Location / Prop advice needed

Newcomers1

Hi all,

Have an unusual request, which my good friend Google can't help me with.

I've been asked by a good friend to try help him recreate The Beatles crossing Abbey Road with himself and his three brothers. I'm well up to speed on the plans for shooting it, I'm just having difficulty with the setup. Would anybody know off hand where there's a zebra crossing which would be somewhere quite leafy in the Dublin surrounds? Obviously can't be one in the city centre as would need it to be quiet enough. I've put a call into the council to see also. Have 'driven' around using google maps also but to no avail.

However, if this is not a runner, anyone know where they do props for photography or parties? I was thinking I could rent one if it was possible, or would it even be possible to make it myself?

Appreciate anything that you might be able to add!

Thanks
NC1

Corkbah

is there anything restricting the "recreation" of Abbey Road from happening on .... Abbey Road,

Cheap Flight to the UK, Taxi from Airport .... turn up at Abbey Road ...click click ... goto pub, have a lunch, wander around the town at other beatles sites .... taxi back to airport and fly back to Ireland.

approx cost €150 each

Alternatively search around google maps for parks... ie. leafy background.... in Dublin try ballymun, ballyfermot, crumlin areas.

Newcomers1

Corkbah wrote: »

is there anything restricting the "recreation" of Abbey Road from happening on .... Abbey Road,

Cheap Flight to the UK, Taxi from Airport .... turn up at Abbey Road ...click click ... goto pub, have a lunch, wander around the town at other beatles sites .... taxi back to airport and fly back to Ireland.

approx cost €150 each

Alternatively search around google maps for parks... ie. leafy background.... in Dublin try ballymun, ballyfermot, crumlin areas.

Maybe he would like to send me off for a weekend and then I'll photoshop them in! Unfortunatley money would be the constraint to us all heading off. Going to be spending a bit on the printing - 6x3 on foamcore mount.

Will check out the places you mentioned, had been searching Donnybrook Ranalgh type places but to no avail.

crashplan

There used to be 1 or 2 Zebra crossings on Griffith Ave but not sure if they have been replaced by traffic lights. Maybe pick the leafy road then photoshop in the zebra crossing?

ThOnda

For the first, why to recreate, when you can just get inspired?
It was in the papers last year, that locals are so pissed off by tourists, who are blocking the street, that they have to call policemen to control the traffic (on the zebra), so they can at least get to work on time.
Not to mention that the original zebra was originally couple of yards away and the recent one is in different place.
On the topic of location scouting, get on a bike early on Sunday morning and cycle through south Dublin. Areas south from Royal Canal (if the Royal Canal is the one on the south from Liffey - forgot my ignorance) have extremely nice and wide streets, with lots of trees and also zebras. And being there early (6-8 am) should allow you to be there uninterrupted by any traffic.