Tuesday 25 March 2014

Filming at Stirling University - Outlander, perhaps?

On my way home from work one night before Christmas, travelling along the A811, I noticed some large, bright lights suspended from Large Cranes.  After dinner that night, my wife and I went to investigate.

We couldn't see much - a field approx half a mile from the road surrounded by trees seemed to be the main focus of the lights.  There was a field further down with vehicles and security - we stopped but they refused to advise what they were filming.

We later found out that they were filming a new TV series based on books by Diana Gabaldon called "Outlander".

"Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another.

In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands, and finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an outlander, in a country torn by war and by clan feuds.

A wartime nurse, Claire can deal with the bloody wounds that face her. But it is harder to deal with the knowledge that she is in Jacobite Scotland and the carnage of Culloden is looming. Marooned amid the passion and violence, the superstition, the shifting allegiances and the fervent loyalties, Claire is in danger from Jacobites and Redcoats - and from the shock of her own desire for James Fraser, a gallant and courageous young Scots warrior. Jamie shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire, and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives."

Sounds interesting!  I'm not really a book reader - but I'm sure that the TV series will be great!

So, out and about tonight, and we see a large light off in the distance.  Drawn to it, we end up at Stirling University - at Airthrey Castle to be precise - to find Film Crew Vehilces - and plenty of them.  Speculation on Twitter is that this is more filming for Outlander!



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