The Doctor Who 50 years trailer is a sixty-second television trailer which promoted "The Day of the Doctor", the fiftieth anniversary special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Filmed across two days in a studio, it stars Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, with multiple other actors providing images and poses of the key characters, over whom features of the original actors would be placed. The trailer premiered on BBC One on 19 October 2013.
| Agency | Red Bee Media |
|---|---|
| Client | BBC Wales |
| Language | English |
| Running time | 60 seconds |
| Product | |
| Release date(s) | 19 October 2013 |
| Directed by | Matt Losasso |
| Music by | String and Tins[1] |
| Starring | |
| Production company | Red Bee Media |
| Produced by | Carrie Hart |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Official website | http://bbc.co.uk/doctorwho |
Summary
editThe sixty-second trailer features a 3D bullet time sequence through a frozen landscape filled with images from the show's history, including the Doctor, many of his companions, and enemies, as well as a multitude of props from the show's episodes.[2] During this, the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) narration talks about him running "all my lives". The trailer ends as the Doctor reveals the day that he's been running from: "The Day of the Doctor".[3]
Filming and production
editRed Bee Media, which had previously produced trailers for Doctor Who such as the 2008 campfire trailer, conceived the basic outline for the 50 years trailer, to emphasise the fact that "The Day of the Doctor" would be shown in 3D. Major elements of the trailer were recorded on 15–16 August 2013, at Black Island Studios in London. During filming, actors were hired to pose as the key characters, over whom the features of the original actors would be placed. The actors were:[4]
- Andy McInnes as the First Doctor
- Stephen Rose as the Second Doctor
- Jon Crowley as the Third Doctor
- Paul Hughes as the Fourth Doctor
- Nic Zabilowicz as the Fifth Doctor
- Chris Laurens as the Sixth Doctor
- Jim Ewan as the War Doctor
- Robert Ratajczak as the Ninth Doctor
- Josh Sutherland as the Tenth Doctor
- Jan Hoffman as the Eleventh Doctor
- Ami Kandel as Clara Oswald and Sarah Jane Smith
- Robert David Cashin as the Master
- Natalie Wood as Rose Tyler
- Bella Sabbagh as Donna Noble
- Naomi Delrme as Amy Pond
- Valona Irons as Martha Jones
- Joseph Paxton as the policeman
- Michael Pearson as the soldier and the Dalek victim
The images of Matt Smith (Eleventh Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) were captured on 2 September 2013 in London, while Smith's narration was recorded on 5 October.[4] Many of the camera movements were recreated in the software Flame. To do this, the cameras were tracked and stabilised, before being recreated into a stable camera movement. This stable movement allowed the inclusion of more subtle references from the show.[1]
The still of William Hartnell (First Doctor) is the first image of the actor to be presented in high-resolution colour. To create the image, director Matt Lossaso sourced a black-and-white image from the episode The Web Planet (1965), and spent hours placing elements from a double over the top of the original still in Adobe Photoshop to manipulate the image to colour. Following this, Framestore visual effects supervisor Oliver Bersey added slight edits, before adding subtle 2D manipulations to give a 3D effect. Bersey also created a matte painting of the vast landscape that appears at the end of the trailer.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Doctor Who 'The Day of the Doctor - 50 year trailer'". Framestore. October 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ Hamburger, Ellis (20 October 2013). "BBC's 'Doctor Who' 50th anniversary trailer is filled with hidden Easter eggs". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ Dowell, Ben (19 October 2013). "Doctor Who: Fans react to the dazzling Day of the Doctor trailer". Radio Times. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ a b Pixley, Andrew (August 2014). "The Day of the Doctor". Doctor Who Magazine. Vol. The Year of the Doctor: The Official Guide to Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary, no. Special Edition 38. Royal Tunbridge Wells: Panini Comics. p. 12.