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Behind the Scenes: Continuum
June 26, 2008 (General)
Peter Woeste describes the challenges of filming on Stargate SG-1’s most expensive ‘set’ yet – a fully operational US Navy nuclear submarine!
Photo courtesy of MGM Stargate
A brief excerpt:
Director of photography Peter Woeste has filmed in a lot of interesting places during his decades in the business, including plenty of locations with aspects of the US military. But never, until the filming of Continuum, had he filmed on an operational nuclear submarine. Before the Stargate: Continuum crew could even get aboard the sub, naturally it had to surface – and the opportunity to film a sub punching through the arctic ice wasn’t one that either Martin Wood or Peter Woeste would willingly pass up.
“The shot that we were really looking for, something that was unattainable anywhere else, was that we wanted to tie the sub coming out from under the ice in with our actors,” Woeste explains. “We wanted them in the same shot; so that there was no doubt that we were there. Otherwise we could have done it all with VFX!”
**snippage**
Next, Peter Woeste discusses the dangers the crew encountered whilst filming on the ice itself – including frostbite and Polar bears!
Story by Sharon Gosling
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