On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 19:59:22 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Smyth"
wrote:

tim..... wrote:

Apologies to those of you who aren't 6 weeks behind with this :-)

But the opening 10 minute scenes for this was shot in an, obviously
busy, Waterloo station.

Just how do they find the time to do this?

Do they film in the middle of the day and use the normal punters as
"extras" hoping not to make anybody miss their train, or the middle
of the night and hire in two thousand people to act as "commuters".

We're used to stations being used for a short clip with little
outside cast, but this must have been some undertaking, half a dozen
separate scenes cut done to 10 minutes of final output has got to
take 8-12 hours of filming time.

Anyone have any scoop on this?

tim

Could well be a combination of both, film during the day for long range
shots, then come back at night with 50 odd extras which would be
sufficient to make the station look busy in close ups.

Peter Smyth

If you look closely at the theatre scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 39
steps, most of the audience are cardboard cut-outs.

And these days you can use CGI to generate a large crowd from a small
number.