Editing Prometheus (Stargate) (section)

===Filming and lighting===

The set was fitted with hundreds of fluorescent lights built directly into the walls, ceilings and floors. Director of photography Jim Menard noted that this meant filming could often rely on the practical lighting, "we can shoot with just the ship lighting and then do if you do a close-up you can fix up their shadows on their eyes and things".<ref name="prometheus commentary 4">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Prometheus (Stargate SG-1)|Prometheus]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Dean |first=Rick |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=13:05 |quote=It's an amazing amount of lighting, all these white lights in the tops and the bottoms there; each have to have blue and white light in them and it became hundreds and hundreds of fluorescent lights, some gelled and some white.}}</ref><ref name="unnatural selection commentary 4">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Unnatural Selection (Stargate SG-1)|Unnatural Selection]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Menard |first=Jim |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=6:04 |quote=The hallways are pretty much practical lights which are built into the set. In here [the bridge] we can shoot with just the ship lighting and then do if you do a close-up you can fix up their shadows on their eyes and things.}}</ref> When it first came to filming in the set, director Peter Woeste along with chief lighting technician Rick Dean and directors of photography Jim Menard and Andrew Wilson had to work very quickly on their initial lighting design for ''Prometheus'', only having access to the set from the day before filming commenced.<ref name="unnatural selection commentary 1" /><ref name="prometheus commentary 2" /><ref name="prometheus commentary 3">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Prometheus (Stargate SG-1)|Prometheus]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Wilson |first=First |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=12:30 |quote=we had a few pictures to go by, but myself, and Jim Menard, and yourself as well Peter, all collaborated to get the basic design of the ship down.}}</ref> Wilson and Woeste decided that whilst the ''Prometheus'' was still in the hangar it, as it would be in earlier scenes of the story, it would be under white industrial interior lighting, allowing for some leeway in fully realising the ship's fully-operational look.<ref name="prometheus commentary 9">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Prometheus (Stargate SG-1)|Prometheus]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Dean |first=Rick |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=12:50 |quote=one thing that was to our advantage was that the ship was not supposed to be finished in this shot, it was still under construction, so we had some leeway of stuff, the background lights and the coloured lights of the machinery and that stuff didn't have to be on for this.}}</ref><ref name="prometheus commentary 5">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Prometheus (Stargate SG-1)|Prometheus]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Wilson |first=Andrew |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=13:30 |quote=my concept really was that when the ship was under construction it was under this white industrial light, and then as it gets powered up and ready to fly the lighting conditions change in the ship; a lot of lights that haven't been on previously come on and also some of operational lights, the large ones you see overhead and also at the feet become blue.}}</ref> After its introductory episodes of "Prometheus" and "Unnatural Selection", Menard felt the ship's lighting was a "little bit red, white and blue" and hoped to "get away from that", whilst director Peter DeLuise felt it was "too bright" onboard and along with Woeste wanted to take the look of the ship "darker" and "moodier" for future episodes.<ref name="deluise 1">{{Cite magazine |last=DeLuise |first=Peter |date=March 2003 |title=Season Six Update |magazine=[[TV Zone]] |publisher=[[Visual Imagination]] |issue=Special 50 |page=52 |issn=0960-8230 |quote=One of the challenges with this story was filming the Prometheus. When I'd seen the ship in prior episodes I felt it wasn't as dramatic as it could be. I met with Peter Woeste [director of photography] and explained to him, 'It's too bright inside the ship'. Light in Outer Space is a commodity, and because of this the interior of the Prometheus should be darker and moodier. Peter agreed with me. So in Memento there's an entirely different look to the spaceship. It's very dark with swatches of blue and red in the background, which gives it that aircraft carrier feel. I thought Peter did a great job. |interviewer=Steven Eramo}}</ref><ref name="unnatural selection commentary 5">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Unnatural Selection (Stargate SG-1)|Unnatural Selection]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Menard |first=Jim |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=10:16 |quote=One thing that bugged me was that it was a little bit red, white and blue in there and I'd really like to get away from that.}}</ref> The pair implemented their changes in the episode "Memento", looking to more closely mirror the bridge of an aircraft carrier, relying predominantly on dark-blue lighting with DeLuise believing this could be justified as this was the first time the ship was being depicted as fully-operational.<ref name="unnatural selection commentary 2">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Unnatural Selection (Stargate SG-1)|Unnatural Selection]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Menard |first=Jim |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=1:27 |quote=We had to match pretty much, cause it was a two-parter, but then Peter Woeste has since done another episode and we took the look a little darker. The concept was to be like the bridge of an aircraft carrier, the sort of dark-blue lights so that your eyes are accustomed to the exteriors.}}</ref><ref name="memento commentary 8">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=DeLuise |first=Peter |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |author-link=Peter DeLuise |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=12:58 |quote=The justification for it looking slightly different than how it had looked in previous episodes was that now it is fully operational.}}</ref><ref name="grace commentary 3">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Grace (Stargate SG-1)|Grace]]" |date=3 May 2004 |last=Menard |first=Jim |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=5:37 |quote=Those were the concept drawings I was given; battleships have a blue bridge and we did that in the lighting here - blue in battle mode and then the back half has a little bit of tungsten to contrast it.}}</ref>