Lights! Camera! Action!
TV pilot filmed at garden
Wall Street Community Garden was the star of the show as a film production crew used the garden in early September to shoot a TV pilot.
The proposed comedy series, entitled Gardens, is a story of controlling personalities, over-sized egos and bitter grudge matches in a fictionalized community garden.
“We looked at a few community gardens around Vancouver and this one really stood out,” said one of the show’s writers.
“We just loved the location, the combination of a community garden and the Port of Vancouver. And the garden was perfect, beautiful with a slight touch of grunginess.”
The shoot is actually a pilot for a pilot, explained the writer. The finished edit will be submitted to Bell Media for financing to produce a more elaborate pilot for what the production team hopes will eventually become a TV series.
In TV vernacular, pilots are standalone episodes of a TV series used to sell a show to a network or distributor.
Member-at-Large Randy and Membership Coordinator Suzanne worked with the TV crew to organize and schedule the filming.
At the shoot, many crew members gushed about how they loved the idea of community gardens and Wall Street Community Garden in particular.
Exclaimed one of the technical crew: “What a magical place!”
Watch a rough cut of the pilot here:
