Tyranny of the Daleks - Episode 2

So here we are about an hour later and some further work carried out. The final visual work is putting in the laser blasts... of all the visuals this is perhaps the hardest work. I'm doing it the old fashioned way - turn the clips into filmstrips and then draw them on using Photoshop. The Thals are getting their lasers off first, and they are three layers of increasingly gaussian blurred light. Episode 2 has isolated pockets of laser fire, Episode 3 only has a little in the scenes starring Mr Feck whilst Episode 4 has quite large battle scenes both on Galentor and in the Dalek base on Tarack. Should be fun! The picture is a screen grab (and hence blurry) of Romana with Loran and Durac, two of the Thals on Galentor.

Once this is done its then a final edit, a review of the cg sequences to see if they really do work and then (once the DVD rewriter is installed properly) its over to Garry our sound and music man for the score! Its a lot of work but it really is fantastic fun. I think making this film has added so much to my enjoyment of visiting the cinema. The remake of King Kong, for example, would be for me a great film to work on.

Tyranny is perhaps a rather Flash Gordon-style Doctor Who fan film - we have tried to give it quite a fast pace. Whilst filming Episode 1 we seemed to enjoy filming action sequences and having a driving narrative that moved things along. Hopefully this will emerge in the final product. Episode 1 was in many ways a test or pilot episodes, its really 2,3 and 4 that we are excited about completing.

Anyway, enough for one evening!