If you go down to the point today...
You won't see anything hugely interesting because, funnily enough, people making films have lunchbreaks at more or less the same time as you do, so they're all offsite being fed.
Oh well. There's enough reports round the net already, I guess, and it was far too nice a day to eat luch at work anyway. Also, it wasn't crowded today at all. I made an attempt to get down there last Sunday, but there were so many tourists that they'd closed the road about a kilometer out, and were running shuttle buses. The traffic was utter mayhem - people parked everywhere, and trying to turn around at the roadblocks on quite a narrow street and so on. The residents must have been seriously annoyed, but I bet the Lighthouse restaurant had its best day ever! So: note to self: avoid lunchtimes on weekdays due to boredom, and weekends due to chaos. I suspect early (for me - mid for normal people) in the morning is probably the time to be entertained.
This is as close a shot of the whole ship as I could manage. It's been rotated around to face northeast, and there are so many tents and trucks in the way that you can't really see very much anymore.
They've completed the rigging on the main mast after all, and a topmast of sorts has been added as well. The odd projections above the crows nest are holding the boom for a partial sail - just enough to be the bottom edge of what I expect will be a full-sized CGI sail.
A giant bluescreen is placed to be raised between the ship and the mess of tents:
The sailors will be apparently be fighting something with crossbows at some point:
The ship is looking a little more weathered after last week's thunderstorms, but the detailing is still funky. Apparently Narnia has different rules about what colours you can use in heraldry, but silk pennons are the same the Known World over :).
And completely free of ship, but full of colour nonetheless... this is why I like to come here for lunch even without the film set. Some days, I really recognise the good things I have - lunchbreaks like this one are definitely one of them.
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Oh well. There's enough reports round the net already, I guess, and it was far too nice a day to eat luch at work anyway. Also, it wasn't crowded today at all. I made an attempt to get down there last Sunday, but there were so many tourists that they'd closed the road about a kilometer out, and were running shuttle buses. The traffic was utter mayhem - people parked everywhere, and trying to turn around at the roadblocks on quite a narrow street and so on. The residents must have been seriously annoyed, but I bet the Lighthouse restaurant had its best day ever! So: note to self: avoid lunchtimes on weekdays due to boredom, and weekends due to chaos. I suspect early (for me - mid for normal people) in the morning is probably the time to be entertained.
This is as close a shot of the whole ship as I could manage. It's been rotated around to face northeast, and there are so many tents and trucks in the way that you can't really see very much anymore.
They've completed the rigging on the main mast after all, and a topmast of sorts has been added as well. The odd projections above the crows nest are holding the boom for a partial sail - just enough to be the bottom edge of what I expect will be a full-sized CGI sail.
A giant bluescreen is placed to be raised between the ship and the mess of tents:
The sailors will be apparently be fighting something with crossbows at some point:
The ship is looking a little more weathered after last week's thunderstorms, but the detailing is still funky. Apparently Narnia has different rules about what colours you can use in heraldry, but silk pennons are the same the Known World over :).
And completely free of ship, but full of colour nonetheless... this is why I like to come here for lunch even without the film set. Some days, I really recognise the good things I have - lunchbreaks like this one are definitely one of them.
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