00:01This is the television service of the Ontario Educational Communications Authority.
00:09Hi, my name is Andrea Martin, and I'm here to help you understand how a film like Tom Gratton's War
00:15was made.
00:16I don't normally dress like this, but Tom Gratton's War was set in 1915,
00:21so to help you get in the mood of the film, I decided to put myself in a dress and
00:25setting of the same period.
00:26Here's a question about setting. Why did the producers, they're the people who run the show,
00:32decide to film the story in the Moors in Yorkshire and Northern England,
00:37instead of, say, here, or here, or here?
00:46What made them choose the Moors? Well, I can think of five reasons.
00:51First, because they're interesting to look at.
00:58That sounds simple, but it's important.
01:02I mean, if you shot a whole film in this parking lot, it would get pretty boring.
01:08You could still use long shots and low shots, but it would still be the same old parking lot.
01:14Reason two for setting Tom Gratton's War in the Moors.
01:18The Moors have places where adventures can happen.
01:22They've got caves and crannies to hide in, cliffs to climb,
01:27old ruins where all kinds of terrible things could be going on,
01:31and great hills and rocks for chases.
01:34Every adventure story has a chase in it somewhere.
01:36And the Moors are full of danger.
01:39There's boulders that could fall on a person,
01:43long, steep paths to climb, abandoned buildings to explore.
01:47And that's really important, because you've got to have places for your adventures.
01:52You wouldn't get very many adventures if you set your story around here.
01:56Reason three.
02:00The mood of the Moors is mysterious.
02:04If you're scared, the Moors make you even more scared,
02:08with their spooky shadows and rocks that look like faces,
02:12and the wind whistling across the bare hills,
02:15and the nearest houses so far away you can't even see them,
02:19and no chance of help if you get in trouble.
02:22As Stan said, they're a bad place to spend the night.
02:26You could try to create a mysterious mood here, for example,
02:30but all you'd get is a lot of close-ups of cars.
02:32And that's not very frightening.
02:34Unless you're a caterpillar.
02:36Reason four.
02:39To keep the hero confused.
02:42Remember where Tom comes from?
02:44London, right.
02:46A big city.
02:47Well, if you take a city kid and stick him a long way out
02:50in some distant, unfamiliar countryside,
02:53there's a lot he's not going to understand.
02:55So, you can get him lost, and scare him,
02:58and get him into situations he doesn't know how to handle.
03:00And you can get some laughs out of it, too.
03:03Well, just as if you brought someone from the country
03:06to this parking lot,
03:07it might take him an hour or so to figure out how to get out of it.
03:11How many reasons is that?
03:18Four.
03:19We need one more.
03:21Oh, how could I forget that?
03:23This is really important when you're making a film.
03:27The producers set it in the moors to cut costs.
03:30To make it cheaply.
03:32Do you know how many people it takes to make a film?
03:35Well, take a look around me here.
03:37We have a director, production assistant, unit manager,
03:42cameraman, sound man, lighting people, costumes, makeup.
03:47Just think about taking all these people on location.
03:50Plus actors, props people, drivers, and so many more.
03:55Then, you have to pay them, put them up in a hotel, and feed them.
04:01Well, as you can see, making films is expensive.
04:05And unless you have a lot of money, which most filmmakers don't have,
04:08it's important to choose a location with many views.
04:12So you'll have good places to use, interesting scenery,
04:16good angles for the camera, and so on.
04:18This is something to watch for as the series continues.
04:21Just see how many different uses the producers found in their location in the moors.
04:28Okay, okay, we're going.
04:30One more question, though.
04:32If you were going to make an adventure film, where would you set it?
