Hi. l'm Amanda. Welcome to my behind-the-scenes video.
MGM gave us cameras, asked us to film stuff.
lt's a little scary, but l hope you like it.
lt's a look at the wacky, wild and wonderful family
that make up Stargate SG-1
and some of the fun and frivolity we have behind the scenes.
And work! The work that we do. We do a lot of work.
Hope you enjoy it.
(Amanda) The entrance into the Stargate studios.
Agh!
Everyone hides when they see me coming!
Here we are backstage. Stargate.
Oh, here we go.
(hums Stargate theme)
lt's a little dark in here but you can get the idea.
Back there is, of course, the control room.
We're going down one of the hallowed halls of the SGC
into the control room.
The star map.
Earth.
These don't work. See.
l turned on the lights.
l wonder if l can start up the Stargate?
Oh, look at that!
Another set of stairs up to the briefing room.
Lots of...
Lots of bells and whistles.
There's a water cooler. More bells and whistles.
lt is 5.30 in the morning.
We are on location in Cloverdale.
- Look, it's Amanda! - lt's Susan Wardrobe,
coming to give me my clothing.
- Hi, Sue. - Hi.
Here's our circus. The circus in the mud.
OK. Lunch hour on the set of Stargate SG-1
on location in Cloverdale, British Columbia.
Here's Michael Shanks. Michael Shanks, everyone, going for lunch! Whoa!
Look at these beautiful people. Look at their amazing costumes.
They look sort of Amish.
These are all of our background performing artists, waiting for lunch.
l'm gonna take you to Catering.
Here we are at the lunch truck.
Richard Dean Anderson, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, my God.
l'm gonna show you what kind of food we get here on Stargate. You'll be amazed.
Wow, salads!
l see a camera.
Michael Shanks, ladies and gentlemen. And he puts it back!
Here is Tracy Westerholm, one of my stand-ins.
A beautiful woman.
Doesn't look at all like me, but she's perfect.
She stands in for me.
Say hi, Trace.
She's having a baby. This is her second baby while working on Stargate.
Bill Nikolai. Richard Dean Anderson's stand-in.
Herbert, Christopher Judge's stand-in.
l'm your favourite stand-in for Teal'c.
(Amanda) He is indeed.
There's Kyle, Michael's stand-in.
Doesn't he look like Michael? Michael's stand-in.
(Amanda Iaughs)
Michael Greenburg, executive producer. Cellphone. Headphones. This is the man.
- A pen for rewrites. - (Amanda) Pen for rewrites.
This is the guy. This is quality-control master.
Or, as we like to call him, the Lord of the ldiots. Cos he rules us.
We're about to do a take.
(director) And...
Here we go.
(Amanda) Notice the reverence in which we approach our craft.
(director) Action, gentlemen.
lt is Ragnarok. Lord Freyr tells us we must prepare for our death.
That's a bit of a negative spin with the old paraphrasing.
That's a bit of a negative spin with the oId paraphrasing.
Does Freyr pIant your crops for you?
Does Freyr plant your cr... crops for you?
Does he?
Does he harvest them? Does he build your homes for you?
Those are the tasks of our own hands.
ExactIy. You've aIways had free wiII before. Why not now?
Why not now?
Maybe this ultimate test... lt's not a test.
Exactly. You've always had free will before.
Why not now?
Maybe this ultimate conflict is just a test of your... ingenuity and courage.
Maybe this uItimate conflict is just a test of your... ingenuity and courage.
And cut!
(Amanda) What a dude.
Action. Cut.
(Amanda) Do your other cut.
And cut.
We're on a planet... on another world, in our universe.
lt's a very festive planet right now.
Come forth. It is a time for rejoicing.
Freyr has sent us visitors from Midgardr.
But things will change as we get deeper into the story.
This is only scene one and it is science fiction. Drama.
But it's a festive Gate with a lot of fruit and flowers and niceness.
(Amanda) Even though it's cold?
We're getting ready to shoot SG-1 coming through the Stargate.
Frosted, which we haven't done since the pilot.
This is our director, Martin Wood. He's showing you the frosting effect.
lt's so cold out here today.
- The magic of special effects. - Yeah.
l'm gonna go and stick my face in the heater now.
Thanks, Martin.
- Boiling wax. - Boiling wax!
So, boiling wax. We get this going here.
lt's actually... lt's hot paraffin.
- (Amanda) Hot paraffin wax. - And they spray it at you.
And you just stick your face in.
Eyes open if you want, but then your eyes'll be frosted, too.
- Does it hurt? - No.
You don't feel it. lt's like sticking your face in a muffler.
Will, our camera operator, is prepared to tumble out of the gate with all of you
as you tumble out of the gate.
(Amanda) Getting ready for the big stunt.
As you know, Carter, when you dialled in this planet,
you did something wrong.
You didn't follow protocol.
Sir, we bypassed some of the normaI diaIIing protocoIs.
The fact is, this pIanet is dying and it's probabIy because of us.
But you can fix it, right?
And you went too close to the sun - well, this sun, whatever this sun is.
And you've caused this whole thing to happen.
Yeah, you. Your character. You did this.
And now you're gonna have to undo it. But you have 42 pages to undo it.
(Amanda) Excellent. Thank you, Michael.
Michael Greenburg, executive producer.
Or, better known as...
(Amanda) The Lord of the ldiots!
Can you explain to us what you're doing? What doing?
We're trying to recreate the interactive of the gate
with 25,000-watt lightning machines,
but we seem to be having trouble with the cable to the generator.
- We're having technical difficulties. - ''Houston! We have a problem.''
l'll sign off for now, but come back when we shoot the stunt.
- Are you gonna do some acting for me? - Yeah, yeah, baby!
(director) And action!
OK! What was that?
(director) Cut!
Action!
Cut!
(Amanda) lt didn't go so well.
(director) Action!
OK. What was that?
Cut!
OK. What was that?
All right. Here we go.
Yahoo!
What was that?
Carter?
Margin of error...
Carter.
We did have to override some of the diaIIing protocoIs in order to get a Iock.
I'II check the diaIIing computer when we get home.
Still there.
Wait! l need that tape.
Rolling!
- Hi. l'm Amanda. Welcome to my... - Smile!
The camera's rolling!
OK, Amanda Tapping intro. Take two. Rolling.
We'll just cut. Amanda Tapping intro. Take three.
We'll just cut.
Have you collected yourself? Are you together?
All right. Amanda Tapping intro.
Take four.
- lt's that that's getting me. - l know, you have to stop doing that.
lt's OK.
Oh, cut.