Today one of the puppets had to ride a bike through a scene which involved screwing three of our rollie carts together. Two of them supported Thor, and one had a kids bike screwed to it. A twenty-foot pole pushed the whole shebang through the frame. The only problem was that we couldn’t back the puppet far enough out of shot, because of the pole, for him to be in the right place for one of the live actor’s eyelines to make sense. So in order to create the idea that the puppet came from far away, they handed me a pink bathrobe to hold at the height the puppet’s head would be, and then had me run with it and touch the puppet’s back, at which point the puppet would move forward at the same speed I had been travelling. I’m sure to an outside observer it was very strange.
Gee, wish I’d been on set to watch THAT one…
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It was pretty silly.
I’m sure that someone is already doing this: setting up a video camera to catch ‘behind the scenes’ and ‘bloopers’? I know that as a dad of a boy that watches LazyTown on a very regular basis, he would love it when they come out on DVD (hopefully someday). There are several DVDs he watches now that he has tired of the show (heaven forbid) but watches the extra stuff only.
Mind you, I’ve already made DVDs of all of the episodes we have seen. A sure way to get people to buy the DVDs of shows they may have archived from air is to offer ‘extra’ stuff on the disc.
Just my thoughts – it isn’t like you are the producer and have control over these bits, eh?
Oh Chris…I wish I could show you the bloopers. Clearly the answer is that you need to come visit me in Iceland.
Yes Chris, you should go visit Mary in Iceland (see my endorsement of such a trip under “comments” for “Eve at work” March 20th) I assure you, I saw many delightful bloopers while there, as well as glaciers and the northern lights, neither of which fit on a DVD.
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