1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,792 (narrator) When creative forces behind Stargate SG-1... 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,309 ..adapted the hit movie to television,... 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,637 ..they created endless possibilities for new adventures. 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,513 lt's certainly not Emerald City. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,153 (narrator) One person responsible for dreaming up new worlds and settings... 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,953 ..is Production Designer Richard Hudolin. 7 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,596 When l started the project it was, uh... October, mid-October of '96. 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,837 And l got a call from Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,396 They were gonna start filming in January, but there was this set - 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,229 ..the silo set with the Stargate and the complex and all of that - 11 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,669 ..which was its own design entity. 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,394 So they hired me to do that. 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,954 We had a complete set of drawings. We had 1 5 construction-type people... 14 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:53,392 ..to analyse the set and come back in January and start building it. 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,239 Because we had six weeks to... to build... 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:01,798 ..the main set and everything we shot for the television movie version of Stargate. 17 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:03,399 This is just incredible. 18 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,633 There are traditions to maintain. One is the Stargate. 19 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,436 We try to match the silo and the military complex cos that's the heart of the show. 20 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,154 You're always starting from, or coming to, there. 21 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,955 That's the house, or the home, for the Stargate crew. 22 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,871 At one time l started a set of drawings where the silo has three floors,... 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,956 ..instead of the two that it has. 24 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,073 But we scaled it down and figured out what we'd be shooting,... 25 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,317 ..what we needed, and how to get the best look out of it. 26 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:36,555 Sir! 27 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:41,196 Uh, the key elements obviously are the Stargate itself and how that functions. 28 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:43,276 And, uh,... 29 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,872 ..l flew to LA and l gathered some of the material from the movie... as reference. 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,278 l brought it back here, and our model makers worked from 31 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,551 ..some of the pieces l brought back. l actually integrated... 32 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,593 ..some of the set pieces that l got from Los Angeles... 33 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,790 ..into the... into the pilot. 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,954 (narrator) ln addition to sets in the movie,... 35 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,232 ..Richard designed a medical facility, which can turn into - among other things - 36 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,555 ..Daniel Jackson's laboratory. 37 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,636 There's also a multipurpose room,... 38 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,230 ..used for crew's quarters and... whatever may be needed. 39 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,909 Plus, a second portable Stargate was built for use on location. 40 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:27,592 Because of its size, this gate requires six workers and a full day of setup. 41 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,960 To accomplish the creative demands of scripts,... 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,279 ..an art department works closely with decorators, props and construction crew. 43 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,518 We have to be three to four weeks at least ahead of the shooting crew. 44 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:45,111 And sometimes l walk by and somebody will say ''What are we doing tomorrow?'' 45 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,879 And l don't have a clue because... 46 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,356 ..my art director's looking after the day-to-day things,... 47 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,789 ..as well as working ahead with me. 48 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:56,718 (O'Neill) Love what they've done with the place. 49 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,400 l'm one of the first to get a script. l say... 50 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,195 ..''This is how l see it - this much interior, that much exterior.'' 51 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,710 ''This could be in that, that should be...'' You do a budget as well,... 52 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,276 ..because everybody's interested in what it all costs. 53 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,790 And from that you, uh,... 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,151 ..you determine with the producers... 55 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,068 what it will be - an' with the visual effects guys an' with the model guys. 56 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,909 Sometimes it's better, faster and cheaper to do a visual effect... 57 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,238 ..than to build something. And we design everything that you see. 58 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,480 The art department designs the graphics that you see on a screen. 59 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,593 We design the worlds that somebody may point to, or the matte work. 60 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:42,636 lt's a real collaborative effort. lt's not one person saying it has to be this way. 61 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,716 And it's the only way to survive,... 62 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,638 ..because there's a lot of talented people around. 63 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,910 Someone's been reading Martha Stewart. 64 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,595 (narrator) How does Richard and his team envision new ideas every week? 65 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,316 Some of it's research. Some of it's just imagination. Some of it is, uh... 66 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,355 Uh... well, you read the script and, like l say, you get to talk to talented people. 67 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,109 You talk to the writers and producers, and they're all... 68 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,672 Everybody has their take on what the world should be. 69 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,156 But they look for you to say, ''Do me a drawing of what it is.'' 70 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:21,071 Until it's on a piece of paper, it's in your imagination. And sometimes it's just... 71 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,397 ..it's part of the design process, where... 72 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,990 ..if you let yourself kind of go clear in your mind,... 73 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,511 ..you can let things come to you. lt's how it works with me, anyway. 74 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,835 We're not on a planet, are we? 75 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,590 That is correct. lt appears we are aboard a Goa'uld transport vessel. 76 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,839 l get lots of research, l have everybody in the art department - 77 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,397 ..who are all fabulous and take off in their own direction sometimes - 78 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,957 ..and sometimes we just talk about it and ideas pop out of nowhere. 79 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,868 You could fit every pyramid on Earth inside and still have room to spare. 80 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,956 l wonder how far down that is. 81 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,953 l had a problem: one of the Nox people goes like this and the world appears. 82 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,958 We didn't quite know what this world was gonna be. 83 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,117 We struggled for about a week with it,... 84 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,550 ..and l went home and l was reading a book on stained glass. 85 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,276 And the combination of the Nox people and what l was reading that night,... 86 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,473 ..that's how we put that together. Stained glass turns into another world. 87 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,751 lt's not a stained glass world - that's just an element of it. 88 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,758 So you find clues in the strangest places. 89 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,350 (narrator) Sometimes luck can change locations overnight. 90 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,793 For the episode ''Small Victories'', the story was to be set on a fishing trawler. 91 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,151 Until the producers got access to a real Russian submarine,... 92 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:44,714 ..brought to Vancouver from Vladivostok. 93 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:49,868 lnstead, they shot two days on the sub, and built a replica of its interior. 94 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,831 You'd better blow this thing. 95 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,113 Normally, a television series... you've got offices and police cars and... 96 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,074 There are standard things that you have to do if you are in this world. 97 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,880 We don't do offices, we do worlds. 98 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,959 lt's all... it's really spectacular because it's so different. 99 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,878 lt's a big effort every week. 100 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,956 (Carter) This is well over 1 000m high. 101 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,799 And as pyramids go, that's... big? 102 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,120 Well, the show and the stories themselves are really good. They're exciting scripts. 103 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,109 So you always start with the story, and... and the acting and the actors are great. 104 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,959 Richard Dean Anderson has got his own following. 105 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:40,349 And he's a great guy to be around. He brings a special sparkle to O'Neill. 106 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,596 Which rubs off on us... 107 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,635 ..because every time l go to a set, he comes up and says ''That looks great!'' 108 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,957 - What do you think? - lt's cool. Kinda like Vegas. 109 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,072 Hopefully what you see around him and the worlds he's in... 110 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:01,354 ..is everybody's imagination, showing you things that you've never seen before. 111 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,631 ln a very nice, professional way.