whole of Surrey seemed to have begged or borrowed dogs to walk casually around the common. There was a security zone around the site, as there were a couple of helicopters being flown around the place so they couldn’t let anyone very near. The security guy we talked to seemed very forthcoming; today is just practice filming, they might not film at all if the angles turn out to be wrong, and Daniel Craig won’t be there at all – only his double driving the aston martin. No point in me staking out the set with half the heath stuck on my head as camouflage and a long range lens, then, in the hope of that exclusive shot of Daniel in his itty bitty trunks. Shame.
None of the other security guys were nearly as forthcoming, but the rumours were flying around the heath nonetheless; spreading from veteran dogwalker to dogwalker like particularly virulent wildfire. The budget for the Hankley shoot was £5 million, no; £7 million. They’re blowing it all up on Monday, or Tuesday. Or next week. They’re blowing it up at dawn. They’re blowing it up at night. What seems to be agreed upon is that the Bond’s Aston Martin is going to enter the site through the gates on the ridge, and then be involved in some skirmish at the lodge, and then Bond (despite him not currently being in the country) will flee to the chapel. From events today I reckon it’s safe to say that this will involve a big ol’ helicopter, discharging a lot of blokes with guns. Said helicopter will fly around the lodge a lot, shining a big searchlight on it and firing at stuff, before blowing it up. That’ll probably occur at sunset or dark.
It was all rather exciting, I must say; we wandered over to the chapel, which is coming on well but nowhere near finished. The lodge is standing proud without scaffolding now, but the roof isn’t quite completed from the south side. We saw the helicopter early on and were told it would be taking off again, so we ended up, after a leisurely walk, hanging around on the hill with a handful of other people (armed with their smartphones pointed at the action), wondering if anything was going to happen. There was a merlin helicopter sitting impressively on site (you might wonder how I knew this; I can direct you to one of my early posts here, where I was geeky enought to look up the helicopter I’d seen). Eventually it started up and rose into the air, much to the excitement of us all watching. Bit of an anticlimax when it just hovered there for a few minutes, before dropping gracefully back to earth. Thankfully it did a bit more than that the next time, with lots of low flying round the lodge set, at times in tandem with the very sleek and impressive camera helicopter. The first time the merlin went up, there were lots of blokes underneath with guns, so I’m guessing that the actual scene will involve something similar to this.
I took a few videos which I’ve put on youtube; here is the helicopter after it’s initially taken off, with the ‘gunmen’ underneath. Here is some great footage of the helicopter flying around the lodge, with some inadvertent commentary from us. Here it’s coming into land again, and looking rather impressive with the ‘gunmen’ on display inside. Here is some footage of them firing machine guns from inside the helicopter. Finally, here is a video of both the filmed and the filming helicopters buzzing around each other and the set. The filming helicopter is a bit gorgeous, I must say; a sleek waspy thing with a great big ball of a camera fixed below its nose. There’s something just inherently dramatic about the way they wheel and dive around the sky.
By the end, the light was poor, the air was thick with dust and the children and dog were vociferous with hunger and boredom. Despite my fear that as soon as we were out of camera range, the whole set would explode in exciting and photogenic pyrotechnics, we left them all to it. Hopefully I’ll be able to bring you some more pictures over the coming days.
Thank you very much @Vauxhall and @theforagingphotographer for your detailed reports!
http://theforagingph...nd-helicopters/
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Alright then, on to the main event. We walked at Hankley today and were bemused to find the car park absolutely packed. Managed to find a space on the fringes, and wandered off huffing and puffing about all the people who were clearly just coming because of the filming (like we’re not…). There were security guys stationed all along the ridges, keeping the clamouring public back from the action – the whole of Surrey seemed to have begged or borrowed dogs to walk casually around the common. There was a security zone around the site, as there were a couple of helicopters being flown around the place so they couldn’t let anyone very near. The security guy we talked to seemed very forthcoming; today is just practice filming, they might not film at all if the angles turn out to be wrong, and Daniel Craig won’t be there at all – only his double driving the aston martin. No point in me staking out the set with half the heath stuck on my head as camouflage and a long range lens, then, in the hope of that exclusive shot of Daniel in his itty bitty trunks. Shame.
None of the other security guys were nearly as forthcoming, but the rumours were flying around the heath nonetheless; spreading from veteran dogwalker to dogwalker like particularly virulent wildfire. The budget for the Hankley shoot was £5 million, no; £7 million. They’re blowing it all up on Monday, or Tuesday. Or next week. They’re blowing it up at dawn. They’re blowing it up at night. What seems to be agreed upon is that the Bond’s Aston Martin is going to enter the site through the gates on the ridge, and then be involved in some skirmish at the lodge, and then Bond (despite him not currently being in the country) will flee to the chapel. From events today I reckon it’s safe to say that this will involve a big ol’ helicopter, discharging a lot of blokes with guns. Said helicopter will fly around the lodge a lot, shining a big searchlight on it and firing at stuff, before blowing it up. That’ll probably occur at sunset or dark.
It was all rather exciting, I must say; we wandered over to the chapel, which is coming on well but nowhere near finished. The lodge is standing proud without scaffolding now, but the roof isn’t quite completed from the south side. We saw the helicopter early on and were told it would be taking off again, so we ended up, after a leisurely walk, hanging around on the hill with a handful of other people (armed with their smartphones pointed at the action), wondering if anything was going to happen. There was a merlin helicopter sitting impressively on site (you might wonder how I knew this; I can direct you to one of my early posts here, where I was geeky enought to look up the helicopter I’d seen). Eventually it started up and rose into the air, much to the excitement of us all watching. Bit of an anticlimax when it just hovered there for a few minutes, before dropping gracefully back to earth. Thankfully it did a bit more than that the next time, with lots of low flying round the lodge set, at times in tandem with the very sleek and impressive camera helicopter. The first time the merlin went up, there were lots of blokes underneath with guns, so I’m guessing that the actual scene will involve something similar to this.
I took a few videos which I’ve put on youtube; here is the helicopter after it’s initially taken off, with the ‘gunmen’ underneath. Here is some great footage of the helicopter flying around the lodge, with some inadvertent commentary from us. Here it’s coming into land again, and looking rather impressive with the ‘gunmen’ on display inside. Here is some footage of them firing machine guns from inside the helicopter. Finally, here is a video of both the filmed and the filming helicopters buzzing around each other and the set. The filming helicopter is a bit gorgeous, I must say; a sleek waspy thing with a great big ball of a camera fixed below its nose. There’s something just inherently dramatic about the way they wheel and dive around the sky.
By the end, the light was poor, the air was thick with dust and the children and dog were vociferous with hunger and boredom. Despite my fear that as soon as we were out of camera range, the whole set would explode in exciting and photogenic pyrotechnics, we left them all to it. Hopefully I’ll be able to bring you some more pictures over the coming days.
Thank you very much @Vauxhall and @theforagingphotographer for your detailed reports!
Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 11 March 2012 - 01:01 AM.
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It's absolutely fantastic, isn't it. I know it's just a house, but it's the most impressive Bond set I've seen for years.
It seems a shame to blow it up, really.
It seems a shame to blow it up, really.
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Outstanding work, gents. Thank you.
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 01:19 AM
Very interesting stuff. I can't wait to see how they handle the explosion.
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 02:23 AM
One more report from the Skyfall film set at Hankley Common. Special thanks to Tim Page for the pictures.
http://www.theestabl...-surrey-we.html
http://www.theestabl...-surrey-we.html
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 02:40 AM
Excellent coverage, guys. Comprehensively done. Should be a cracking sequence.
They've done a great job building these sets. But if it was good enough for Ken Adam's work to be blown sky high it's good enough for this!
They've done a great job building these sets. But if it was good enough for Ken Adam's work to be blown sky high it's good enough for this!
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Is just me or there are hostages underneath the helicopter??
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Is just me or there are hostages underneath the helicopter??
They are rehearsing the copter moves and how to film it from a camera copter. Plus, gun fire etc.
They are not rehearsing with actors or extra etc.
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Wow; exciting stuff!
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Two new pictures of the Skyfall film set at Hankley Common : the almost completed Manor House and the Chapel with holes in the roof.
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Comment from the latest blog post:
James Page strikes again.
M on March 11, 2012 at 9:53 am said:
Hi – please could you drop us an email to [email protected] – love the Skyfall coverage!
James Page strikes again.
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I assume it will be a polite request to apply an MI6 watermark to all those photos. Or maybe not.Comment from the latest blog post:
M on March 11, 2012 at 9:53 am said:
Hi – please could you drop us an email to [email protected] – love the Skyfall coverage!
James Page strikes again.
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More pics of the Skyfall film set at Hankley Common .
http://usinuk.co.uk/blog/archives/6897
http://usinuk.co.uk/blog/archives/6897
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He is a blonde..
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 05:49 PM
Oh... my god!