Pre-Production

• During the development of the project the directors and producers met with some of the world’s best Parkour practitioners.
• The directors were given exclusive training in gym sections to help them better understand Parkour.

The Shoot

• The film was shot at White Row car park, near Liverpool Street, City of London.
• The shoot was in three days - a very short timeframe for an action-packed short film.
• The entrance to the car park is 7 meters into London’s Congestion Charge zone! A real nightmare for the Production team.
• The production took over three entire levels of the car park. These levels were provided completely empty and so had to be filled with cars.
• The production sourced over 50 cars to be used in shot. Every car that is in the final film was sourced by the production (apart from the title sequence).
• There were around 60 members of cast & crew on-set.
• There were three cameras on set – two Arri SR3s (standard professional Super 16mm cameras) and an Aton Minima. The Minima is a Super 16mm camera that is far smaller and lighter than the normal cameras.

Post Production

• Originally a tape-to-tape grade had been planed but, after seeing the raw footage, Framestore CFC offered a Spirit film grade. Normally these tools are only open to large commercials.
• The film was edited in 4 days.
• As the film was shot without sound, all sounds and noises had to be created and added in post-production. This was achieved by award-winning sound company Noise London. The entire sound process took nearly two weeks.
• After seeing the rough edit, music composers Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills offered their service for the fee of £1. The pair normally only work on large scale feature films and are signed to Air Edel Records.

Budget

• The commercial value of the goods and services that were used on the production is over £250,000! This is how much it would have cost to make without the deals and support raised.
• The cash budget for ‘Space Chase’ was £10,000 (4% of the commercial value of the goods and services provided!).