Creative backgrounds

Last week I arrived at a West London location to shoot an interview/masterclass with renowned percussionist Rob Farrer for BBC's Get Playing and found the room the producer booked was barely big enough to fit a drumstick in, let alone two orchestral timpani and a camera.

After snooping around the facility I came across a locked percussion warehouse. Turned out to be a filmmakers dream backdrop. Huge 80" gongs, walls of ancient looking Asian gongs and stacks of weird and wonderful looking percussion instruments. After sweet talking the owners for permissions we relocated shoot to new space.

Downside was we kept getting interrupted by staff wheeling in and out instruments for customers and fork lift truck drivers manoeuvring around in the nearby depot. Upside was we got a fantastic backdrop that client was ecstatic about.