Interview with producer of XMen-2 : CaptionKit HyperTranscript


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Guy Dyas (production designer) speaking about the making ansd sets used for XMen-2
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Speaker	Caption
Guy Dyas
	Hello, I'm Guy Dyas
	and er, I'm the production designer on the X-Men 2.
	My job is to conceptualise the overall look of the film.
	There are something like 68 sets, in total.
	In this film, the X-Men actually sort of go out into the world
	and interact with other humans
	so there was a lot of leeway to expand upon the original vision of the first film.
	So this is Magneto's plastic prison.
	The set is about twenty square feet, its not very big at all.
	There are a number of props and pieces of furniture here,
	to sort of help sell the idea that we really are in a plastic world
	So, here we are in the metal detection area.
	This space has been conceived to act as a transition
	between where Magneto is held
	and the outside world which goes on beyond its wall.
	And so the set needed to have this, almost 2001 feel about it
	and it really is the last sort of effort to make sure that
	there's absolutely no metal on people before they go in to visit Magneto.
	We're here on the set of the White House.
	we're currently in the Oval Office.
	Over here we have a replica of the Presidential desk.
	err , which has actually been hand made for the show.
	If you look up, you can see we don't actually have a ceiling.
	This was a requirement for the stunt crew, who will be coming here and doing some amazing things.
	And you'll notice some of the mouldings, we have an 'X' up here
	which actually does exist (sniggers) in the real White House.
	And we're here today at the X-Mansion set, on the bank of the studios.
	We have a sequence of events where
	er the children are surprised in their beds and attacked
	and er need to escape.
	So built into the set, we have a number of secret passages.
	And down at this end where they're currently shooting
	we have a stunt wall, where a couple of guys are gonna come
	flying through that wall.
Sound effects
	Crash!
	Crash
	Loud explosion

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