Planet Gallifrey: Doctor Who filming, 05.10.09

Tuesday, October 6

Doctor Who filming, 05.10.09

I'm so stupidly excited, I may just explode...

Hehe! New filming has made things very very fun!
So, its still for episode one as this lovely clapperboard tells us:
NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THIS YET: Steven Moffat's Series 5 is called Series 1. - Mac.

And its also NOT set in Scotland as this lovely flag tells us:
An England flag

And also apparently its a time travel story. Part of being set in 1996, when Amy was 8, the other part in 2010 when she is 20. Although this is unconfirmed.

A newspaper heading from the 90's

And what we have is Smithy and Karen on set, Smithy wearing Ten's clothes (which are ripped) and Karen wearing a very sexy police outfit. And shes definitely a policewoman and not a stripper or going to a hen night... apparently... (according to people who were at the filming)


There was also an icecream van and a Fire Engine too.

Now to put the scenes into some sort of coherent order. Remember, this is all just guesswork!

Scene 1
Here we have what looks like a very early on meeting of Amy and the Doctor. Here's an amazing video from Skarofighter:

Dialogue goes something along the lines of:

The Doctor: Why aren't there any ducks?
Amy: (Waves hand dismissively) Oh, you know...
The Doctor: Then how do you know the Ducks talk!
Amy: ... Is it important if it's a duck pond?
The Doctor: Ungh...The method's not done yet. I'm not ready for all this! I'm not done!

So it looks like he's only just regenerated very recently.


Scene 2
The scene involved the Doctor and Amy hurrying up a lane, and running across to the icecream van. Then the Doctor ran off, jumped over the flowerbed at the side of the White House, and ran inside. Amy ran after him, but took the more conventional route through the front gate.

As they came up the lane, the Doctor shouted something about a "cricket bat" and someone thought Amy said something about "12 years of therapy". Someone else reckoned they thought the Doctor said he was having food cravings.

Another line that was heard but unplaced was:
I've got 20 minuets to save the world and the Post Office is closed!


Scene 3
Apparently a scene was filmed where the the sun disappears. Amy was heard to be saying: "What's happening, why's it going dark?"

As well as this scenes were recorded of transfixed extras gazing skyward and pointing their mobile phones.

And it looks like this superb video from Ahremsee fits into this scene:

Doctor: Welcome to the end of life on earth.
Amy: Are you just going to sit there?
Doctor: Why shouldn't I just sit here? Oh, here they come, the human race ... down a video phone ... I saw it and I missed it!
Amy: You told me you had a time machine.

Scene 4
Towards the end of the shoot, the crew changed the local clock to 11.30

The new scene they were filming (although a short one) has been reveled to be scene 43

They filmed a zoom close up of Matt. The camera was on a track and they pushed it towards Matt quite quickly. It stopped just short of him and after a few minutes he put on a shocked/panicked face and jumped to one side out of camera shot:

And thats it!
Another interesting point noticed was that there was also an unknown doctor in scrubs and a fireman with a large dog (called 'Bolsey') who weren't ferried away like normal extras. So perhaps they have a larger part in the episode.

You can see more AMAZING photos here:
Alun.Vega's Flickr account
Mugim0e's Flickr account
Scooty's Photobucket account
SFX.co.uk

A HUGE thanks to Alun.Vega, Scooty, ahremsee, Eeeyun, ParadoxMachine, Thal Footsoldier, PMount, JTimmy and everyone else who reported. I salute you!

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

And shes definitely a policewoman and not a stripper or going to a hen night... apparently

How do you know?

Walter said...

Wow, that skirt really is... short.

Not complaining.

Anonymous said...

I'm gonna sound like a right doofus but you know the clipboard, where does it say episode 1?

Walter said...

Yeah, I say with a short skirt like that, she might not be portraying a real police officer. Unless all female police in England wear those kind of outfits (which makes me want to visit, if that's that case.)

Then again, this is the fantasy world of Hollyw.... err, the BBC.

Joy said...

What is the flag, if it's not Scotland? Alternate universe/timeline?

Cosette said...

You make a good point, Walter.
I hope she is a policewoman, but I don't want her to be like Gwen. LET'S HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

Joy said...

Also - it looks like she's carrying a gun. I thought British police didn't (e.g. Jack having to teach Gwen how to shoot).

I can only IMAGINE what the Doctor would say to that!

Kevo said...

I sort of hate that this series is being called Series 1.

Joy said...

If she's 20 or so - and indeed a police officer and not in some kind of costume (and she's been in 12 years of therapy from encountering a monster in her house), she's very different. She's probably a comparative newbie on the force, unlike a more experienced Gwen, plus being a policewoman in a small town/village is undoubtedly very different than being one in a big city like Cardiff.

(The Doctor will probably mention Gwen in passing, though. On the other hand, was he ever told Gwen was a police officer?)

Anonymous said...

Joy said...

"What is the flag, if it's not Scotland? Alternate universe/timeline?"

*snigger*... LOL !

Anonymous said...

Why is the scene done over & over again?

Charles said...

Joy-- the flag is an English flag. Same universe, different part of Great Britain.

Anonymous said...

Maybe she just lost her pants.

Cosette said...

To Joy (after I stated my first comment)...
I bet the Doctor would say either "Oh. Please don't carry that around."
OR
"If we're doing this, throw that gun away."

Unknown said...

I really look forward to all this and do not protest to anything, except the fact that they're calling it Series 1.

Why call it Series 1? It isn't the first series. It's Series 5, not 1. I'm certainly going to continue calling it Series 5.

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