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welcome to the second season of Mars I
am Samuel TV I play rubber for car and
this is the beautiful commenting for
that sand I play doctor a Medici home
and we are in our beautiful studio in
Hungary at court last video which is
like one of the biggest studio in Europe
I think yes it is and also quarter is
named after one of the young Goering
directors from back in the 1920s I
believe our big and beautiful stage yeah
that’s amazing decision is even bigger
than the last season last season was
kind of compacted now we have a big
stage more space and we’re going to show
you some stuff
yeah from Olympus town which is now home
on Mars and as you can see we haven’t a
Martian not a Martian is abortion is
working and oh this look like a rock
yeah Martian rock yeah Martian rock and
also we got some new friends
here Mars this season and are we really
friends I mean I’ve never been invited I
don’t really know them well I would say
this is a perfect time to meet the crew
from Lutron colony let’s go welcome from
Olympus town you are now entering the
Luke Rome colony what’s that nothing
it’s our colony absolutely hi guys my
name is Roxy Steinbeck and I’m playing
Jen Carson in season 2 of Mars my name
is Geoff Heppner and I’m playing
commander Curt her L and season two of
Mars and we represent like we said the
lucra colony and and projecting forward
what’s gonna happen on mars when we get
there at some point we’re gonna have to
turn a profit we’re gonna have to mine
it for its resources and we represent
that that part of the story yep with the
new guys and this is our airbus
so this is where we basically dictate to
the miners out there what we’d like them
to do this is where you and Shep’s
members where I can end this is where
you come on that is green screen out
there that is where the wonderful Mars
will be my surface it’s lovely isn’t it
lovely darling love those green dots
moving on shall we
yes Oh to a room in which we’ve never
shot no we’ve never shot in here but I’m
excited to see what it’s gonna be what
do you think it’s gonna be I think it’s
gonna be what do I think it’s gonna be
or what do I want it to be what do you
want I want it to be the party break I
know so airlock the airlock rooms allow
this broom on set between the loudest
room on set have you had it yeah I was
out there in Palau so between leaving my
surface and entering the Airbus these
little silver things will blow out
carbon dioxide and that will basically
clean us so that we don’t contaminate
the Airbus and when we’re really
actually are on Mars probably not you
and me but real miners this I have a
practical function you know when you’re
out there stirring up different
compounds and dirts and things that we
have no idea really what’s in them yet
until we get there they’re gonna have to
wash it off you spray it off so you
don’t bring it into the colony because
it could could infect it could make
people sick it could screw up the
computers a bunch of stuff I don’t know
anything about yeah it’s a great room
it’s just look and so doors open please
pretty please with a cherry on top oh
look at that you had it it pretty please
oh gosh so there’s no gravity in this
bit so this is where we know just me
just you ah the control room yes this is
where we control things and command them
cuz that’s what I do I’m a commander yes
you coming in with that stuff again you
think it’s funny don’t you no oh it’s
not yeah no seriously though Anna is a
practical function this as a set for
actors is kind of stunning a dream it’s
the whole set we’re often working in
half room
where the walls ripped off and cameras
poked through and when you’re trying to
find an emotional mindset working on
Mars it really helps to have a set like
this that’s complete with heft yeah
feels like we have something to work
with absolutely go pretend on Mars
detail it really is yeah oh and then
here’s the canteen yes couple people
sleeping as you would this is all like
food
chill-out R&R area mm-hmm this is the
one place Olympus has this beat because
they have an actual bar yeah but we’ve
got proper chairs that’s right you’ll
swing it back there bars like garbage
cans tent over where we eat Moss food
right sure yeah yeah sure it’s delicious
can you speak mars yet by the way I can
but I don’t want to show off now but
really from from an actor’s point of
view coming to a set like this where
there are four walls and you can
actually feel like you’re in a control
room it’s really special
what is Steven Patrick the man who
literally wrote the book on how we live
on Mars stepped in here and was just
like this is how it’s gonna look this is
what it’ll be
and that also informs you know how
you’re gonna do your job you’re gonna be
like well this it gives it a sense of
realism mm-hmm and more realism we’re in
the medical Bay yeah and again as a
practical function when people are
mining and doing it heavy industrial
work on Mars it’s dangerous just like it
would be here and even more so because
there’s so many unknowns so there’ll be
a medical bay it’ll be equipped with
doctors and you and obviously and and
the advanced equipment you would need to
take care of somebody when there’s no
real hospital nearby
it’s amazing and I comfortable two
memory foam guys I hope you’ve enjoyed
our tour of the Luke creme colony and
you can now go back to Olympus town not
quite as fun and feel free to enjoy a
virtual tour but we’re not gonna be here
anymore yeah I’m done but um yeah I hope
you’ve enjoyed our tour here at Calder
Studios in Budapest Hungary hungry are
you hungry
okay let’s go have lunch see ya see ya
bye such an easy job I think I’ve done
it would like place it it’s not funny it
Oh get our doors open please
pretty please with a cherry on top and
now we’re in the control room in Olympus
and with special guests yes we have one
of the creative genius behind this
wonderful set mr. Adrian Smith
how are you sir pleasure to have you
with us you want to introduce us to your
cohorts your friends here yes yes on my
right here I have Thomas Lothian who is
one of our art directors in charge of
the luck room set and all things
scientific been a great resource and
design of the whole set here and on my
left who’s James morale who is in charge
of all the special props and has been
doing some sterling work some fantastic
work that’s great now if you guys have
any questions that you want to find out
about this limb for style command center
or any any of the other places you’ve
seen you should please write in and
we’ll be able to answer your questions
to the best of our abilities I have a
question for you specific you guys
decided to like create a look from
colony cooler than our colony well we’ve
been here on this planet for nine years
oh my god I don’t want to be in your
shoes buddy yeah I mean you guys do you
guys work for you know government
agencies so yeah there’s this there’s a
bit of kind of taxpayer money involved
you can’t be looking to be too
comfortable here but you know the
money’s gone in where it counts you know
the money’s gone into things like the
lab and look Rome is a private owned
company exactly you know so we you know
this is the control center as you guys
can see we’ve got little screens that
they’ve added this season it’s a lot
bigger than last season by
away it’s it’s small you know it’s more
beautiful you guys have done a great job
I would love for you guys I also want to
share with our fans out there if you
could tell us some of this stuff and on
the screen if you want to you know
elaborate well basically we’ve designed
this is the control center for all the
operations yes
Olympus town this is where commander
Hannes song this is our desk that’s mine
by the way
because I’m only a doctor well no you’re
not only a doctor you have your own
medical Bay which we’re gonna go to
later but yes and around you you see the
various functions of the control center
we’ve got our nuclear power plant
monitoring system over there the water
generation system over there
communications system there and also the
sort of fuel processing system the
background there and this is all kind of
coordination controlled by the character
Hannah’s character yes so we’ve got our
question from our audience what kind of
experts did you consult to come up with
all these futuristic equipment well good
question the first thing is you
basically we we lead that kind of that
search so we look into a lot of papers
from NASA a lot of papers from all sorts
of sources as well and then one of the
main things we then do is we we run it
past our specific tech experts who
Stephen who you know as I say wrote the
book and then also um Bobby Brown who’s
who’s one of our specific experts as
well and I really like this question it
says did you take any influence from pop
culture sci-fi for your set designs
no not specific because this is very
unusual project in terms of design
because we are actually designing for
real science or projected real science
so rather than usually where it’s just
your imagination
is just unlimited here we’re actually
turning projected real science but
trying to make it look interesting and
exciting visually
alright we’ll take one more question and
I would like to ask you this what is it
like acting on a set that completely
surrounds you well you you feel like you
dive in I mean it’s so much easier for
us to have like specific things on the
screens and like everything is so
detailed and and true we are surrounded
and we are it’s very round
there’s something very homey feel that
it is it is it’s it’s quite you know
it’s it’s not like my house but I feel
comfortable and everything is so
detailed
everything is so precise the corridors
that are like endless so it’s easy to
get lost I mean but thank you for that
guys because it’s it’s very healthy
nurse because in between action and cut
I really do believe then that I’m an
astronaut on Mars and that you know um
so it’s great thank you for that I know
why don’t we you since you guys have
asked questions you see some of these
faces why don’t we take you to show you
the video of the design process of what
these guys came up with and let’s check
it out these are some of the common
spaces that we’ve designed for Olympus
town this is the bass throat garden area
that’s designed as a recreation area for
the people that living in Olympus town
interestingly the bar and all its
contents we from elements that have been
recycled things like the bar itself is
actually an element a fairing from
original
ship that came and delivered the stuff
to Mars plants planted with a very
minimal watering system because
obviously in water is very precious on
Mars and the pathways you see they’re
all created from regolith which is
reconstituted Marjan terrain that’s so
the idea is that everything has been
recycled and reused and the whole thing
is covered over with a very large dome
that actually give you the sort of sense
of being enclosed now the corridors
these are used or re reused we’ve
recycled them ourselves from the first
series they’ve been updated they’ve had
new lighting system new graphics
additional pipe work it’s very much
being and that you know we try to
actually give the sense that there has
been life here in this corridor system
for the last sort of nine years so
there’s a lot of detail there of ageing
and giving it a sense that it has
actually been lived in rather than a
brand-new environment welcome to martyrs
lab this is one of the other spaces here
Mars on on our set this is actually one
of the biggest labs this is one of the
biggest spaces actually on this set I
think and you built it and I built it I
did I mean he’s character building not
handler thing not him I’m looking at
Martha’s samples from Mars I mean I
shouldn’t do it too much now like this
are some of the findings of some of the
stuff that she found while on the Mars
surface trying to find possibility of
life on Mars and you know as you can see
in this petri dish I don’t know what
that is blue cheese from friends blue
cheese from friends no no I wouldn’t
know I don’t think so I mean this is
some like scary looking thing I don’t
know what this is but I’m gonna put it
down cuz Marta is very particular about
her stuff also this is called a DNA
sequencer Wow Wow we’ve got it
and I think James can tell us what it’s
for what what he actually does I’m gonna
actually take you guys over here and
show you this DNA sequencer and can you
help us out kind of I hope the fans and
tell us what this is what what he does
but obviously at the end of the first
season they had discovered microbial
life on Mars and one of the major things
that you’d need to do in that situation
is beginning to understand exactly how
that creature came to be on that planet
and what it’s made of and finding its
genome I’m beginning to find whether or
not it has any similarities with life on
Earth it would be incredibly important
yeah and I have another question for you
because over there I see a weird blue
silver machine recreation electron
microscope which is one of the most
sensitive devices we have to look at the
atomic structure of something to
actually get down and look at you know
how its molecules made and to find out
you know exactly how these creatures are
constructed what they’re made of at a
complete you know subatomic level it’s
really beautiful hey Julia its rebirth
of Mars now this is just to show you how
big this place is
I mean it’s this is the second level of
this lab and it’s built by Tom what
about creative geniuses will design this
lab and also build the look from our
colony could you tell us a little bit
about this the stage this lab well the
the main thing actually that you’ve sort
of stumbled on by walking up there when
you’ve got a dome like that a dome is a
very very strong structure the idea is
that it’s made of big segments of
regolith Crete on the outside so it’s
actually 3d printed using
regolith from the surface but you have
this big geodesic dome and a problem
with the geodesic dome is you’ve got
this huge amount of space at the top
which is completely wasted and when
you’re on the on mars and air is
precious you don’t want to be filling a
huge dome with air and not using it so
the second story actually gives you kind
of makes it a bit more efficient in that
you’re you’re using all the pressurized
space in that dome rather than just
everyone being down on the ground level
I’m needing them twice as many domes now
we have a question for one of our
audience members what kind of science is
supposed to be happening in this lab
I’ll field that one basically they are
the sequencing the genome of the
bacteria that they found beginning of
the first season they’re finding out
exactly what it’s made from is it a
common base life on my castle is it
based on silicon can interact with our
biochemistry does it pose a threat is it
toxic can they even make it breed when
they find it it’s been in hibernation
for who knows how long and they’re
attempting to discover exactly what
circumstances led to it being below the
surface of Mars and we’ve got another
question here what are some of the
actors favorite props you can answer
that well my favorite props will be my
favorite bar which we’re gonna get to
later on my favorite prop it’s probably
the EDS ooh I love that the helmet
oh yeah the BVA suit the season is
amazing it’s totally different from last
season and helmet by the way which is
all designed by a wonderful Katherine
Harris Caroline heiress excuse me
on their note I think that we should
probably have a look at the personal
spaces now yes these are some of the
personal spaces in the Olympus town
this is Javier’s workshop next to the
Hydra room and as you can see there’s a
lot of dressing very kind of complicated
equipment that Xavier as an engineer has
and we’ve researched that quite
thoroughly a lot of very specialist
tools that have been we’ve created to
actually kind of use on Mars and just
through the door there you can see the
equipment that we’ve designed that it’s
based on a recreation of a water plant
that will actually be used in space on
Mars it’s a very interesting kind of use
of the dome or the two domes actually
join merge together really this is
Xavier and Amelia’s habitation joint
habitation again what we’ve done is
joined two of the smaller domes together
and as you can see there’s quite a lot
of built-in furniture that’s been
designed to actually fill fill and fit
into the dome shape and there are a
certain element of personal personal
things for the various kind of
characters we are very limited to how
much we can actually you know how much
you can actually take to Mars so each of
these items is very precious and there
are very kind of carefully chosen as
part of the decoration of this sets and
welcome to my kingdom my medical lab
yeah
I’m a doctor and the therapist here so
we’ve got some a doctor I think he’s
doing me wrong doctor
okay I did a good checked oh okay so we
show you we have a super futuristic
scanner I can see pretty much whatever
Sammy has been doing for the last 24
hours
for 48 hours sorry so can you help us
guys like talking about this
multifunctional scanner looking at what
current medical technology is doing and
that you know engineers and doctors are
trying to incorporate all the different
diagnostic equipment that we currently
have into one machine so we started off
looking at ways that you could have a CT
scanner an x-ray machine a cat scan and
ultrasound and general diagnostic sort
of you know machine in a reasonably
compact sort of piece of equipment that
you could conceivably ship to Mars
because at the moment you know the size
of a real entire room and just for one
of these machines but in 20 or 30 years
time you know you better put it in a
shipping crate and send it halfway
across the solar system
now what I want to know is what does
this machine do what what is what is he
used for this that I believe is grafting
could you explain to the audience what
this what it does yeah you’ve got back
there is medical 3d printer which can
either print things like casts and
sprints for broken bones or be
reconfigured to print you know a
biological scaffold for growing skin
grafts or you know even some you know
soft tissues you know for any kind of
injury burns whatever you could possibly
face if you listen here they could print
it out absolutely yeah they could cream
too in 3d an ear or like some tissue
well what you do is you the idea is that
you’d print
scaffold which you then seed with stem
cells from you know the patient’s own
body and then you would you know culture
new tissue new skin on it and then you
could actually transplant it onto yeah
that patient now we’ve got a question
from our audience what elements of a
real lab are represented here quarantine
think decontamination or the pretend
safety features well we have a
quarantine room over there and and also
like all the medical stuff that we
actually need and I think it looks quite
good and the lab works pretty well I’m
saving lives it’s you saving lives you
sit in our lives
oh no no why don’t we good to be why
don’t we show you guys the design
process for this ok the design process
generally starts with the script reading
the script and meeting with director and
producer and from that as a production
designer you start to produce very loose
mood boards and conceptual designs and
part of the process then is actually
refining these they then get passed on
down into the art department to the
various kind of art directors who then
start to refine your designs part of the
process then is to start creating some
of the specific props on a show like
this a lot of the items in it are based
on real science and have to be accurate
in terms of not only the science but the
way they look and in this you can see
James is trying on a 3d printed arm cast
that has been created and the
by the 3d printers you can see them
there we’ve got three of them there that
just been working 24/7 right the way
through the production producing some
amazing 3d parts and we’re in the
workshop here the pot workshop and you
can see they’re one of the specialized
props we created it’s a very interesting
and future bound prop that works well
within the whole story
well welcome this is actually my
favorite place because I designed it he
built it and with my my colleague Ivo
Delgado and I would say we did an
amazing job this is yeah and that Lucan
calling me they don’t have that they
don’t have a bar no they don’t have a
bar oh now no we’re gonna take some
questions yeah I think which is a very
good question that says do they
manufacture all the equipment on Mars or
do they get it from Earth I think it
will be expensive to bring the equipment
from or items from from Earth so we have
to manufacture all this stuff that you
see around here and also to give you a
good example of that is if you look at
some of this come with me if you look at
some of these trays they actually
recycle trays use as a tabletop also
this is like dust bins and we just got
creative and everything that you see
here is recycled and stuff that we we
found from here so we actually told the
green up here and what about what we
drink well the drinks are also like made
from like for example one of my favorite
drink is a potato vodka which I made and
basically everything at the bar you do I
I did it I mean you know and also we
have refined a little distillery back
there and we also make our own beer yeah
Mars beers Mars beer show me the way I
have a question for Adrian and the boys
do you think that it would be possible
to have to make wine here to have a
vineyard here on Mars well we’re going
to look at the local videos next week
see we’ve been fine you know why no mods
let’s take a couple of questions one of
them someone says how often do
characters come to the bar well as often
as possible I don’t I don’t I’m very
serious
yeah right you know we got it we got to
take time off from doing research and
doing the work and I think what a
perfect place to come and relax as you
can see it it’s big and we’ve got a dome
and also Adria and I believe there’s a
way that we can turn it into date
daylight and also bring the night time
to it as well yes the Olympus town is
actually at the bottom of a lava tube
underground and the idea is that the
dome is actually has an integrated
lighting system which gives an
artificial daylight and then can be
turned off evening and night alright
that’s done I think we should plan some
karaoke nights I think that would be
really nice and someone asked are the
plants on Mars real yeah well basically
that’s what we trying to do we’re trying
to tell from this planet to make it
habitable we want to be able to plant
vegetables and grow our own vegetables
and and and plants and and to be able to
make our own food and and recycle use
recycled items and and that’s basically
what we’re doing building this colony
and I’ve got another question what’s the
most and I think it’s for you Adrian and
the boys what’s the most fanciful or
sci-fi part of your designs hmm probably
the probably the bit you’re in I really
love my hab we have yet I mean we’ve got
a great have with
king-size bed well I haven’t seen it so
I can’t say I wasn’t invited oh let’s
see one more question we’ve answered
that let’s see the pen yes we just
answer that let’s see what else oh you
know what those are time to have a
favorite drink yeah you just said that
my favorite my family my favorite drink
is the potato vodka you know and I make
everything back there so if you ever
ventured to Mars please come to my bar
all kinds of drinks there are all kinds
of concussion out here you know I’ve
basically the brain of the olympus town
to be honest with you
you want to come on he’s not is not
we’re all together we are trying to be
one brain and that’s on that no we want
to thank you guys for joining us on this
wonderful tour hope you guys enjoyed it
as much as we did and see you in 2018
2018 spring of 2018 season to a Mars is
gonna be even greater than the first
season because there’s so much more to
see there’s so much more to experience
and it’s it’s cinematic it’s amazing we
have a great new cows that just join the
show and it’s it’s it’s a thrilling ride
and we want to invite you to join us so
thank you very much for being a part of
this and we hope to see you in 2018 in
the spring
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[Music]
welcome to the second season of Mars I
am Samuel TV I play rubber for car and
this is the beautiful commenting for
that sand I play doctor a Medici home
and we are in our beautiful studio in
Hungary at court last video which is
like one of the biggest studio in Europe
I think yes it is and also quarter is
named after one of the young Goering
directors from back in the 1920s I
believe our big and beautiful stage yeah
that’s amazing decision is even bigger
than the last season last season was
kind of compacted now we have a big
stage more space and we’re going to show
you some stuff
yeah from Olympus town which is now home
on Mars and as you can see we haven’t a
Martian not a Martian is abortion is
working and oh this look like a rock
yeah Martian rock yeah Martian rock and
also we got some new friends
here Mars this season and are we really
friends I mean I’ve never been invited I
don’t really know them well I would say
this is a perfect time to meet the crew
from Lutron colony let’s go welcome from
Olympus town you are now entering the
Luke Rome colony what’s that nothing
it’s our colony absolutely hi guys my
name is Roxy Steinbeck and I’m playing
Jen Carson in season 2 of Mars my name
is Geoff Heppner and I’m playing
commander Curt her L and season two of
Mars and we represent like we said the
lucra colony and and projecting forward
what’s gonna happen on mars when we get
there at some point we’re gonna have to
turn a profit we’re gonna have to mine
it for its resources and we represent
that that part of the story yep with the
new guys and this is our airbus
so this is where we basically dictate to
the miners out there what we’d like them
to do this is where you and Shep’s
members where I can end this is where
you come on that is green screen out
there that is where the wonderful Mars
will be my surface it’s lovely isn’t it
lovely darling love those green dots
moving on shall we
yes Oh to a room in which we’ve never
shot no we’ve never shot in here but I’m
excited to see what it’s gonna be what
do you think it’s gonna be I think it’s
gonna be what do I think it’s gonna be
or what do I want it to be what do you
want I want it to be the party break I
know so airlock the airlock rooms allow
this broom on set between the loudest
room on set have you had it yeah I was
out there in Palau so between leaving my
surface and entering the Airbus these
little silver things will blow out
carbon dioxide and that will basically
clean us so that we don’t contaminate
the Airbus and when we’re really
actually are on Mars probably not you
and me but real miners this I have a
practical function you know when you’re
out there stirring up different
compounds and dirts and things that we
have no idea really what’s in them yet
until we get there they’re gonna have to
wash it off you spray it off so you
don’t bring it into the colony because
it could could infect it could make
people sick it could screw up the
computers a bunch of stuff I don’t know
anything about yeah it’s a great room
it’s just look and so doors open please
pretty please with a cherry on top oh
look at that you had it it pretty please
oh gosh so there’s no gravity in this
bit so this is where we know just me
just you ah the control room yes this is
where we control things and command them
cuz that’s what I do I’m a commander yes
you coming in with that stuff again you
think it’s funny don’t you no oh it’s
not yeah no seriously though Anna is a
practical function this as a set for
actors is kind of stunning a dream it’s
the whole set we’re often working in
half room
where the walls ripped off and cameras
poked through and when you’re trying to
find an emotional mindset working on
Mars it really helps to have a set like
this that’s complete with heft yeah
feels like we have something to work
with absolutely go pretend on Mars
detail it really is yeah oh and then
here’s the canteen yes couple people
sleeping as you would this is all like
food
chill-out R&R area mm-hmm this is the
one place Olympus has this beat because
they have an actual bar yeah but we’ve
got proper chairs that’s right you’ll
swing it back there bars like garbage
cans tent over where we eat Moss food
right sure yeah yeah sure it’s delicious
can you speak mars yet by the way I can
but I don’t want to show off now but
really from from an actor’s point of
view coming to a set like this where
there are four walls and you can
actually feel like you’re in a control
room it’s really special
what is Steven Patrick the man who
literally wrote the book on how we live
on Mars stepped in here and was just
like this is how it’s gonna look this is
what it’ll be
and that also informs you know how
you’re gonna do your job you’re gonna be
like well this it gives it a sense of
realism mm-hmm and more realism we’re in
the medical Bay yeah and again as a
practical function when people are
mining and doing it heavy industrial
work on Mars it’s dangerous just like it
would be here and even more so because
there’s so many unknowns so there’ll be
a medical bay it’ll be equipped with
doctors and you and obviously and and
the advanced equipment you would need to
take care of somebody when there’s no
real hospital nearby
it’s amazing and I comfortable two
memory foam guys I hope you’ve enjoyed
our tour of the Luke creme colony and
you can now go back to Olympus town not
quite as fun and feel free to enjoy a
virtual tour but we’re not gonna be here
anymore yeah I’m done but um yeah I hope
you’ve enjoyed our tour here at Calder
Studios in Budapest Hungary hungry are
you hungry
okay let’s go have lunch see ya see ya
bye such an easy job I think I’ve done
it would like place it it’s not funny it
Oh get our doors open please
pretty please with a cherry on top and
now we’re in the control room in Olympus
and with special guests yes we have one
of the creative genius behind this
wonderful set mr. Adrian Smith
how are you sir pleasure to have you
with us you want to introduce us to your
cohorts your friends here yes yes on my
right here I have Thomas Lothian who is
one of our art directors in charge of
the luck room set and all things
scientific been a great resource and
design of the whole set here and on my
left who’s James morale who is in charge
of all the special props and has been
doing some sterling work some fantastic
work that’s great now if you guys have
any questions that you want to find out
about this limb for style command center
or any any of the other places you’ve
seen you should please write in and
we’ll be able to answer your questions
to the best of our abilities I have a
question for you specific you guys
decided to like create a look from
colony cooler than our colony well we’ve
been here on this planet for nine years
oh my god I don’t want to be in your
shoes buddy yeah I mean you guys do you
guys work for you know government
agencies so yeah there’s this there’s a
bit of kind of taxpayer money involved
you can’t be looking to be too
comfortable here but you know the
money’s gone in where it counts you know
the money’s gone into things like the
lab and look Rome is a private owned
company exactly you know so we you know
this is the control center as you guys
can see we’ve got little screens that
they’ve added this season it’s a lot
bigger than last season by
away it’s it’s small you know it’s more
beautiful you guys have done a great job
I would love for you guys I also want to
share with our fans out there if you
could tell us some of this stuff and on
the screen if you want to you know
elaborate well basically we’ve designed
this is the control center for all the
operations yes
Olympus town this is where commander
Hannes song this is our desk that’s mine
by the way
because I’m only a doctor well no you’re
not only a doctor you have your own
medical Bay which we’re gonna go to
later but yes and around you you see the
various functions of the control center
we’ve got our nuclear power plant
monitoring system over there the water
generation system over there
communications system there and also the
sort of fuel processing system the
background there and this is all kind of
coordination controlled by the character
Hannah’s character yes so we’ve got our
question from our audience what kind of
experts did you consult to come up with
all these futuristic equipment well good
question the first thing is you
basically we we lead that kind of that
search so we look into a lot of papers
from NASA a lot of papers from all sorts
of sources as well and then one of the
main things we then do is we we run it
past our specific tech experts who
Stephen who you know as I say wrote the
book and then also um Bobby Brown who’s
who’s one of our specific experts as
well and I really like this question it
says did you take any influence from pop
culture sci-fi for your set designs
no not specific because this is very
unusual project in terms of design
because we are actually designing for
real science or projected real science
so rather than usually where it’s just
your imagination
is just unlimited here we’re actually
turning projected real science but
trying to make it look interesting and
exciting visually
alright we’ll take one more question and
I would like to ask you this what is it
like acting on a set that completely
surrounds you well you you feel like you
dive in I mean it’s so much easier for
us to have like specific things on the
screens and like everything is so
detailed and and true we are surrounded
and we are it’s very round
there’s something very homey feel that
it is it is it’s it’s quite you know
it’s it’s not like my house but I feel
comfortable and everything is so
detailed
everything is so precise the corridors
that are like endless so it’s easy to
get lost I mean but thank you for that
guys because it’s it’s very healthy
nurse because in between action and cut
I really do believe then that I’m an
astronaut on Mars and that you know um
so it’s great thank you for that I know
why don’t we you since you guys have
asked questions you see some of these
faces why don’t we take you to show you
the video of the design process of what
these guys came up with and let’s check
it out these are some of the common
spaces that we’ve designed for Olympus
town this is the bass throat garden area
that’s designed as a recreation area for
the people that living in Olympus town
interestingly the bar and all its
contents we from elements that have been
recycled things like the bar itself is
actually an element a fairing from
original
ship that came and delivered the stuff
to Mars plants planted with a very
minimal watering system because
obviously in water is very precious on
Mars and the pathways you see they’re
all created from regolith which is
reconstituted Marjan terrain that’s so
the idea is that everything has been
recycled and reused and the whole thing
is covered over with a very large dome
that actually give you the sort of sense
of being enclosed now the corridors
these are used or re reused we’ve
recycled them ourselves from the first
series they’ve been updated they’ve had
new lighting system new graphics
additional pipe work it’s very much
being and that you know we try to
actually give the sense that there has
been life here in this corridor system
for the last sort of nine years so
there’s a lot of detail there of ageing
and giving it a sense that it has
actually been lived in rather than a
brand-new environment welcome to martyrs
lab this is one of the other spaces here
Mars on on our set this is actually one
of the biggest labs this is one of the
biggest spaces actually on this set I
think and you built it and I built it I
did I mean he’s character building not
handler thing not him I’m looking at
Martha’s samples from Mars I mean I
shouldn’t do it too much now like this
are some of the findings of some of the
stuff that she found while on the Mars
surface trying to find possibility of
life on Mars and you know as you can see
in this petri dish I don’t know what
that is blue cheese from friends blue
cheese from friends no no I wouldn’t
know I don’t think so I mean this is
some like scary looking thing I don’t
know what this is but I’m gonna put it
down cuz Marta is very particular about
her stuff also this is called a DNA
sequencer Wow Wow we’ve got it
and I think James can tell us what it’s
for what what he actually does I’m gonna
actually take you guys over here and
show you this DNA sequencer and can you
help us out kind of I hope the fans and
tell us what this is what what he does
but obviously at the end of the first
season they had discovered microbial
life on Mars and one of the major things
that you’d need to do in that situation
is beginning to understand exactly how
that creature came to be on that planet
and what it’s made of and finding its
genome I’m beginning to find whether or
not it has any similarities with life on
Earth it would be incredibly important
yeah and I have another question for you
because over there I see a weird blue
silver machine recreation electron
microscope which is one of the most
sensitive devices we have to look at the
atomic structure of something to
actually get down and look at you know
how its molecules made and to find out
you know exactly how these creatures are
constructed what they’re made of at a
complete you know subatomic level it’s
really beautiful hey Julia its rebirth
of Mars now this is just to show you how
big this place is
I mean it’s this is the second level of
this lab and it’s built by Tom what
about creative geniuses will design this
lab and also build the look from our
colony could you tell us a little bit
about this the stage this lab well the
the main thing actually that you’ve sort
of stumbled on by walking up there when
you’ve got a dome like that a dome is a
very very strong structure the idea is
that it’s made of big segments of
regolith Crete on the outside so it’s
actually 3d printed using
regolith from the surface but you have
this big geodesic dome and a problem
with the geodesic dome is you’ve got
this huge amount of space at the top
which is completely wasted and when
you’re on the on mars and air is
precious you don’t want to be filling a
huge dome with air and not using it so
the second story actually gives you kind
of makes it a bit more efficient in that
you’re you’re using all the pressurized
space in that dome rather than just
everyone being down on the ground level
I’m needing them twice as many domes now
we have a question for one of our
audience members what kind of science is
supposed to be happening in this lab
I’ll field that one basically they are
the sequencing the genome of the
bacteria that they found beginning of
the first season they’re finding out
exactly what it’s made from is it a
common base life on my castle is it
based on silicon can interact with our
biochemistry does it pose a threat is it
toxic can they even make it breed when
they find it it’s been in hibernation
for who knows how long and they’re
attempting to discover exactly what
circumstances led to it being below the
surface of Mars and we’ve got another
question here what are some of the
actors favorite props you can answer
that well my favorite props will be my
favorite bar which we’re gonna get to
later on my favorite prop it’s probably
the EDS ooh I love that the helmet
oh yeah the BVA suit the season is
amazing it’s totally different from last
season and helmet by the way which is
all designed by a wonderful Katherine
Harris Caroline heiress excuse me
on their note I think that we should
probably have a look at the personal
spaces now yes these are some of the
personal spaces in the Olympus town
this is Javier’s workshop next to the
Hydra room and as you can see there’s a
lot of dressing very kind of complicated
equipment that Xavier as an engineer has
and we’ve researched that quite
thoroughly a lot of very specialist
tools that have been we’ve created to
actually kind of use on Mars and just
through the door there you can see the
equipment that we’ve designed that it’s
based on a recreation of a water plant
that will actually be used in space on
Mars it’s a very interesting kind of use
of the dome or the two domes actually
join merge together really this is
Xavier and Amelia’s habitation joint
habitation again what we’ve done is
joined two of the smaller domes together
and as you can see there’s quite a lot
of built-in furniture that’s been
designed to actually fill fill and fit
into the dome shape and there are a
certain element of personal personal
things for the various kind of
characters we are very limited to how
much we can actually you know how much
you can actually take to Mars so each of
these items is very precious and there
are very kind of carefully chosen as
part of the decoration of this sets and
welcome to my kingdom my medical lab
yeah
I’m a doctor and the therapist here so
we’ve got some a doctor I think he’s
doing me wrong doctor
okay I did a good checked oh okay so we
show you we have a super futuristic
scanner I can see pretty much whatever
Sammy has been doing for the last 24
hours
for 48 hours sorry so can you help us
guys like talking about this
multifunctional scanner looking at what
current medical technology is doing and
that you know engineers and doctors are
trying to incorporate all the different
diagnostic equipment that we currently
have into one machine so we started off
looking at ways that you could have a CT
scanner an x-ray machine a cat scan and
ultrasound and general diagnostic sort
of you know machine in a reasonably
compact sort of piece of equipment that
you could conceivably ship to Mars
because at the moment you know the size
of a real entire room and just for one
of these machines but in 20 or 30 years
time you know you better put it in a
shipping crate and send it halfway
across the solar system
now what I want to know is what does
this machine do what what is what is he
used for this that I believe is grafting
could you explain to the audience what
this what it does yeah you’ve got back
there is medical 3d printer which can
either print things like casts and
sprints for broken bones or be
reconfigured to print you know a
biological scaffold for growing skin
grafts or you know even some you know
soft tissues you know for any kind of
injury burns whatever you could possibly
face if you listen here they could print
it out absolutely yeah they could cream
too in 3d an ear or like some tissue
well what you do is you the idea is that
you’d print
scaffold which you then seed with stem
cells from you know the patient’s own
body and then you would you know culture
new tissue new skin on it and then you
could actually transplant it onto yeah
that patient now we’ve got a question
from our audience what elements of a
real lab are represented here quarantine
think decontamination or the pretend
safety features well we have a
quarantine room over there and and also
like all the medical stuff that we
actually need and I think it looks quite
good and the lab works pretty well I’m
saving lives it’s you saving lives you
sit in our lives
oh no no why don’t we good to be why
don’t we show you guys the design
process for this ok the design process
generally starts with the script reading
the script and meeting with director and
producer and from that as a production
designer you start to produce very loose
mood boards and conceptual designs and
part of the process then is actually
refining these they then get passed on
down into the art department to the
various kind of art directors who then
start to refine your designs part of the
process then is to start creating some
of the specific props on a show like
this a lot of the items in it are based
on real science and have to be accurate
in terms of not only the science but the
way they look and in this you can see
James is trying on a 3d printed arm cast
that has been created and the
by the 3d printers you can see them
there we’ve got three of them there that
just been working 24/7 right the way
through the production producing some
amazing 3d parts and we’re in the
workshop here the pot workshop and you
can see they’re one of the specialized
props we created it’s a very interesting
and future bound prop that works well
within the whole story
well welcome this is actually my
favorite place because I designed it he
built it and with my my colleague Ivo
Delgado and I would say we did an
amazing job this is yeah and that Lucan
calling me they don’t have that they
don’t have a bar no they don’t have a
bar oh now no we’re gonna take some
questions yeah I think which is a very
good question that says do they
manufacture all the equipment on Mars or
do they get it from Earth I think it
will be expensive to bring the equipment
from or items from from Earth so we have
to manufacture all this stuff that you
see around here and also to give you a
good example of that is if you look at
some of this come with me if you look at
some of these trays they actually
recycle trays use as a tabletop also
this is like dust bins and we just got
creative and everything that you see
here is recycled and stuff that we we
found from here so we actually told the
green up here and what about what we
drink well the drinks are also like made
from like for example one of my favorite
drink is a potato vodka which I made and
basically everything at the bar you do I
I did it I mean you know and also we
have refined a little distillery back
there and we also make our own beer yeah
Mars beers Mars beer show me the way I
have a question for Adrian and the boys
do you think that it would be possible
to have to make wine here to have a
vineyard here on Mars well we’re going
to look at the local videos next week
see we’ve been fine you know why no mods
let’s take a couple of questions one of
them someone says how often do
characters come to the bar well as often
as possible I don’t I don’t I’m very
serious
yeah right you know we got it we got to
take time off from doing research and
doing the work and I think what a
perfect place to come and relax as you
can see it it’s big and we’ve got a dome
and also Adria and I believe there’s a
way that we can turn it into date
daylight and also bring the night time
to it as well yes the Olympus town is
actually at the bottom of a lava tube
underground and the idea is that the
dome is actually has an integrated
lighting system which gives an
artificial daylight and then can be
turned off evening and night alright
that’s done I think we should plan some
karaoke nights I think that would be
really nice and someone asked are the
plants on Mars real yeah well basically
that’s what we trying to do we’re trying
to tell from this planet to make it
habitable we want to be able to plant
vegetables and grow our own vegetables
and and and plants and and to be able to
make our own food and and recycle use
recycled items and and that’s basically
what we’re doing building this colony
and I’ve got another question what’s the
most and I think it’s for you Adrian and
the boys what’s the most fanciful or
sci-fi part of your designs hmm probably
the probably the bit you’re in I really
love my hab we have yet I mean we’ve got
a great have with
king-size bed well I haven’t seen it so
I can’t say I wasn’t invited oh let’s
see one more question we’ve answered
that let’s see the pen yes we just
answer that let’s see what else oh you
know what those are time to have a
favorite drink yeah you just said that
my favorite my family my favorite drink
is the potato vodka you know and I make
everything back there so if you ever
ventured to Mars please come to my bar
all kinds of drinks there are all kinds
of concussion out here you know I’ve
basically the brain of the olympus town
to be honest with you
you want to come on he’s not is not
we’re all together we are trying to be
one brain and that’s on that no we want
to thank you guys for joining us on this
wonderful tour hope you guys enjoyed it
as much as we did and see you in 2018
2018 spring of 2018 season to a Mars is
gonna be even greater than the first
season because there’s so much more to
see there’s so much more to experience
and it’s it’s cinematic it’s amazing we
have a great new cows that just join the
show and it’s it’s it’s a thrilling ride
and we want to invite you to join us so
thank you very much for being a part of
this and we hope to see you in 2018 in
the spring
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