#rachel talalay

[classichorrorblog]

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

#Horror #Horroredit #Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare #Rachel Talalay #Robert Englund #Breckin Meyer #Freddy Krueger #CHB #Quotes #1991 #90s

[greyhoundone]

Some things I found interesting from Rachel Talalay's live commentary of Heaven Sent at Chicago TARDIS:

- The story was originally set in a haunted house with weeping angels.

- Sometimes a single line would be shot across a mix of three locations: two actual castles and a set.

- The script was clear that the castle should have no interior lighting except for the fireplace where The Doctor dries their clothes. Rachel got some pushback from the crew on a shaft of light coming at an angle from outside, asking where the light came from. Her response was, "It doesn't have to come from anywhere. It comes from 'It looks good.'"

- Rachel worked to give more of a horror vibe to certain scenes. She did things like add a spooky wind, have Peter play the tone more for horror, and even consult with Murray Gold to keep the tone consistent. She also pushed for a “creepy garden” as opposed to the formal garden Moffat had scripted.

- Jenna wasn’t available for most of the shots where Clara is writing on the TARDIS chalkboards. They originally used a double, but the double was too obviously not Jenna. It was actually the person who did the colour grading who found other usable shots of Jenna from behind and put them in the final episode.

- Everyone was very worried about Peter hurting his hand punching the wall, especially since he had hurt his hand punching the TARDIS console in "Death in Heaven." They were going to have Peter just fake the punch and get a stunt person for close-ups, but Peter insisted on doing the punches himself because of the importance of the moment for his character. Rachel agreed on the condition that, "If you hurt yourself, you're the one who tells your wife." (He did not hurt himself again.)

- When the Doctor burns themselves and their hand dissolves away to nothing, the hand was sculpted out of Lush bath bombs. Rachel had the idea and suggested it as a cost-effective solution. So they just sculpted Peter's hand out of bath bombs and poured some water on it.

- When the Doctor breaks through the wall and the Veil collapses, the collapse was achieved by filling the Veil costume with helium balloons and then popping them.

#Doctor Who #Heaven Sent #Rachel Talalay #Chicago TARDIS #Peter Capaldi #Steven Moffat #New Who #Twelve #Twelfth Doctor #The Doctor #The Veil #Doctor Who behind the scenes #Dr. Who #Doctor Who cast #Doctor Who conventions #Jenna Coleman #Clara Oswald

[2001hz]

Tank Girl Directed By: Rachel Talalay (1995) Animated Sequence By: Mike Smith

#tank girl #rachel talalay #1995 #cinemetography #film #stills #gifs #post apocalyptic #fantasy #sci fi #cyberpunk #animation #mike smith #y2k aesthetic

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Star Beast - Part Three

Excerpt from Benjamin Cook’s Star Beast Set Visit in DWM 597:

Meanwhile on set, Catherine Tate is struggling to carry a stack of cardboard boxes through the market. To be fair, it’s a lofty stack. Her vision is impaired. She cannot see. “I think this is the reason I don’t drive,” she says. “I’ve got no brain for spacial awareness. How do I look?” “Amazing,” says Yasmin Finney (known as Yaz), who plays Donna’s daughter, Rose. “This is certainly a moment,” she adds. “Yes, it is, thank you,” says Catherine, dropping the boxes. None of this is in the script. “How can I make it look like I know what I’m doing?” Here’s what’s scripted: “Hold on. Hold on! Let me help,” says the Doctor, running over. He takes the top box and sees who it is – oh no! “Thank you very much,” says Donna. Very calmly, the Doctor puts the box back. “Oi! Do you mind?!” she says. “If you’re finished playing games, mister.”

Despite “the incredible scope” – Rachel’s words [Rachel Talalay, director] – of this Camden shoot, it’s characterful moments like this one, the Doctor and Donna meeting again after all these years, that make The Star Beast’s hearts beat. “Actors of this calibre don’t lose sight of that,” says Rachel, “and neither must I. Russell has written it so brilliantly – I adore Russell – so I have to make sure these moments work. They’re the emotional core of this episode, and this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the Doctor and Donna, back together! Setting eyes on each other again…” “Would I keep hold of the box?” wonders David. “I suppose I’ve got to be polite somehow.” “I think it’s that or he runs away,” agrees Rachel. “Yeah, sure. No, absolutely.” “Still looking good,” Yaz whispers to Catherine, encouragingly, as the boxes are re-stacked. “I know,” Catherine whispers back, “I’m feeling damn fine. I think it’s the shoes.” She has a question for Rachel: “When I say, ‘This stuff’s not mine, it’s hers. Oh, where’s she gone? Rose! ROSE!’, am I looking at him” – this is David – “or at the boxes, or looking around for Yaz?” “Well…” replies Rachel (this is the director’s lot: fielding dozens of question every minute), “I think you’d be looking at David, but what feels more natural? And when you do the very loud ‘ROSE!’, is that working for you both?” “It’s working for me,” says David. “It’s quite weird, she’s shouting it in my face –” “Donna’s in her own world, isn’t she?” says Catherine. “I like that.” “I like that too,” says David. So does Rachel. “I totally trust you guys’ instincts.” “Oh, I wouldn’t do that,” says Catherine, with a chortle.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who posted set photos

I’ll post additional parts in the coming months with the  #whoBtsBeast tag. The full episode list is [ here ]

#david tennant #catherine tate #yasmin finney #doctor who #rtdedit #star beast #rachel talalay #it does my heart so good to see the doctor and donna #together again after all these years #and the shouting rose at him was great #whoBts #whoBtsBeast #stuff i posted

[angelnumber27]

Tank Girl

#tank girl #comics #drawing #art #Rachel Talalay #British comics #alan martin #jamie hewlett #Philip bond #glyn Dillon #Ashley wood #it’s giving me Dirty Harry by gorillaz

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Lori Petty - Tank Girl (1995)

#tank girl gif #lori petty gif #90s movies #comic book movies #post-apocalyptic #rachel talalay #jamie hewlett #alan martin #1990s #1995 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[spinninwiththestars]

how many seconds in eternity? DOCTOR WHO | S09E11 - HEAVEN SENT

#doctor who #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #dr who #whovian #dw #dwedit #doctor who gif #heaven sent #doctor who series 9 #time lord #gallifrey #tardis #bbc doctor who #doctor who bbc #rachel talalay

[90smovies]

#Tank Girl #Lori Petty #Rachel Talalay #Alan Martin #Jamie Hewlett #Tedi Sarafian #VHS #90s

[in-love-with-movies]

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

#A Nightmare on Elm Street #filmedit #horroredit #Robert Englund #Breckin Meyer #Lezlie Deane #Johnny Depp #Rachel Talalay #my gifs #movie gifs

[pablolf]

I don’t have masses of stories about Steven, because we don’t hang out a lot, but I just get to sit and gawp at his brilliance. But here’s a really memorable moment for me – I don’t think I’ve told it in the magazine before. In the edit suite during Hell Bent, I asked Steven if he had anything specific he wanted for the paint peeling off Clara’s portrait on the TARDIS, as I was about to go talk to the Visual Effects artists about it. He casually answered, “The logic is flexible, the poetry is immutable.” And we all continued editing, except my brain went “What?! That’s one of the most amazing thing I’ve heard and it was just a casual comment.” So I quietly wrote it down, because I knew I’d forget it. And the more I thought about it, the more it became a film-making mantra – so I started using it when I teach. Do not misinterpret that to imply, ‘Be timey-wimey’. It was said in reference to a visual – that the feeling that it evokes is more important than the mechanics of how it is created. It’s all about the net result for the audience. And that’s just Steven on a throw-away day! But my personal favourite memory of Steven is when we showed him the first edit of Heaven Sent and at the end he couldn’t talk. He was that pleased. He said, “I didn’t think it could be pulled off.” He’d become so enthralled, he hadn’t even written any notes.

RACHEL TALALAY (Doctor Who Magazine Issue 515 September 2017)

#rachel talalay #steven moffat #doctor who #tv #filmmaking

[moviesycho]

every movie I've watched in 2023 [27/?]:

FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991) directed by Rachel Talalay

#freddy's dead: the final nightmare #a nightmare on elm street #a nightmare on elm street 6 #rachel talalay #freddy krueger #film #movie #filmedit #movieedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #slasher #horror #watched in 2023 #1990s #1991

[nihillist-blog]

Tank Girl (1995)

#Tank Girl #Rachel Talalay #Lori Petty #Ice-T #Naomi Watts #Malcolm McDowell #90s #science fiction #movie caps

[millerdoc]

#peter capaldi #jenna coleman #rachel talalay #twelfth doctor #12th doctor #the doctor #dw #twelve #doctor who

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Star Beast - Part One

Excerpt from Benjamin Cook's Star Beast Set Visit in DWM 597:

There’s a buzz in the air in Camden Town tonight as the market vendors shut up shop. Businessmen wait on the bridge by the lock. Students rush from the Starbucks, buskers busk. Tourists jostle for a selfie spot, next to the bronze statue of Amy. At the northernmost point of Camden High Street, a man with a mohawk folds away his cardboard placard (‘HELP A PUNK TO GET DRUNK’) and heads across the road to buy a Red Bull from the 24/7. Three men in North Face jackets, one on a stepladder, yank a tarpaulin sheet off a police box. Security guards change shifts. On Gin Alley, people are still queuing for meat and noodles. A woman in a Kermit tee leaves Oddballs carrying a unicycle. Rose Noble buys a bagful of eyes. Outside Cyberdog, two silver robots, three times the height of the average human, stand vigil. A different crowd is gathered here too, dripping in scarves, bowties, and pinstripes. A dog barks. A neon sign flickers. David Tennant arrives. Some people cheer. Others clap. A boy in a beanie hat drops his falafel. An ambulance siren wails in the distance. Two-hundred phones are held aloft. “What a rock star,” says Doctor Who’s executive producer, Phil Collinson. “I still can’t quite believe David is back on the Doctor Who set.” Neither can he. “It’s mental,” says David, grinning. “We’ve got three more months of this.” It’s mid-May 2022, and he’s donned the vintage Converse once more to play the Doctor, alongside Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, in three hour-long 60th Anniversary Specials. They began filming in Cardiff last week. A few days ago, he recorded his half of the regeneration from Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor.

I’ll post additional parts in the coming months with the  #whoBtsBeast tag. The full episode list is [ here ]

#david tennant #catherine tate #doctor who #rtdedit #yasmin finney #jacqueline king #rachel talalay #the star beast #so excited to have new episodes to add #benjamin cook #dwm #whoBts #whoBtsBeast #stuff i posted #doctor who 60th anniversary #dw spoilers #what a gift these episodes are

[cactiaintracist]

Just saw an interview with Rachel Talalay (who directed the Star Beast) where she was like "we don’t have anything of a budget akin to a show like game of thrones so the challenge with the special effects was for it to seem to the audience that we did"

Then they opened the first episode from with that shitty mid 2000s screensaver shot with David Tennant doing a cheesy monologue

But the fact that we all watched it and said "of course that was intentional, thank god the special effects aren't too good" shows that they knew exactly what they were doing

#doctor who #60th anniversary #the star beast #wild blue yonder #dw special effects #rachel talalay

[thegodofhellfire]

#tank girl #1995 #mike smith #animation #rachel talalay #lori petty