(plays ''taps'')
Cameras don't just record things.
They change what they record simply by being there.
l came by to give this back to you.
l'm not gonna use it.
Colonel Jack O'Neill.
Teal'c.
Sergeant Connie Smith.
Major lan Hules.
Senior Airman Simon Wells.
''Heroes'' started out as an entirely second-unit episode
starring Saul Rubinek and a few other local characters.
l shot it entirely on the base, in our standing sets, as an effort to save money.
We had the idea of shooting a few extra scenes and making it into a two-parter.
Well, l'll be damned.
The idea being that we want to do a big tracking dolly shot
with other SG team members,
and then we gradually pick up SG-1 in the foreground,
so we have two or three layers of our SG team members travelling right to left
to ultimately hunker down and take cover with Dixon and the other guy.
Then we'll blow some stuff up, lots of people firing guns.
Al-kesh flying overhead. Gliders.
We're gonna run four cameras. We've got the main A and B cameras on dolly tracks.
One running on a wide 24 or 27mm perspective.
Our second camera will be following O'Neill on a tighter lens perspective,
probably a 50, or maybe as tight as an 85.
We also have a third camera, which is gonna be
a tight two-shot of Carter and Teal'c and those background two rocks.
The final fourth camera is gonna shoot the explosion.
We got a 104-foot trench in the back that we've loaded with 50 mortars.
So we should have a wall about 130 feet wide and 80 feet high.
We got some air rams over there. They're gonna be blowing up through the trees.
We got stunt guys running and falling and shooting.
- (man) Effects is hot. - (man #2) Everything's hot. Roll sound.
- (man #3) Rolling. - (man #4) Rolling!
Track seven to five advancing.
- Hi, Jack. Thanks for coming. - l was told you said there were six Jaffa.
Where'd you learn to count?
Ships didn't start coming down till you radioed you were through the gate.
They're throwing this party in your honour.
(man) Cut! Everybody OK?
(whooping and clapping)
Anything to say about the 150th episode?
Have we gotten any residuals yet?
150 episodes with this guy.
l'm never gonna retire. With this market? l'm never gonna retire at 55.
They pick the shortest person on this set and load her up with the most gear.
Here's Lara, our guest script supervisor for the day. How's it going, Lara?
Good, good, good. lt's busy, busy, busy.
ls it weird shooting a scene like this, given what's going on in the world?
- Actually, it is, kinda. - lsn't it?
Staff blast in the stomach. Must not hurt too bad. You're standing up.
l'm very, very strong.
- Are you guys both from Vancouver? - Toronto.
l've come to Vancouver to act in Stargate.
We have a highway in the background.
Big Lou. Steady.
- Low mode, 45° shutter. lt'll be great. - What does that 45° shutter do?
lt almost gives it a picket-fence type effect.
When the camera pans, the frames are very different from each other
because it's a small shutter angle. The frames are further apart on the film.
So whenever the camera moves, it gives a stuttering effect.
Fraiser's in the field. She's doing her thing.
You all set, Lou?
And... action!
Now.
Man down over here!
There's a lot of blood coming from underneath him.
l'll cover you up on this ridge.
- l'm Dr Janet Fraiser. Can you hear me? - Yeah.
l'm shot bad. l can't move. l can't feel my leg.
l need more time to stabilise this patient.
- He can't be moved yet. - Go without me. Leave me.
Nobody is going anywhere.
- Egg salad. - Adam Baldwin, behind the scenes.
Egg salad. Cool.
This is the egg-salad branch of the DVD.
l really like war movies.
Mint?
ls there a screen direction on the Jaffa guy? You want him coming...?
- O'Neill looks right. He comes right to left. - Correct.
O'Neill just sees a sketchy Jaffa through the trees.
Which is enough to draw his attention to it.
But start it enough that we could cut into it
where it's just a sketchy something in the trees and we're not sure what.
So this is a close-up, high-speed, on Rick.
OK. Ready? Everybody's hot? We're all set?
And... action!
- What happened? - Please.
l know at least one person was injured. All l want to say is...
Look, leave me alone. And shut that damn thing off!.
ENHOH