11/05/11……Dodgy lorries, girls escaping through pub windows; its all happening in Sydenham!
THERE’S great excitement in the village of Sydenham near Thame, this week as filming for the popular TV programme, Midsomer Murders, begins for episode six of the fourteenth series!
Filming began yesterday (10/05) inside St Mary’s church in the village, and today the production company, Bentley will be filming until 7pm at the front of the church by the Crown pub which becomes ‘The Stag’ in the episode. The opening scene features a lorry being driven through the village, observed by the series’ two heroes, who then discuss a suspicious flat tyre on the vehicle before heading off at a run!
On Monday, they’ll be filming night-time scenes based mainly around the Crown, beginning with a brief scene of a girl arriving at the pub on a bicycle, and then moving inside once more. At about 10pm, they’ll be back outside to film three segments with the village scene lit by a cherry picker and a lighting crane that will double as a moon! The first scene will involve a girl escaping from a window of the pub, the second a man walking up the middle of the street and a third involves a police car driving through the village. The day’s shooting should all be over by 12.30am.
To finish the day’s work, the crew will move further up the street to film in a cottage at the endof Sewell’s Lane, working there until 02.30am.
On Wednesday, May 25, the crew will start the day in Pyrton but hope to be back at St Mary’s by lunch time, to film two scenes inside the church. At around 3.30pm they hope to move back outside to fim at the front of the Old School Room.
The crew will be back in Sydenam at the Crown again on Thursday (26/05. More about the plans for that day’s filming to come.
PHOTO: Flash back to the last time The Crown at Sydenham saw a film crew, when Boris Johnson, who was then the local MP, officially opened the pub in June, 2008, when it was bought by a group of villages to run as an village enterprise.
