Managed to get my hands on an awesome book, ideal for what I want and pretty informative too.
It's called "Sheffield - Past & Present" by Geoffrey Howse, and is full of old pictures from in and around the city itself. What's most intruging though, is how it also has modern day (well, c2000) photos taken from the same spots, to show how the city has changed over the years. With photos dating back from before the 1900's, and lots of ideal locations for possible film shoots, the book is my new bible!
It clearly shows what locations can or cannot work for the idea I have, and being in print I can scan at a high resolution, which bypasses the quality issues taken from online resources. Here's just a few sample pages to help show what the book is about...
I'm already getting ideas for visual elements and cool ideas, so much so that a better, more refined storyboard is in the works.
Using this great new resource, along with the vast online ones I have, it's now time to start narrowing down my photographic options, picking a select few, and start plotting out an on location shoot. Maybe I should leave the storyboarding til then, as it depends on which locations are suitable on the day for filming, and there's not much point in grafting something out only to find out I can't do it for whatever reason.
Still, a basic outline can't hurt...
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