Dale Elena McCready BSC NZCS Cinematographer

The Merlin Archive page 6

1st AD Gareth Williams and Producer Sara Hamill discuss how we make the day and get out fo these caves!

Camera Trainee katy Kardasz with one of of the carts to move the large amount of camera equipment around.

Lovely on set stills photographer Nick Briggs! Nick is responsible for all the main promotional photos you would have seen for the show.

Angel models some new fabrics for upcoming Guinevere outfits. We would do on camera tests to check the colours and detail.

Gaffer Gary Chaisty measures the light on set.

1st AC Ivan Meagher standing in for me.

Testing out my “Lens Baby” lenses for use in a vision of the future

testing out the lens baby lens for use in one of Morgana’s visions

A vision of old Merlin - testing out the lens effect on Coloin and his makeup

Colin really loved playing cantankerous older Merlin, even though applying the prosthetic face was a long procress.

Grip Assistant Greg Murray

1st AC Ivan stands in for an actor against the green screen. Getting the exposure right is important in these setups. The green screen needs to be as even as possible with good separation between fg and bg. Sometimes looking into a wall of green can

Our French Assistant Direcotor Marie Devatour stands in, in silhouette. She worked on the entire series coordinating the French speaking actors and extras in Pierrefonds and eventually was on with us full time in Wales too.

Green screen set for a vision of the future and the death of Arthur

Director Ashley Way checks out the frame through the camera.

Near misses with the beautiful and clever Raven trained to fly out of shot on a cue. I love birds so really enjoyed shooting this and could feel it’s wings brush my head every time it flew by as it’s a big bird and tended to drop before it could get

This vision of the future would eventually have boiling skies added into the background. I love shooting this technical material using VFX and cameras together.

on set stills photographer Nick Briggs helps me test out the lens for the vision effect

The lens baby on Katie in another vision of the future

The guys rehearsing under the studio flourescent lighting

Now we set the lighting for the scene

More notes come in from Director Alice Troughton

The final lighting with the guys in the shot

Richard Wilson as Gaius faces up to the inquisition from Charles Dance’s Witchfinder

Lining up a shot with director Jeremy Webb and Emilia Fox’ Morgause at Puzzle Wood

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