WEDNESDAY 5 July, 2023. SFX is standing on the set of the Remembered TARDIS completely new to us at this point, though readers will have seen our previous Tales Of The TARDIS set report before that first hit iPlayer in November.
Confused? No, we're completely oblivious at this point all that is still to come. We don't even know that the scene we're watching being filmed literally has the Doctor, Ruby and Mel running from the now-titan god Sutekh. That's coming via greenscreen and VFX over a year later which you'll have recently seen in the season finale, "Empire Of Death".
"It's a strange set up," producer Vicki Delow tells us, explaining that there are "various TARDISes" involved in today's filming, which is taking place in different studios. Wolf Studios, as we've probably mentioned before, is like an airport hanger. It even has actual roads and pavements inside.
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The Remembered TARDIS, however, is minute by comparison, sitting at the end of a huge space. "The thing about the Remembered TARDIS is it's a very, very small set, very claustrophobic, and we want it to feel like that," director Jamie Donoughue explains. "But the practicalities of filming something like that are quite tricky a lot of the time.
"So we're constantly balancing away and people will see it on screen, and go, 'Oh it looks great. But what they don't realise is we've not just got three actors in there. We've got a load of crew, we've got camera equipment, everything. So every little move is like a huge dance we have to create in there. So that's the challenges within it.
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