Lovely place in the Californian countryside where I have spent many hours with friends and joining in local activities. We had been hoping to film there for "Story Ark" but it turns out the property we were hoping to use has now become unavailable.
http://www.sanjuanbautistaca.com/
The Plaza Hotel is in the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park and if you enter through the saloon, you'll find a hallway leading down below street level. At the end is a wonderful private cinema, one of the first in California: That's where we were hoping to film. Sadly, we've been told this is because of the instability of the ground beneath the old property where the basement cinema is situated.
Still planning to include the old private cinema in the plot but we'll either have to recreate it as a set or find another one in an historic property somewhere else.
Hoping maybe the actor taking the role (of the character who was going to use that room) may have some ideas! He used to live in San Juan Bautista and returns there every so often. He knows the private cinema involved so hopefully he remembers it well enough for us to create some computer generated sets or can get together with our Arts department to build a set.
Otherwise, in that case, it may be back to the drawing board (so to speak) and creating it completely fresh: Always a bit disappointing when you had something particular in mind that you wanted to make happen! 0:(
Ellen 0:)
Ellen F. Walker
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