"We're on set with the cast and crew of Doctor Who as an old enemy surfaces and threatens the earth." "The Silurians are back." "# I'm not your number one enemy I'm not your number one enemy... #" "You are beautiful. they've evolved at such a quick and brilliant rate." "# I'm not your number one enemy... #" "Action." "AMY SCREAMS Amy!" "It's got my legs!" "getting sucked through the earth." "one of the scariest things." "The most scary stunt I've done." "And we exclusively reveal as we follow the making of an episode from the edit suite to broadcast." "one." "take one." "The Doctor's back and in the mood to take his courageous companion somewhere exotic..." "or so he thought." "Rio!" "'The Doctor thinks he's taking'" "Rory and Amy to Rio." "Rio!" "Behold!" "And actually ends up in a Welsh mining town in the future." "Action!" "What's in here?" "'Meets a group of people who are drilling down' to the centre of the earth." "someone else is drilling up." "Who are you?" "What are you doing?" "And what are you wearing?" "I dressed for Rio!" "please?" "immediately when the Doctor' he knows something's not right." "he's off and running." "and then all the holes and things..." "Is there two holes or one?" "and then you all move back." "Then there's one there..." "'We are filming a scene where strange things are happening 'and the Doctor walks into' this scene where the earth starts moving." "You need to get out of here very fast." "Why?" "Look at the screens." "Look at your readings." "It's moving." "What is?" "Is this steam a good thing?" "Shouldn't think so." "It shouldn't be shifting." "What shouldn't?" "And the floor begins to rumble!" "THEY GASP moving." "But how?" "Why?" "cos it's only happening under here. a bit of wobbly-earthquake acting!" "You grow up watching it on Doctor Who and Star Trek and everyone seems to do it at one point or the other!" "Ah!" "Get back!" "# It's the sound of the underground" "# The beat of the drum goes round and round" "# Into the overflow" "# Where the girls get down to the sound of the radio... #" "Get back!" "THEY GASP" "Get back." "Get back!" "INAUDIBLE cos he's got spindly legs and he can sort of move about a bit more than me." "HE LAUGHS" "# The sound of the under Sound of the underground. # in the very first draft' out of the holes came enormous creatures." "Big lizards that roll into balls and spin around and attack you." "I thought it was the best idea ever." "but partly to do with budgetary things we couldn't afford to have two monsters. beginning of Episode Nine. and there's no greater fear than the fear of the hole in the ground." "and...action!" "And it doesn't take the Doctor long to work out who has been creating these holes." "Cold blood..." "I know who they are! it was about making sure we reinvent Silurians for 2010." "which was based on the original television series in which the Silurians appeared." "It was a seven-parter in John Pertwee's first year." "and then is because the glimpses that you get and the...uncertainty is fantastic." "Doris!" "Doris!" "What do you want?" "Get on to the police." "Tell them there's something in my barn." "What sort of something?" "Some sort of freak!" "I saw it move in the hay." "woman!" "SNARLY BREATHING" "Aaaghh!" "There's a lot of great moments in that first Silurian story." "Hello." "Are you a Silurian?" "I think they're very fixed in every fan's memory." "I think they're brilliantly created by a terrific writer called Malcolm Hulke." "He wrote a number of really classic stories for John Pertwee's Doctor." "What was it like?" "Reptilian." "Biped." "Completely alien species." "And it didn't attack you?" "Liz!" "These creatures aren't just animals!" "They're an alien life form as intelligent as we are." "And I think the great thing about the Silurians is they're not just they're a species with a purpose." "DISTORTED VOICE:" "We were here before man." "We ruled this world millions of years ago." "I really wanted to honour what Malcolm Hulke had created in the first place." "I'm sorry to burst in on you like this." "So what do your people want?" "wait." "Wait!" "Wait!" "This planet is ours!" "We must destroy them." "# I've been so evil with my constant invasions" "# But you made it so easy for me" "# You always rise to the occasion... #" "INAUDIBLE" "The apes have become dangerous." "They must be destroyed!" "# Go back to the start Back to the start... # and television's moved on and audiences have moved on." "So Steven's instruction was absolutely feel free to reinvent the Silurians and make them important now." "in a way." "but we didn't want them to be particularly and therefore it was right that their characteristics were very recognisable to us." "Tasked with the job of creating this new look who had a few ideas of their own." "We did actually jump ahead and we started to do a few designs based on the original Silurians. but also I wanted them to have credibility as characters." "RASPY BREATHING" "You are beautiful." "So they did actually want to have more of the actor's expressions being able to come through the appliances." "So we then went back with the idea of having more of the lizard design built up on the back of the head." "And to then work forwards and keep the appliances on the face quite thin. and I think there's a chance of making each individual Silurian a bit more idiosyncratic and having their own traits. they always start off initially with some artwork. this head cast is the start and the basis of everything we build up." "the back section of the make-up." "we make a mould from that and then we can start on the face." "# Saving my face Saving my face... # which is a material we use for generally doing old-age make-ups. which would help just kind of soften the whole look a bit." "it's all stuck on... but it's all stuck on to her face. it all moves with it." "And she's got these scales that move around." "that's amazing." "Instead of actually listening to what they're saying." "I'm the last of my species." "No." "You're really not." "and I know how it sits in a heart." "So don't insult me." "they're getting picked up at half past five in the morning and having make-up for five hours." "But they are just utterly captivating." "I'm just about to put a little skin barrier on for her delicate little skin!" "The whole thing really is still because there's quite a lot of little intricate things with doing her eyes and colouring her eyes little bits of airbrushing in the colours so they match." "four and a half hours?" "wasn't it?" "!" "It felt like 15 hours!" "yes. quite challenging. cos your ears are all covered. it's quite an odd feeling to talk as well." "You've got to be a bit more warmed up in you're the lips and voice." "And just got to commit to everything and go for it!" "It's great fun!" "# It's not easy being green" "# Having to spend each day in the colour of the leaves" "# When it could be nicer being red" "# Yellow or gold or something much more colourful like that" "# Like that it's not easy being green" "# You're sick of blending with so many ordinary everyday... #" "I've got really used to it now. and you had to work out if your face would work the same way I've actually had a weird moment" "Where's my skin?" "like I should have it on." "I've had it on so much." "But when you look in the mirror it feels brilliant." "It's so much fun." "you've never seen the actor apart from their picture." "You only know them as a lizard! because it's incredibly believable." "they're going to have green scales all over them. and you really start to buy into it. and then I bumped into her the other day when she didn't have her make-up on." "I don't know who you are." "And then it clicked eventually! because we just use our real faces and they use pretend faces that look amazing." "it was really weird seeing her." "I never imagined you to..." "You've got real skin!" "Remnant of a bygone age on Planet Earth." "lovely mode of travel." "Geothermal currents projecting you up through a network of tunnels." "Those tunnels presented a "hole" new set of challenges for the crew to overcome. and he's scrabbling away and then suddenly he's just pulled back." "the holes and the floor." "The first thing we had to do was to... we wanted that big store room 'to match the industrial feel of that dilapidated coal mine." "'We scoured every warehouse and empty building for these holes' and we finally found this warehouse in a steelworks that had an old mechanic's pit in it." "So today is the disappearing of some of the main characters through the floor." "And what we've got in there is a special rig in order to give the impression they're being sucked down. and I've constructed a framework containing one of these so when the artist goes through with the soil and everything" "it forms around the artist." "'It looks like the floor is actually sucking them through the floor." "' just going into a void." "a-digging this hole" "# A hole in the ground So big and sort of round it was digging it deep" "# It was flat at the bottom and the sides were steep" "# When along comes this bloke in a bowler" "# Which he lifted and scratched his head" "# "Do you mind if I make a suggestion?" "dig it elsewhere" "# "You're digging it round and it ought to be square" "# "The shape of it's wrong It's much too long" "# "And you can't put a hole where a hole don't belong eh?" "# Nearly bashed him right in the bowler there we were discussing this hole" "# A hole in the ground So big and sort of round it was" "# It's not there now The ground's all flat" "# And beneath it is the bloke in the bowler hat!" "# And that's that. # getting sucked through the earth." "God love her." "Was it fun down there?" "It's just like a little hole." "Quite scared now!" "I've just been shown the device that's going to be used underground. and I kind of have to hold my breath and go under the soil." "it should be an experience." "It's kind of like being born." "That's what it feels like!" "That's a new analogy!" "Through the womb!" "that's what it looks like!" "was the word." "'And that's the first time I've felt like that doing a stunt." "I've never felt so scared' so I'm going to use it in the scene. it was genuine fear!" "And turning over." "Here we go." "And action." "AMY SCREAMS Amy!" "It's got my legs!" "Don't let go." "Never." "I've got you." "OK." "Don't let go." "now!" "What's going on?" "It's pulling me down!" "I'm not going to let you go." "It's pulling me down!" "Its pulling me!" "Stay calm." "Keep hold of my hand." "Hold on." "Tell Rory... no!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No...no..." "It was definitely the most scary stunt I've done." "it is." "Happy birthday!" "CHEERING AND CLAPPING" "I was 27.'" "They gave me a lovely sort of caricature cartoon of myself." "look!" "Look at that!" "thanks." "It's really nice." "Everyone's been so lovely." "ALL: # Happy birthday to you!" "dear Matt Happy birthday to you!" "# that's lovely." "Thank you." "Hooray!" "They gave me some lovely presents and made it really lovely for me. unquote." "is that lunch now?" "ALL SHOUT:" "Yes! there is still an enormous amount of work left to do." "I don't think any show on television goes through the transformation that Doctor Who does in its post-production." "first thing that gets done is I jump into the edit suite and we start to put things together." "The job of the editor is to go through all the material which then goes into making a good show." "finding out what the nitty gritty of the story is and getting down to that and quite a number of versions." "Where's Rory?" "went to put it back." "he knows we're up here." "This is the scene now that we cut out." "I wanted to ask... wasn't it?" "'And obviously we're looking at a running time of about 45 minutes." "more or less a quarter' of all the stuff we'd shot in the two weeks we get given to shoot it. and pull that stuff out." "future us." "right?" "That happens?" "We get a happy ever after?" "As things stand in this time stream." "so things might change." "'That particular scene was quite long." "'And they'd actually shot it in a very nice' as they walked away." "And it just went on for too long." "Bottom line." "we were over length anyway." "I see your point." "I like him." "A lot." "It was a lovely scene." "I loved the colours in it and the look of it and I thought Karen and Matt were brilliant 'and it was a really nicely-written scene." "we wanted' we wanted to find out what the next step was." "a minute and a half of screen time wasn't particularly relevant to the plot." "but it wasn't relevant to the story." "it had to come out." "It's a bit difficult controlling your nerves when the night before your wedding goes on for months!" "Especially when the cold's getting at you - did I mention?" "Dressed for Rio!" "As soon as we're kind of happy within the time restraints we have sometimes." "And they then give us feedback." "we went through how many versions?" "Was it 13 versions?" "so that we're all working towards making the strongest programme." "What do we do now?" "That process takes three or four weeks. it's split everywhere. where they add all the computer-generated images." "the Silurian city is revealed. which is one of the main areas of work we do on Doctor Who to create environments that don't exist. and we will then go and set about creating the under-earth city of" "to try and match the concept that's been approved." "Aside from making the large majority of the visual effects we also grade the programmes as well. adding the kind of look and balancing out all the colour in the picture for an episode." "So what we have here is an end sequence in the TARDIS." "we have this shot..." "The next shot is ungraded - that's straight out of the camera - and then this shot is graded." "So my job now is to make this scene here fit in with the other shots around it." "and if I just put some contrast in first and just make the picture start to look a bit more interesting." "Maybe this is about right." "But the problem we've got now we can't really see them." "I can start drawing shapes on the screen there. and wondering how quickly this is responding." "cos I don't want anybody to see what I've done." "So using some of these tools here." "So we can now run that." "to make sure it looks OK." "It's starting to feel right." "I can see what's going on." "The point of this shot is they're coming in. so we can change it an awful amount." "So we can just sort of play this now." "Do we like it?" "Do we think this is going to say the right thing?" "I think we could probably go with this." "I'm in my nightie." "the sound boys and girls and we sit and we watch the entire episode and we decide what sound effects we want where and what those sound effects should be." "Sound is incredibly important in Doctor Who. it's metal corridors or it's stone corridors. and we have to replace all the physical sounds for the whole programme." "It's basically replacing everything to add to the finished product and for when it's sold to other countries and the dialogue's removed and their own language is dubbed on." "I'm the sound effects editor on Doctor Who." "I love it when you make that noise... # that we put in to the shown." "you have to create atmospheres to make you believe you're in these locations. all the additional bits that the sound didn't exist on location." "I add all those in." "# I'm a sucker for your sound" "# And I love it when you're loud" "# I'm a sucker for your sound" "# You know I'm playing with you now... #" "when a character gets dragged down by the Silurians... oh!" "Oh!" "Aaaah! because it doesn't actually make very much noise on its own. and that sort of enables you to get more volume out of it." "SCRAPING NOISE he took the TARDIS with him. and with the regeneration comes a new set of sounds." "Out has gone the creaky door for the TARDIS." "He's finally oiled it after all these years!" "because I've got access maybe." "So I've got a sound in there that is one of the background sounds that was used in the '70s and '80s." "This is what it sounds like all together..." "HOLLOW WHIRRING" "That's the old Radiophonic sound." "It's just one element." "DEEPER WHIRRING but I know it's there." "That's it by itself again now. a specially-created sound for a TARDIS door." "So what we do is we're just sort of adding the physical..." "an extra element." "So if the Doctor touches it... and just something for the latch on it that will go with the other effects and be mixed together in the dub." "that was quick. because we may not have access to it." "sometimes things don't make the sound you expect them to." "but you want it to make so you have to add to it or just improvise." "PLASTIC CLATTERING Can't be." "It is!" "It's you two!" "No... we're here." "How can we be up there?" "# I'm a sucker for your sound" "# And I love it when you're loud" "# I'm a sucker for your sound" "# You know I'm playing with you now... #" "Sonic! which has got lots of nice clicky bits on it." "It's good for the handling. just to make it easier to use." "HIGH-PITCHED SQUEALING Hear that?" "CLICKING AND CLATTERING Afterwaves of a recent seismological shift... all the beeps and technical sounds will be put on afterwards." "So it's just for the handling." "doesn't actually make a sound." "no." "THRUMMING" "It would get in the way of the dialogue." "I put the sonic screwdriver sound in here and I use this synthesiser." "I will make a new sound." "I can make it maybe..." "HIGH-PITCHED WHIRRING" "A bit higher frequency." "I'll bend the sound..." "TONE WAVERS it doesn't sound like he's moving it around." "Restricted access." "No unauthorised personnel." "Mmm." "HIGH-PITCHED WHIRRING" "That is breaking and entering!" "What did I break?" "Sonic-ing and entering." "Totally different." "METALLIC CLATTERING AND BANGING" "That was great!" "We just missed Amy's hand on the gate." "One of the best parts of the job is you know that millions of people are watching it." "I remember doing the stomping sound for the Cybermen." "HEAVY METALLIC THUMPING stomp." That's my sound! Doctor Who's that big." "It's that good. with a wider nose and more prominent chin." "But sounds effects aren't the only audio added to the episode." "the programme goes off to an audio describer." "Audio description is basically an additional narrative track for blind and visually-impaired viewers." "It basically gives a whole extra layer of detail. we watch the programme bit by bit and find spaces in the dialogue that we think could do with an added layer of descriptions." "visually-impaired viewers the full experience." "It's very different from something like EastEnders." "EastEnders might have 40 descriptions and you're going you've got a whole array of things to describe." "it's quite a challenge. right up to the most elaborate creatures that you come across. many eyes." "All that sort of thing. because that's part of the charm of Doctor Who. it's off to the Broadcast Centre for transmission." "here we go... #" "A tape will be delivered in from various sources." "It will be put into the flexicarts and we will then start to record on to our system." "it goes to Television Centre." "it then goes to the BT Tower." "it goes into your homes." "here we go!" "# which today is a Doctor Who trail. and we're going to run it with a continuity announcement as we would the programme when it goes to air." "one - cut. five... here's a sneak preview for a new series of Doctor Who. ..one." "Cut." "Who are you?" "I'm the Doctor." "Doctor who?" "I'm looking forward to sitting at home and watching it as a viewer." "Nothing beats the experience of actually seeing it go out live." "It's extremely exciting." "we will actually still be working on the series." "We don't finish the series until about three weeks before we start the next series. but we will certainly sit down and enjoy it." "they can't transmit the episode where the Doctor and Nasreen are looking at the situation." "Because some of our party have been kidnapped because this is my dream. and now I might get a chance to see it. and you want me to stand back while you head into it?" "I don't think so!" "I don't have time to argue!" "so's crossing the road." "come on. the walking through the front of the TARDIS and finding the palace inside!" "Action." "Very precious." "No way!" "But...but that's..." "This is..." "Oh!" "Fantastic!" "What does it do?" "Everything." "that barricade won't interfere..." "Whoa!" "Oh...my God! we have to use a little bit of low-tech with a fishing line and pulling and shaking of things to make it look like it's being shaken about." "if you're shaking it gives away the fact the TARDIS isn't being shaken." "We tie fishing line onto them and feed them round to different parts of the set." "We've got people pulling on the fishing lines to shake these pipes." "It gives the illusion that the whole TARDIS is being shaken." "Can you keep it up for rehearsal and after rehearsal is that all right?" "I'm just worried it's going to pull off wherever it's attached." "The only problem we had there was that we had to raise one of the pipes up out of the way to the highest point we could get to on the balconies." "So I had to go up onto the gantry and tie it off and pull it up vertically out of the way. to grab the fishing line and pull it up." "Action." "# Out of control... # landing on a very hard Perspex floor. but I shall show them with pride." ""Got this from the TARDIS." "Oi!" "Where are we? they soon find out that they may have bitten off more than they can chew!" "Ah." "Maybe more than a dozen." "Maybe more like an entire civilisation. face down a whole civilisation of Silurians?" "very different episode." "Everything could change." "And maybe it will." "Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd" "E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk"