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Production GuideSpecial effects art for the episode The Testament of Arkadia.
This page covers the Eagle landing on Arkadia. Johnny Byrne's script specified the use of the clip from Another Time, Another Place (adding the direction "Editor please flop" - i.e. reversed left for right). This had probably been agreed in a script conference. Brian Johnson notes "match roughly to ATAP".
The other note from Brian - "Y.Haze" (yellow haze)- indicates the Arkadia atmosphere. The reason is to match the pallid yellow sky of Earth in the Another Time, Another Place clip. All the SFX shots (see below) have a blue sky, and the direction is not on the Cyril Forster storyboards. Was the matching sky forgotten, or did they prefer consistency with the other blue sky shots in this episode? Whatever the reason, it created a small continuity error.
Two shots of the Eagle in the Arkadia sky were not used. Scenes 31 is crossed out, and does not appear in the episode- neither does scene 30.
Scene 26.
Pan right to left across planet surface
up to the red sun
- dawn -
Scene 26a.
Glaring sun from which an Eagle appears
Scene 27a.
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Eagle skimming over the planet surface The landscape full of petrified trees.
The Eagle lands (scene 34), and the recycled matte shot from Another Time, Another Place (scene 36). In the Network Blu-ray release, the sky has been coloured corrected from yellow to blue.
