THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "BATWOMAN" SEASON 2 EPISODES 16 or 17?.
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Last night, Batwoman was filming a few blocks down the street from me on a very rare Monday night/Tuesday early morning. An interior scene started off their day inside a club. I dont know what, if any cast were in it. Later, they moved to a back alley behind the club to shoot a couple scenes in the back. First, a scene with Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder, this was the 1st time I had seen her as Ryan, and not Batwoman since my 1st sighting of her way back during the 1st episode. She was doing a scene with Camrus Johnson as Luke Fox. The scene simply had the pair standing in the middle of the alley having a talk, before Luke turns and walks away. That was it. After that, a scene was done with Camrus again, and an unknown actor. The scene seemed to be Luke trying to get his way into the club, with the man, who was presenting himself to appear like he was supposed to be a bouncer nodding his head at the door at one point, before Luke went thru the door.

One thing I noticed several times on the set tonight, was crew members wearing Black Lives Matters hoodies. I asked a crew member later on where they came from, thinking maybe the studio ordered them for them from somewhere. But was told a crew member was making them for people asking. After a situation up here a few months ago where a producer got in trouble for demanding a crew member take their BLM attire off, I saw many in the industry here asking if there was any place locally that they could get some made out of support for the movement, and the crew member. Till today I hadnt seen it really though on any of the sets outside of a 1 off hat on one set. After that, it seemed they were moving locations, so I headed home. I HAD planned on calling it a night, but then was given reason to go back out & try the next scene when Wallis Day, the woman recently cast to replace the fired Ruby Rose, as Kate Kane said she was going to be on set in a tweet.

When I got back, I found them setting up to film on a very small, almost unknown street to most, that runs under 1 of our bridges. The Batmobile was being prepped for the scene, I had seen it earlier in the evening parked on this street with a tarp over it, so I knew it would be there later. I took a few pics of it while they were preparing it to film, and was able to get a partial photo of the inside, and the cool techie screen in there. The scene had Javicia now dressed as Batwoman, doing a scene where she (and her stunt driver) is in the Batmobile, speeding along, and comes to a stop where a woman is standing in the middle of the road..... its Wallis Day, as Kate Kane. While many had seen photos of Wallis lately with blonde hair, it was unknown of her version of Kate would be blonde. Now we can confirm, she will be

I never really got to see what Wallis did in the scene, only a short rehearsal of it. But it mostly seemed she just stood in front of the vehicle. I could hear Javicia speaking in the scene, but couldnt make out what she was saying. So is this the 1st encounter Ryan & Kate have?  One thing is for certain, this was the 1st time Wallis was seen on set publicly since being cast.

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THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "BATWOMAN" SEASON 2 EPISODES 8, 9, & either 10, or 11?.
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This set is from a couple sets I went to in late January & early February that I kind of got behind working on. So apologies on that.

The first set is short, simple & easy. It was a quick establishing shot of a Gotham Barber shop. Little did I know it at the time it was shot, it would be so pivotal to the story, as it was setting up the return of Kate Kane. They filmed this scene for about an hour waaaaay back on January 20th. At the time of this blog post, I thought this COULD be for episode 9, or 10 based off a statement Camrus Johnson stated in a live chat once on the 30th that they were currently working on the 10th episode that day. As it turns out, it was for the very end of episode 8.

Two days later, I caught up to them again 2 blocks from my house, but again. There was no main cast there. The scene I saw was of an SUV drive up, a man get out of the passengers side, go up to the steps and shoot. Earlier in the evening they had shot a scene with a person in a uniform seeming to get shot, and another scene with Keeya King as Jordan Moore. Those scenes were for episode 9.

Early February I caught up to them in an alley a few blocks from my house. On set this night was a mystery man trying to get into his car, and Batwoman, who comes swooping in from the sky, and confronts him. No real battle happened, but the discussion was short, and then Batwoman flies off again. Javicia Leslie was on set for this shoot, and did some, or all, of the stunts where she flies through the air.  This scene could be for episode 10 or 11, based on the fact it was a few days after that Camrus conversation took place.

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THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "BATWOMAN" SEASON 1 EPISODE 4 titled " Who Are You".
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So far the series has filmed a lot in places that are not terribly visible. This was the 5th set I had been to for Batwoman, and it was the first time I really got a clear look at a scene done for the show. That said, it was not till the 3rd night of their shoot. This episode is being directed by Holly Dale, a veteran director of all of the Chicago (Med, Fire, & P.D.) shows, as well as Timeless, Reign, Castle, & Law & Order SVU, and many more.

On the first night, they shot all interiors at the Vancouver Club. This time, the club was repurposed to be a museum. On that night I saw a bunch of well dressed people going in & out of the building through out the evening. But the real shocker for me was when I saw not 1, but TWO people dressed as Batwoman come out at one point. Neither of which was the shows lead Ruby Rose. A bit later, I finally for the first time since the show came back to start filming season 1, I saw Ruby at set.... unfortunately it was as she was leaving for the night at 4 AM. But at least I can finally confirm she isn't just a figment of everyones imagination as many may wonder after her cancellation of San Diego Comic Con.

On the second night, again interior shooting was done. Again on that night I saw someone in the Batwoman costume that was not Ruby. In fact, I did not see Ruby till almost the end of the night as she showed up to work. During 1 tour I took away from the set during the night to investigate a different film set I was given a tip about, I came across their circus, and snapped a couple shots of some of the trailers there. Most notably was Sophie Moore, but more interesting was the non-regular cast I saw. A trailer for "Magpie doppleganger", and trailer for "Batwomen" and more curious one for "Batmen". At one point in the evening I did think I saw a guy come out in Batwoman gear, but my camera at night is far from reliable, so by the time it decided to do its job he was long into the darkness that surrounded much of the building. I saw a couple women dressed in short blond/silver hair and leather pants. Were either of them the "Magpie doppleganger" I saw the trailer for? Was 1 of them actually Magpie? I usually would think it could just be the stunt double of the actress, but 1 was a white woman, and the other Asian. So I am less sure that it was a stunt double, and not perhaps 1 being the doppleganger, and the other being the actual Magpie. I did at one point see a Sophie Moore (unsure if it was Meagan Tandy, or her double. Lighting was not ideal there outside of right in front of the door) walk out, but never saw her return. I left this set earlier than the night before, at around 3 AM because they had turned off all the outside lights, and most of the inside lights for whatever they were shooting, so being able to see anything was pointless.

The third night they moved outside. Unfortunately, it was a busy night for me, and on top of it, there was inexplicably a massive crowd around the set for much of it after the first two nights there being less than 5 people total, suddenly a crowd of 60+ was there at one point. So I did not spend a lot of time there, and missed a scene that Ruby shot as Kate Kane later in the evening on the sidewalk. When I first got there I saw a variety of "Gotham" themed vehicles parked along the street. I find it funny that "Gotham Taxi" has a basic 7 number phone number. Gotham is supposed to be a city of 10 Million+, and Vancouver is a city of 600K and they have 3 area codes. Time to update the phone numbers a bit. Reality has passed the idea you can get away with a 7 digit phone number in a metro area now.

While I was there however, I did see a scene shot that I never really quite understood. It seemed to have a bunch of the gallery guests out on the sidewalk for some reason. It seemed the boom mic was following this blonde girl in glasses, as she moved from 1 area where a couple of women flanked by CROWS security came up to talk to her, then several feet away she seemed to be talking to a different group of women. Was this Margaret Pye aka "Magpie"? I cant say for certain. I was unaware at first when I was shooting it that the woman on the head set might have been the focus of the scene. It wasnt till I looked at my photos later and noticed the boom mic was following her, and she was the only person in both parts of the scene. I left not long later as the crew were working hard to keep people from seeing the scene at all, and I didnt think there was much there to really see. Apparently I should have stuck it out, as I said earlier, Ruby did a scene out there that you can see in this gallery HERE from Celebrity Wotnot (unlike my photos, you very much will have to PAY to use theirs.... so be warned.).

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THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "BATWOMAN" SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 titled " ".
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With the announcement earlier this week from The CW that Batwoman would officially be joining the schedule of shows for the network this fall, it seemed like a good time to finally work on my blog post for the filming I saw done here.

This production was kind of tough to track down over the 2-3 weeks they were here filming the pilot earlier this year. But I did catch up to them at 1 location on multiple nights. The Vancouver Art Gallery is used often for filming. Almost every production has filmed there.

On the first night, they did an exterior shoot down in front of the gallery in the early evening. The scene saw a lot of Gothams elite going into an event that Mayor Akins was seemingly hosting, as massive banners saying “Mayor Akins” were hanging off the building. In front of the heavily guarded entrance for the event there was a CROWS Security truck at one point, along with dozens of protesters holding up a variety of signs in support of Batman.

This sets the stage for the scene to clearly be from in the past, prior to when Batwoman comes to town as the hero of the city. But, the signs also indicate Batman hasn't been around much of late. Will we ever find out why? Will this be one of the seasons main stories to solve? Or will the Batwoman writing team just gloss over it, and shove it aside, and alienate the majority of Batwoman fans who come into her story through the more recognizable Batman by never paying off the acknowledgement of his existence?

Cool extra thing throughout the shoot was, the use of the "Bat signal" in the sky in various spots. Much to everyone who was there watchings disappointment, it is nothing like the machine shown in the show. It is a far smaller lens, and more of a tube, with the Bat logo deep inside the tube, and not on the lens, to make the logo look bigger in the sky.

On the final night, there seemed to be even less to see, as there was no exterior shoot going on, except a really small one on 1 side of the building that I almost missed because of the strategically planted tree that mostly covered the angle unless you are walking right through the narrow space it was shooting. I had seen it shortly before, but there was just a stand in up there at the time, and I didn't see any crew set up to shoot, so I mistakenly passed it off as maybe just a crew member standing there. A very small unit (literally a camera person and 3 other crew to cover off the area from people stepping into it did a shot that they might have done multiple times for all I know, but I sadly only caught them on the very last take. It had Ruby Rose staring down off a makeshift perch they had built just for the scene. The light on her was so bright, my photos basically looked like I photographed a ghost standing there. But once she walked away from it I saw it was her, but she would never come back for another take there, so that was all I saw of Batwoman actually shooting that night, and it was really just as Kate Kane.

Some of the cast were on set throughout the two nights. But it is possible more than what I saw were there too, as much of what was shot was up on the rooftop during a rooftop party scene.

Ruby Rose – Kate Kane / Batwoman
Elizabeth Anweis – Catherine Hamilton Kane
Nicole Kang – Mary Hamilton
Meagan Tandy – Sophie Moore
Rachel Skarsten – Alice
Camrus Johnson – Luke Fox
Dougray Scott – Colonel Jacob Kane

Batwoman begins their 1st season on The CW October 6, 2019.

Here is the heavily criticized Batwoman trailer. Which has almost 400,000 dislikes, 83% dislikes to 17% likes, and a whopping 7% of all views received garnering a dislike vote. Good news for them, they have a few problems to fix their writing problems.

Below there is my set of photos from that shoot.