Andy's Wild Adventures was a fantastic opportunity to see green screen in action, look at lighting set ups and just to be able to watch a production in full swing.
We had good chance to speak to all the team and see how each of the individual roles were working together. The cameraman and lighting engineer even swapped roles for a bit to set a shot up!
The shoot was centred around Marine Iguana's and, like all the series, uses BBC natural history footage and then overlays Andy with clever use of green screen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cbn46/Andys_Wild_Adventures_Elephants/
On Saturday Morning we were able to visit Aardman and have a look around the studio's and offices. it was incredible and I must admit that I got just a little bit excited to see a small studio set up with Morph in it! We were also very lucky to see the model of the Pirate ship from the new feature length movie
The Pirates! - In An Adventure With Scientists. It was an incredible model standing around 8 feet tall and the attention to detail was mind blowing.
The studio's gave us a massive insight into the work load that goes into producing these programmes, the lighting is immense with around 12 lights on a small 6 feet set.
The models and scenes are so detailed and everything looks so real in its miniature form. We were told about one scene that will be used in the upcoming pirates film that is 10 minutes long and took one lady two years to film in the studio. The average time from conception through filming and into edit is around four years!
For more information on Aardman please see the link below and check out the trailer for the new movie
Aardmans Website
http://www.aardman.com/
Trailer
http://www.aardman.com/features/upcoming-features/the-pirates-in-an-adventure-with-scientists/
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