Before And After: Mark's Station

A great deal of time was devoted to the production design of Mark's station, relative to Morgan's station. There is necessarily a lot more going on there than at Morgan's station. The idea behind Mark's job is that he is the man in charge of monitoring the Melting Pit, and for adding more plastic when it gets too low on plastic to process. The monitoring station consists of a desk and a computer console, and various dials and knobs and technical manuals. And then of course there is the unfathomable melting pit operating nearby.

Here is a video detailing the location before production design had occurred.



Here are some pictures detailing the set after a good amount of production design had occurred.

This is the melting pit. You can see light spilling out behind it from two Mickey Mole lights connected to a DIY dimmer switch box, which enabled the lights to be slowly cycled in brightness to create an undulating glow effect.


Brad Makes some adjustments to the Melting Pit.


Morgan directs.


The DVX100A shows what it sees.


Morgan laughs with resolution.


The Panasonic DVX100A is unphased and resolute in its superiority, realizing that we are subservient to it and require it to capture the things we have created for our movie: sets, actors, performances, story, believability, et cetera.


Morgan realizes this and is afraid.


The melting pit monitor is not worried, and continues to pump out its numbers indicative of temperature.


Suddenly the DVX100 goes mad and shoots Brad autonomously.


Thankfully Dan the unicorn has the presence of mind and fortuitous will to save the day. Dan is a unicorn who came to factoryland a long time ago, and has been altered in the way that this place affects all who come here. He wears a flimsy disguise around and grinds his horn down so as to not be detected by his mongoosian fellows. Little does Morgan know, Dan has a secret weapon for him.


Morgan the director and Ron the Mongoose (a.k.a. Phillip Roebuck) comment on the hilarity of this situation.