Wilton works shoot/hillside reccy

Wilton works and the wind turbines out to sea at Redcar.

Following day one’s test shots for lifetime we took a drive up to Lackenby  to take shots from the footbridge spanning the A174 of the Wilton chemical works for the final composite shot reveal.
Following the rain earlier in the day which prevented us from placing lights outside, the day had really brightened up.

The bridge has a cage all the way round but the camera on full zoom easily shot through the mesh keeping it out of shot.
Unfortunately it was too early for shots of them illuminated and there was too much haze to get good daytime shots. Due to this we decided to carry on up the hills following the path that the bridge connects Lackenby to.

The view over the chemical works and out to sea from the hill side is fantastic but the actual shot needs to be from a much lower angle, more as when approaching Wilton from on the road, a lower location than the bridge ideally.

We also looked to performing some test shots for the ‘flying cars’ part of the composite, but there was simply not enough traffic needed to make it effective.

The guys take a breather walking up the hillside.

As consolation about three quarters of the way up the slippy muddy hill side we found the remains of brick and concrete constructions from the old mine workings, including a large tunnel entrance running directly into the side of the hill.
Whilst it automatically suggested itself as a shot location, you would be left with one hell of a lugg to get production equipment up to the site (ripe for a horror though!).