Lazarus Day 5
Long tme no post. The sad fact is I'm to lazy to come up with an excuse so in the blank area below right your own. Then read my first actual post in a damn long time.
After the flat out balls to wall excitement of day 4, day 5 was a much more familiar and sedate affair. No hordes of zombies or extensive networks of underground tunnels here, just a small group of Beacon regulars and the womb like confines of the ‘studio’. All that remained to shoot were the top and tail of the story all of which happened aboard Brown’s spaceship the Venturer.
Now to be honest I’ve always assumed that the ships name was chosen because of its literal definition ‘One who ventures, or puts to hazard’ which at the end of the day, is quite a good choice of name for a spaceship used by an intergalactic explorer.
Then one day while channel hoping I caught a documentary on BBC 2. It turns out over the years the name Venturer has been held by 6 different vessels in the Royal Navy. Them most famous of which is undoubtedly the V-class submarine HMS Venturer (well, what else was it going to be called?) On the 9th of February 1945 the Venturer became the only submarine ever to kill a submerged submarine, while submerged herself. The tactics used by her captain one Jimmy Launders on that day have since gone on to became the corner stone of modern sub warfare.
Now when you know that sensible, egg head futurists believe that spaceship to spaceship combat, is unlikely to be anything like the bi-plane inspired dog fighting of the star wars films, and is in fact much more likely to be akin to modern submarine warfare, you start to find hidden depths in Mr Browns choice of name. The fact that for a number of shows Stephen had a travelling companion called Jimmy is probably just a coincidence. I guess one of these days I really should ask.
Now you’ve probably already worked out from my somewhat lazy segue into an unnecessary tangent, but not a lot happened on day 5.
The only real issue was Sarah not being able to attend to do the required zombie make-up (she was studying volcanoes in Tenerife, life is hard) luckily she had left Simon and I all of the equipment, and detailed instructions required to make-up the one zombie. How hard could it be?
FEAR THE SPACE PANDA!!!
Turns out there is an element of skill involved after all, and neither Simon or I posses it, well at least it was only for one scene.
It also turns out Ben had finally had enough of me calling him a big girls blouse over the mud incident!
But finally the last day of filming on Lazarus drew to a nice, quite, subdued close. (With only 1 random pipe attack). With everything in the can the shoot was over. Or was it?
On a final aside, in the course of writing this post I also discovered that the word Venturer has a second definition. Google it and hit definition, then try not to giggle like a school girl. I dare ya.
After the flat out balls to wall excitement of day 4, day 5 was a much more familiar and sedate affair. No hordes of zombies or extensive networks of underground tunnels here, just a small group of Beacon regulars and the womb like confines of the ‘studio’. All that remained to shoot were the top and tail of the story all of which happened aboard Brown’s spaceship the Venturer.
Now to be honest I’ve always assumed that the ships name was chosen because of its literal definition ‘One who ventures, or puts to hazard’ which at the end of the day, is quite a good choice of name for a spaceship used by an intergalactic explorer.
Then one day while channel hoping I caught a documentary on BBC 2. It turns out over the years the name Venturer has been held by 6 different vessels in the Royal Navy. Them most famous of which is undoubtedly the V-class submarine HMS Venturer (well, what else was it going to be called?) On the 9th of February 1945 the Venturer became the only submarine ever to kill a submerged submarine, while submerged herself. The tactics used by her captain one Jimmy Launders on that day have since gone on to became the corner stone of modern sub warfare.
Now when you know that sensible, egg head futurists believe that spaceship to spaceship combat, is unlikely to be anything like the bi-plane inspired dog fighting of the star wars films, and is in fact much more likely to be akin to modern submarine warfare, you start to find hidden depths in Mr Browns choice of name. The fact that for a number of shows Stephen had a travelling companion called Jimmy is probably just a coincidence. I guess one of these days I really should ask.
Now you’ve probably already worked out from my somewhat lazy segue into an unnecessary tangent, but not a lot happened on day 5.
The only real issue was Sarah not being able to attend to do the required zombie make-up (she was studying volcanoes in Tenerife, life is hard) luckily she had left Simon and I all of the equipment, and detailed instructions required to make-up the one zombie. How hard could it be?
FEAR THE SPACE PANDA!!!
Turns out there is an element of skill involved after all, and neither Simon or I posses it, well at least it was only for one scene.
It also turns out Ben had finally had enough of me calling him a big girls blouse over the mud incident!
But finally the last day of filming on Lazarus drew to a nice, quite, subdued close. (With only 1 random pipe attack). With everything in the can the shoot was over. Or was it?
On a final aside, in the course of writing this post I also discovered that the word Venturer has a second definition. Google it and hit definition, then try not to giggle like a school girl. I dare ya.
5 Comments:
If I remember rightly, this was the day I wish I was insured by Beacon, note to self and everyone...NEVER GET UNDER A ROCKING TABLE WITH A CONSOLE ON IT...THEY FALL ON YOU!!
Hi Steve,
FYI: Choice of the name Venturer is a personal one of mine. Name of the first ship I ever went on for my first trip abroad at the age of 8. Ship was called the Viking Venturer and introduced me to the world of travel, so seemed a good idea. Incidentally, the ship had a sister ship which was called the Viking Valiant - if you listen closely to the first part of The Enemy Within, that gets name checked too..
Mr L
I'm impressed that you managed to write so much after such a hectic Friday and Saturday night.
I'm still knackered now...
Cheers for the history lesson Mr L. As the post implies I always wondered where the name came from.
I personally find coming up with names for stuff the hardest part of writing (no comments about spelling or punctuation please) Quite often I just end up casting my eye around looking for inspiration. Which could explian why in my latest effort, there's a space ship named after the stapler on my desk at work!
We have the same stapler at work, except ours if called Rob Schneider.
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