Location and production design

When I first had the idea to redirect this scene I thought about filming it in the Studios and try my best to make it look like a modern, minimalistic hotel (which I ended up doing). 

Especially the staircase scene, watching it I could definitely see it filmed there, of course it wasn't as high as they used in the show but I thought it could be fitting. I was really confident with this idea up until I noticed how dark it is there and tried to film a person running down it.  Thank God and Jo for getting the other staircase that had natural light in it and not just pretty bad lamps.

But the thing I struggled the most with was finding a place to film the meeting as I was advised to find a place with a more grand decor. In a way it really scared me because if I could get the room to film in how was I supposed to get all the kit/cast and crew to the place if I don't drive and have nobody to get all of it there. Not really sure if it's lucky but part of me was glad I wasn't able to get a room to film in. Although it probably would have been better for the scene if it was filmed in a place like Oakwood House or Bradbourne House.

In the end, it may have not been perfect but I am happy of how my set turned out, I think I did the best in the situation I found myself in at that moment. Instead of going for grand decor I ended up with a minimalistic hotel look. For this shoot I needed a fake gun, a thick law book and something that looked like weed. Because I needed the gun for literally few seconds I wasn't really planing on spending more than 5paunds, thankfully I found it in Paundland, although I had to paint it black (if it's illegal pretend that you didn't just read that), for a book I went to the biggest library in Maidstone and found something that looked simmilar to the one they used in the show, but probably my biggest headache when it came to props was the fake weed part. It took me a while to think of what I could use to replace the "weed" and after some good thinking I remembered that I had lots of herbal tea, which is what I ended up using, it looked real (at least to someone that has never seen how it looks in real life) and smelled of pepermint.