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📝There were a number of scenes in Eric set on a subway carriage, not just scenes with people, but also one featuring our giant puppet monster, Eric.

Director @forbesforbes and I knew that would make filming the scenes a challenge.

In 1980’s New York the subway carriages were covered in graffiti and mess. We tried to get hold of a real subway carriage in our time shooting in NYC, but we were not allowed to add graffiti to it in anyway if we were going to show it on TV (which of course we were!).

So we ended up building our own carriage, during our time in Budapest, on top of a gimbal so that we could rock it around mid-take. Outside the carriage we added banks of LED screens. And on these screens we showed real footage of the real NYC subway, which I took on my iPhone on the scout.

We also added a number of ARRI Sky Panels to push light into the carriage, these were pixel mapped and fed a sample of the same video as the screens.

Gaffer Zsolt “Hofi” Hoffer can be seen here sitting in for me during the prelight!

Credits:
Lucy Forbes director @forbesforbes
Olly Taylor as Eric
@theollytaylor
Eric costume by
@stitchesandglue
Alex Holmes production designer
@mralholmes
Gaffer Zsolt “Hofi” Hoffer
Grip
@kecskemetidavid
VFX supervisor
@jeanlouisautret