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January 21, 2006

Familiar Faces

Pre-production is humming along here at Bridge Studios in Burnaby, BC. Familiar faces are popping up everywhere. Today I saw Michael Blundell, one of our D.O.P’s and Kenny Gibbs, the SG-1 Props Master. He’s the guy we talk to about knives, guns, krantos, bedsheets, hats, evacuation pods and even alien artifacts. And Alex Pappas, one of our AD’s, was here for the first time this season, and he's one of our glue guys. Great people, all around.

Martin Wood was in my office the other day talking about how great Carl Binder’s scripts are for this season. Talk about a guy who loves what he does. This guy is giddy about the upcoming shows, and his enthusiasm shows in his work.

Anyway, we’ve already had construction meetings, pre-production meetings, tons of story meetings, script-note meetings, scheduling meetings, equipment meetings, and personnel meetings, and it’s only January 20th!

Tonight you’ll get to see Ripple Effect on SG-1 and Critical Mass on Atlantis. Here’s some stuff you didn’t know about these shows.

· Ripple Effect showcases some cameos for some beloved characters you’ll remember from past seasons… No, I’m not going to tell you who… okay I will. JR Bourne is back as Martouf and Teryl Rothery is back too as Dr. Janet Fraiser.

· People always tell you that, when you don’t have everything you need or want to make something happen, creativity thrives. That is very true in film and tv, and very applicable to Ripple Effect. The show was prepped before our hiatus last year, and our crew (especially art and construction) had been working their tails off and were nearly burned out. So we needed to find an exciting episode that didn’t require new builds and lots of work on sets. What did we do? We relied on our talented writers and actors to make a fun story with what we had. So think about that when you’re watching tonight.

· On Critical Mass, you get to see Rachel Luttrell sing. One of the problems we had was… she was too good! They decided to re-record it so that she would sound less polished. I personally think they found a happy balance. But these actors make me sick. It’s not enough that they’re beautiful and can act, but they can sing too? And do martial arts. And… and… and… enough already!

ATL

Posted by Alex Levine at January 21, 2006 01:16 AM