LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2019
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we would have some weather issues in January (we did). They
wanted me to look into a large indoor space like the old Georgia
Dome to turn into a super stage. However, there were a lot of
practical challenges to creating that set. Bringing in all of the
moon material would be very costly. Trucking in all the gravel and
sand would have taken weeks and countless dollars to achieve
the correct look, not to mention that there was no availability
in those venues for the amount of time we would need. Damien
was very insistent that the set had to exactly match the archival
footage (down to the shadows the sun cast), particularly since
the moon landing is one of the most well-documented events in
history.
Scouts Oshi Nightbird and Melanie Manning had great images
of a quarry in Juliette, Georgia, that got the production designer
really excited about the possibilities of building the moon in a
practical location. The search quickly turned to a quarry where
we could get a large amount of space that provided the scope
of the moon. We landed at the Vulcan Quarry in Stockbridge.
They had a large plot of land next to the quarry that used to
be their old plant site. It had these enormous concrete pillars
that they were planning to demolish, and the quarry manager
agreed to getting that project completed in time for us to film.
Damien was worried that there was too much working against
Photos:
Kyle
Hinshaw/LMGI
