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Story so far.... | The art dept want to see how the tram is coming along, so we set up the tram with whatever relevant furniature we have for the shot. The art dept is based at Elstree, so we send the images down the line and vice-versa...or is that the other way around? The tram is basically FOAMEX, which is pretty smooth as a rule, but it is quite soft and very easily textured and marked with a dremel. | |
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Watch your fingers!...and your lungs! | A close up of the gate showing the REAL rust. This is achieved by spray mounting iron powder onto it, spraying with hydrochloric acid and leaving outside overnight.Kids, dont try spraying Hydrochloric acid at home! | |
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Slimey inside.. | . ...well, they are Vogons! Here you can see the double skinned construction of the tram....creating a void for the transportation of lighting wires, giving the concrete some thickness | |
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Lookout below! | Another victim of the rust fairies...the roof itself was not supposed to have been seen from above like this, but you never can be sure these days, so many directors dont stick to storyboards, or do, and film additional scenes, get creative. The day you dont make something half decent is the day they go up real close and fill the frame with it. Sods law. I tend to do these little extras after work in my own time. Alas, this was NOT seen. Maybe I should have done what I was told. Naughty boy. The thinking behind the big holes was that there are always big chunks of masonary falling off the badly maintained vogon buildings...and from a great high too! | |
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Unashamed self promotion | Giving the model scale or just wishful thinking, hoping to make it into Cinefex magazine again? | |
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O.T.T ? | Kinda looks over dirty, but a lot of that will be lost when they hit it with those studio lights...maybe its not dirty ENOUGH!!? | |
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The Vogon's on the LEFT! | Proof that Im a sad old git.....doing this in my spare time...those are my temporary digs in the background. | |
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He's (h)armless | Looks like someone else finished him off...well, they didnt, thats all my own work. Im proud of this little vogon, one of the best things Ive done for a movie. Even more of a shame when you cant see him in the movie. No value for money on this one Im afraid. | |
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Salon beautiful hair | Plumbers hemp was used for the vogons hair. Plenty of room inside But who'd want to get in, with all that slime around? Only another Vogon. Had there been the time and the budget I would have cast some more vogons and placed them inside. "You're never going to see them" Bill said. He was right. | |
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Where's it going? | Its going from left to right. Enters frame stage left, travels towards the vogon waiting at the bus stop....build up towards it stopping (build up for the gag)...only to find it doesnt, it drives on and then exits frame stage right..about 11 seconds on the storyboard. What the viewer sees is the tram from a point just prior to the bus stop and a second or two afterwards...oh well. | |
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Moment of truth.. | . Now, dont fall apart ....not that any of my models ever have. More dribbles on the windows are asked for. This is the part you get the most buzz from (prior to seeing the movie that is), making sure the model looks its best...or in the case of vogon technology, its worst. Bit like putting the make-up on a star before they shout action. What the camera doesnt see... .....The hidden slot in the set and track for the tram to travel on. | |
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Are you ready? (to do the bus-stop) | This is about as close as we get to the tram. The Vogon city will be composited in behind the tram. Some arcing will be added in post-production, as will be a CGI Vogon at the bus-stop. | |
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Just a shape | This would have been all you would have seen of the Vogon driver - had this angle been used.It was shot. But never used. | |
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Wot, no driver? | For the wide shots of the Vogon city..a 1:100 scale tram was needed. I was the logical man for the job. Again..in foamex. This is as far as I took it. Vinny painted it up. I think scales got mixed up a bit. The scale of the destroyer(and therefore the city) was about 1:500...but I couldnt make a 1:500 tram - you'de never see it! As it was closer to camera, it kind of forces the perspective anyway. | |
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Pocket size tram? | Good job Vinny..again, one of those details that registers subconsciously...if your lucky. Depth of field problems with this digital camera of mine...I must get an SLR digital one day. I actually got this tram back after the shoot. No chance with the big one though. That (and the driver) got stolen off the stage! | |
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What tram? | This shot gives us an idea of how large the Vogon buildings are actually supposed to be. A mile high I think was mooted....even at 1:100 you can hardly see it. |
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