PreProduction Unit- Location Updates- Doctors Surgery

I have recently been continuing my search for suitable locations for Inoculum. So far, we have confirmed Charlie's house as a location for the Reed family home, Mote Park in Maidstone for the final park scene, and also Production Room 2 at the Maidstone Television Studios, which we intend to use as a backup location if we cannot find somewhere to use as a doctors office.
Speaking of the doctor's office location, I have had made some excellent progress when it comes to finding a legitimate surgery that we can film in- which will save us money on props to "dress up" Production Room 2, and will also add a sense of authenticity to the overall film.

During a conversation with one of the actors that applied for the position of Dr. Hughes, Kevin Stones- we began to discuss potential locations that we would be filming at, and he informed me that he could potentially have several of his own contacts that he could put us in touch with to help us find suitable locations. Kevin suggested that he help us find a Doctor's Surgery and a Laboratory location. This was especially useful to us, as these were the two main locations I was having trouble acquiring, mostly because laboratories are extremely difficult to ascertain the rights to film at due to health and safety reasons, and doctor's surgeries are often difficult to film at due to patient confidentiality, and the fact that doctor's surgeries are almost always in use, and are therefore very difficult to film in, because there are always people around.

Kevin put me in touch with a contact called Dr. Nick, who works at a doctor's practice called "The Whitehouse Surgery" in Cheriton, Folkstone. I spoke with Nick over the phone, and he informed me that he was more than willing to allow us to use a room in his surgery for our filming, as long as the filming took place over a weekend. This is mostly due to the fact that Saturday and Sunday are times where the practice is least busy, and as such we will be allowed to film freely.
He also informed me that there were parking spaces at the surgery, so we would not have to pay extra for parking in a private car park on production day. He told me that he would send photographs of the interior of the surgery via email, and that we could speak more about actual film dates and times when I had visited the area for a recce.

As you can see from the above photograph, I searched for the surgery using Google Maps, and I was very impressed with the exterior. It has a very old-school vibe in terms of being a doctor's surgery, but I can only guess what the inside looks like at this point in time.

Other projects developments include me working on some concept art for the "OmegaPharm" logo.

 Myself and Charlie have agreed that our original plan of creating a book for our preproduction package would severely limit our time for creating assets for the book at this point in time, and as such, we have decided that it would be best for us to instead use the assets we have gathered so far and investigate other ways we can submit our package.
At the moment, I believe submitting our ideas in a plain white "OmegaPharm" branded folder with our character profiles, location profiles, script and other assets inside would make for a very official looking package.

UPDATE 24/11/2015:
I have just received an email containing the photographs of the surgeries interior that I discussed earlier in this blog post. Here they are;

As you can see from the above photos, this location is instantly recognisable as a doctors surgery/consultancy room. This to me is a major benefit, as one of my main concerns about the doctor's surgery location was that viewer's wouldn't recognise the location as being a doctor's surgery, and instead would think it was just some kind of office.
The examination bed, all the files and the lighting make it clear that this is a medical room of some sort, and as such, I think this would be a perfect location for the doctor's surgery scene.

One concern I do have is the size of the room. Doctor's surgeries tend to be relatively small (as the nature of doctor's visits usually only include one or two people in the room), and as such, there may not be enough room for Charlie and the rest of the crew to manoeuvre cameras around such a tight space.
My next step will be to visit the location and perform a recce.