1 00:00:17,087 --> 00:00:20,397 DALEK: Eliminate all humans! Exterminate! 2 00:00:25,487 --> 00:00:28,524 Eliminate all humans! Exterminate! 3 00:00:29,687 --> 00:00:31,917 NARRATOR: The Day of the Daleks: Special Edition 4 00:00:32,007 --> 00:00:34,680 is the result of many hours of intensive work 5 00:00:34,767 --> 00:00:37,201 from a small group of talented individuals. 6 00:00:37,287 --> 00:00:39,403 Working to a very tight budget, 7 00:00:39,527 --> 00:00:44,123 a variety of methods have been employed to bring the 22nd century to life. 8 00:00:44,207 --> 00:00:47,802 In an attempt to be true to the spirit of the original episodes, 9 00:00:47,887 --> 00:00:51,675 new material has been shot using vintage 1970s film cameras. 10 00:00:52,407 --> 00:00:54,841 Modern digital techniques have been used 11 00:00:54,927 --> 00:00:57,157 to sympathetically improve visual effects, 12 00:00:57,247 --> 00:00:59,715 to restore errors in the original programme making, 13 00:00:59,807 --> 00:01:02,480 and to create an impressive new soundscape. 14 00:01:10,327 --> 00:01:12,887 I think it would be safe to say that all the producers 15 00:01:12,967 --> 00:01:15,879 on the Doctor Who DVD range have had a sort of pet story 16 00:01:15,967 --> 00:01:18,527 that they would have wanted to do the extras for. 17 00:01:18,607 --> 00:01:22,156 And for me, it was "Day of the Daleks", which was the story that 18 00:01:22,247 --> 00:01:24,886 got me hooked on Doctor Who as a six-year-old in 1972. 19 00:01:25,007 --> 00:01:27,362 It was, uh... I thought it was terrific at the time. 20 00:01:27,447 --> 00:01:30,598 It lived with me for many years. So, when the opportunity came, 21 00:01:30,687 --> 00:01:33,884 and I heard that Dan Hall was commissioning extras for this one, 22 00:01:34,007 --> 00:01:36,202 well, I made sure that I got the gig. 23 00:01:40,207 --> 00:01:42,721 Having been commissioned to do the extras for "Day of the Daleks", 24 00:01:42,807 --> 00:01:47,039 I decided to go down to Dropmore Park in Buckinghamshire, 25 00:01:47,127 --> 00:01:49,197 which was the original location for Auderly House, 26 00:01:49,287 --> 00:01:51,642 to shoot some background plates for the interviews. 27 00:01:53,927 --> 00:01:56,487 I looked around, saw how fantastic the place looked, 28 00:01:56,567 --> 00:02:00,799 and decided that maybe there was an option for a Special Edition. 29 00:02:04,687 --> 00:02:08,282 I don't think the idea of doing new effects was seriously in my mind 30 00:02:08,367 --> 00:02:10,323 until I went along to see Dropmore Park. 31 00:02:10,407 --> 00:02:13,479 The problem you've got with "Day of the Daleks" and new effects 32 00:02:13,567 --> 00:02:15,683 was always going to be the three-Dalek army. 33 00:02:15,807 --> 00:02:18,605 There are two ways of doing it, you either do CGI, 34 00:02:18,687 --> 00:02:21,076 which on the kind of budget we were likely to be talking about 35 00:02:21,167 --> 00:02:22,680 was not going to be very impressive, 36 00:02:22,767 --> 00:02:24,997 or you go for real, live-action Daleks. 37 00:02:25,087 --> 00:02:26,964 Now, the fact that I discovered 38 00:02:27,047 --> 00:02:31,006 that John Kelly had bought himself an Arriflex 16mm film camera 39 00:02:31,087 --> 00:02:32,725 certainly helped me make my mind up. 40 00:02:32,807 --> 00:02:35,082 The thought that maybe we could actually match 41 00:02:35,167 --> 00:02:39,285 the original footage from 1971, that was the thing. 42 00:02:39,367 --> 00:02:41,278 That was what got me excited about the whole project, really. 43 00:02:46,727 --> 00:02:49,321 Having secured a location and a film cameraman, 44 00:02:49,407 --> 00:02:52,797 all I needed now were Daleks and Ogrons. 45 00:02:52,887 --> 00:02:55,082 I contacted an old friend, Toby Chamberlain, 46 00:02:55,207 --> 00:02:56,879 an expert Dalek builder, 47 00:02:56,967 --> 00:03:01,119 and who I recall back in the 1980s had made a superb Ogron costume. 48 00:03:01,247 --> 00:03:04,956 So, I got in touch and asked him whether he wanted to be involved. 49 00:03:05,847 --> 00:03:07,644 TOBY CHAMBERLAIN: I build Daleks for a living. 50 00:03:07,727 --> 00:03:11,003 And it's an unfulfilled ambition of mine to have a Dalek on Doctor Who. 51 00:03:11,087 --> 00:03:13,237 I've supplied Cybermen for Doctor Who 52 00:03:13,327 --> 00:03:16,683 and "Silver Nemesis" and also in the more recent series, 53 00:03:16,767 --> 00:03:19,327 but as yet I have to build Daleks for the real series. 54 00:03:19,407 --> 00:03:20,726 So, this is the closest I've been, 55 00:03:20,847 --> 00:03:22,121 and it's been a real fun day, 56 00:03:22,207 --> 00:03:25,199 both building it and supplying it, and being inside it. 57 00:03:31,007 --> 00:03:33,885 It's an opportunity I didn't really want to pass up on, 58 00:03:33,967 --> 00:03:36,481 so I suffered for my art today, although it was a bit too hot, 59 00:03:36,567 --> 00:03:38,717 but it was good fun. I think we all enjoyed ourselves. 60 00:03:39,087 --> 00:03:40,486 (INAUDIBLE) 61 00:03:44,087 --> 00:03:46,999 KEVAN LOOSELEY: We're filming some more footage for "Day of the Daleks". 62 00:03:47,087 --> 00:03:49,476 I've been playing the part of a UNIT soldier, 63 00:03:49,567 --> 00:03:52,240 so I've been running around getting exterminated and zapped all day long. 64 00:03:56,247 --> 00:03:59,159 Great fun. Reliving me childhood. 65 00:04:08,207 --> 00:04:11,279 Well, I'm an Ogron. I know I don't look like it now, 66 00:04:11,367 --> 00:04:12,436 but I'm an Ogron. 67 00:04:12,527 --> 00:04:15,837 (LAUGHS) I'm glad to be out of the skin now, by the way. 68 00:04:15,927 --> 00:04:18,122 It's very, very hot in there. 69 00:04:18,567 --> 00:04:20,080 It's been a day of ups and downs, 70 00:04:20,167 --> 00:04:22,761 we've been waiting for the weather to be bright. 71 00:04:22,847 --> 00:04:24,963 When it's bright, I was waiting for it to go dull. 72 00:04:25,047 --> 00:04:27,641 When it was dull, I was waiting for it to go sunny again. 73 00:04:27,727 --> 00:04:30,195 So, um, you know, it's been a very, very good day, actually. 74 00:04:30,287 --> 00:04:32,198 We've all had a good time here today as well. 75 00:04:34,167 --> 00:04:37,284 (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 76 00:04:37,367 --> 00:04:39,562 This is the Arriflex BL, 77 00:04:39,647 --> 00:04:43,845 which is a camera that has been about for donkey's years. 78 00:04:43,927 --> 00:04:47,203 I think it was introduced in the mid-'60s by Arriflex. 79 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:50,006 Um, it's a 16mm camera 80 00:04:50,087 --> 00:04:52,521 which could have sound if we so decided, 81 00:04:52,607 --> 00:04:54,643 but not today, it doesn't. 82 00:04:55,527 --> 00:04:57,757 -Okay, ready? -Ready. 83 00:04:57,847 --> 00:04:59,963 And action! 84 00:05:00,047 --> 00:05:03,881 Enter the building and exterminate all humans. 85 00:05:03,967 --> 00:05:07,277 KELLY: And it is probably an old BBC camera. 86 00:05:07,367 --> 00:05:11,758 The Arriflex BL was the biggest work horse of the BBC's film department 87 00:05:11,847 --> 00:05:16,443 between the mid-'60s and the early '80s. 88 00:05:16,527 --> 00:05:19,963 And, um, it's almost certainly what they would have been using 89 00:05:20,047 --> 00:05:21,719 to shoot "Day of the Daleks". 90 00:05:27,207 --> 00:05:31,359 It's been a very hard day, and with film being what it is, 91 00:05:31,447 --> 00:05:33,642 you don't quite know how it's going to turn out, 92 00:05:33,767 --> 00:05:36,600 but I'm very hopeful that it's going to look good. And, um... 93 00:05:36,687 --> 00:05:40,680 And with a bit of careful grading, it will hopefully fit in 94 00:05:40,767 --> 00:05:43,201 to the surrounding material nice and happily. 95 00:05:43,287 --> 00:05:45,437 BROSTER: Well,John had no reason to fear. 96 00:05:45,527 --> 00:05:49,156 The film was sent off for processing and returned looking immaculate. 97 00:05:49,247 --> 00:05:51,522 Steve Roberts of BBC TVCentre 98 00:05:51,607 --> 00:05:54,167 oversaw the film's conversion to a digital format 99 00:05:54,247 --> 00:05:56,203 using the Spirit Telecine machine. 100 00:05:56,967 --> 00:05:59,481 Of course, the techniques for transferring film 101 00:05:59,567 --> 00:06:02,365 are so much better than they were back in the '70s. 102 00:06:02,447 --> 00:06:04,119 The film sequences in "Day of the Daleks" 103 00:06:04,207 --> 00:06:06,801 look grainy and washed out compared to the new material. 104 00:06:06,887 --> 00:06:09,242 BBC colourist Jonathan Wood 105 00:06:09,327 --> 00:06:11,636 graded the film to match the original colour palette 106 00:06:11,727 --> 00:06:14,287 and then Peter Crocker over at SVS 107 00:06:14,367 --> 00:06:16,437 had to effectively degrade the new film, 108 00:06:16,567 --> 00:06:20,162 the opposite of his usual job of film and TVrestoration. 109 00:06:20,247 --> 00:06:23,000 The next job was to add the new effects. 110 00:06:24,327 --> 00:06:27,842 I was very keen that the new effects wouldn't look too anachronistic. 111 00:06:27,927 --> 00:06:32,478 The danger is with doing new sort of digital effects on old TV, 112 00:06:32,567 --> 00:06:34,080 it just stands out too much, you know. 113 00:06:34,167 --> 00:06:36,237 It just looks too obviously modern. 114 00:06:36,447 --> 00:06:37,880 When we started doing this, 115 00:06:37,967 --> 00:06:40,037 and I decided that Michael Dinsdale of Farmergeddon 116 00:06:40,127 --> 00:06:43,085 would be the ideal candidate for doing the actual digital effects, 117 00:06:43,167 --> 00:06:46,079 the opticals, the ray guns, all that sort of stuff. 118 00:06:46,167 --> 00:06:48,203 My brief to him was that we try and keep it 119 00:06:48,287 --> 00:06:50,596 looking like it could be made in 1971. 120 00:06:50,727 --> 00:06:53,036 To be honest, some of the effects that we've actually put in there 121 00:06:53,127 --> 00:06:55,687 probably do look too good for the era. 122 00:06:55,767 --> 00:06:57,405 I don't think even a Silent Running budget 123 00:06:57,487 --> 00:06:59,796 could have achieved some of those effects. 124 00:06:59,887 --> 00:07:03,926 So, you know, we have achieved good things on a very small budget, 125 00:07:04,007 --> 00:07:07,602 largely to do with the fact that Michael was just so talented 126 00:07:07,687 --> 00:07:11,362 and so clever with his modelling and his CG and everything. 127 00:07:11,447 --> 00:07:13,642 It looks really... I think it looks really impressive. 128 00:07:15,167 --> 00:07:17,123 (RAY GUNS FIRING) 129 00:07:22,847 --> 00:07:25,202 BROSTER: Apart from Michael Dinsdale's effects, 130 00:07:25,287 --> 00:07:27,847 Aaron Climas has made an important contribution. 131 00:07:27,927 --> 00:07:30,805 A couple of shots needed an experienced rotoscoper 132 00:07:30,887 --> 00:07:33,276 to match new effects with old shots. 133 00:07:33,887 --> 00:07:36,685 Particularly, we see here Aaron has done a fine job 134 00:07:36,767 --> 00:07:38,803 of matching the movement of the new screen. 135 00:07:38,887 --> 00:07:42,163 Plus the CSO fixes on the Dalek are done by him, too. 136 00:07:42,247 --> 00:07:44,761 I shall lead the expedition! 137 00:07:44,847 --> 00:07:47,725 This time, there must be no mistake. 138 00:07:47,807 --> 00:07:51,766 The enemies of the Daleks will be destroyed! 139 00:07:51,847 --> 00:07:54,407 The idea of replacing the Dalek voices was an interesting one. 140 00:07:54,487 --> 00:07:57,081 The originals are not particularly good. 141 00:07:57,167 --> 00:07:59,362 I don't think Paul Bernard, the director, 142 00:07:59,447 --> 00:08:01,244 really knew what a Dalek sounded like. 143 00:08:01,327 --> 00:08:04,558 The appearance of the Doctor has changed before. 144 00:08:04,647 --> 00:08:08,606 I remember at the time, as a kid because I did, funnily enough, 145 00:08:08,687 --> 00:08:10,962 since I've ended up doing the Dalek voices for Doctor Who, 146 00:08:11,527 --> 00:08:13,995 I did have a preoccupation with the voices. 147 00:08:14,087 --> 00:08:15,884 They always scared me. 148 00:08:15,967 --> 00:08:19,482 And I remember thinking when I first heard them in "Day of the Daleks", 149 00:08:19,567 --> 00:08:22,320 "This is not right!" 150 00:08:22,447 --> 00:08:24,642 You know, and of course, since then, you know, 151 00:08:24,727 --> 00:08:26,160 since meeting other Doctor Who fans, 152 00:08:26,247 --> 00:08:29,159 everyone goes, "Oh, the Dalek voices in 'Day of the Daleks' were terrible." 153 00:08:29,247 --> 00:08:30,760 And they mostly are. 154 00:08:30,847 --> 00:08:32,724 Which is an awful thing to say, 155 00:08:32,807 --> 00:08:35,446 I feel sorry for those two actors who did them. 156 00:08:35,527 --> 00:08:38,837 There has been a drop in recent production figures. 157 00:08:38,927 --> 00:08:42,283 -That can be explained. -Explanations are irrelevant. 158 00:08:42,367 --> 00:08:44,927 (OLD AND NEW VOICES BLENDING) Production targets...must be maintained. 159 00:08:45,007 --> 00:08:47,396 We will reach the targets on the next work period. 160 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:52,999 For the next work period, target figures will be increased by 10%. 161 00:08:53,087 --> 00:08:55,760 So, there was a suggestion that we try to replace them. 162 00:08:55,847 --> 00:09:00,921 The problem with this story is that all we have is the final mono mix. 163 00:09:01,007 --> 00:09:02,725 We don't have the dialogue separately, 164 00:09:02,807 --> 00:09:05,241 we don't have the Dalek voices, the original Dalek voices separately. 165 00:09:05,327 --> 00:09:07,443 We don't have the music separately. 166 00:09:07,527 --> 00:09:09,836 So, if you're going to put new Daleks on, 167 00:09:09,927 --> 00:09:12,441 you've got to take the old Daleks off. 168 00:09:12,527 --> 00:09:14,677 Of course, when you take the old Daleks off, 169 00:09:14,767 --> 00:09:17,440 any music that's under them, sound effects that's under them, 170 00:09:17,567 --> 00:09:20,957 other people talking that's under them, that all comes off as well. 171 00:09:21,047 --> 00:09:23,277 So, the first job was a tricky one, 172 00:09:23,367 --> 00:09:26,677 lifting bits of sound and even tape noise from elsewhere in the story, 173 00:09:26,767 --> 00:09:28,564 so that I could take the Daleks out, 174 00:09:28,647 --> 00:09:30,842 so that it would sound as if they'd never been there, 175 00:09:30,927 --> 00:09:34,283 and we were left with just a clean track, it was very tricky. 176 00:09:34,367 --> 00:09:36,358 But eventually, apart from a couple of points 177 00:09:36,447 --> 00:09:38,722 where they trod on other people's lines, 178 00:09:38,847 --> 00:09:41,884 they did come out pretty clean. I was very pleased with it. 179 00:09:45,367 --> 00:09:47,961 DALEK: What is your report? 180 00:09:48,047 --> 00:09:50,845 We have a fix on the time transfer device. 181 00:09:51,007 --> 00:09:54,317 It is operating again in the 20th century time zone. 182 00:09:54,727 --> 00:09:56,319 And it must be them. 183 00:09:56,407 --> 00:10:00,844 (VOICES BLENDING) You have obtained the space-time coordinates? 184 00:10:02,047 --> 00:10:05,278 CONTROLLER: We're trying now. The trace is much stronger this time. 185 00:10:05,367 --> 00:10:08,279 -There is... -You must not fail! 186 00:10:09,007 --> 00:10:12,443 AYRES: I've known Nick Briggs for years. We go back a very long way. 187 00:10:12,527 --> 00:10:15,564 We first met working on Keith Barnfather's Myth Makers series, 188 00:10:15,647 --> 00:10:17,444 where I was doing the sound on all of the early ones 189 00:10:17,527 --> 00:10:18,755 and wrote the music for it. 190 00:10:18,847 --> 00:10:21,042 And Nick was the interviewer. 191 00:10:21,127 --> 00:10:23,641 And of course, we were all great Doctor Who fans, 192 00:10:23,727 --> 00:10:25,001 which was why we were doing that. 193 00:10:25,087 --> 00:10:28,875 Nick was not just a Doctor Who fan, he was a complete Dalek nut. 194 00:10:29,807 --> 00:10:32,924 And he still is. And of course, he is now voice of the Daleks 195 00:10:33,007 --> 00:10:35,840 on the new series and quite rightly so, because he loves it 196 00:10:35,927 --> 00:10:37,155 and he's very good at it. 197 00:10:37,247 --> 00:10:39,044 So, of course, if we were going to do this, 198 00:10:39,127 --> 00:10:41,800 we'd get him in to do the Dalek voices on this. 199 00:10:42,527 --> 00:10:45,758 What I wanted and I think what Steve Broster, 200 00:10:45,847 --> 00:10:49,635 the producer of this, wanted was very classic-sounding Daleks. 201 00:10:49,727 --> 00:10:52,036 We didn't want new-series Daleks 202 00:10:52,127 --> 00:10:54,243 to have suddenly appeared in a classic Doctor Who episode. 203 00:10:54,327 --> 00:10:55,965 Exterminate them! 204 00:10:56,167 --> 00:10:59,318 The way we solved that was to ask Nick 205 00:10:59,407 --> 00:11:01,682 to pitch it down slightly. 206 00:11:01,767 --> 00:11:03,723 To be not quite as, 207 00:11:04,047 --> 00:11:07,801 as quite deranged as the new Daleks can be. 208 00:11:08,007 --> 00:11:11,158 Um, so pitch it down slightly, a bit more measured in his delivery. 209 00:11:11,247 --> 00:11:13,442 But one of the main things I've done is 210 00:11:13,527 --> 00:11:15,802 rather than using a new digital ring modulator, 211 00:11:15,887 --> 00:11:17,161 which is what Nick does now, 212 00:11:17,247 --> 00:11:19,886 I've used a classic analogue ring modulator, 213 00:11:19,967 --> 00:11:22,197 one that was made actually in the early '80s, 214 00:11:22,287 --> 00:11:24,323 which was the kind of thing being used 215 00:11:24,407 --> 00:11:26,159 to create the Dalek voices during the 1980s 216 00:11:26,247 --> 00:11:29,319 and is very close to the kind of thing they were using right back, 217 00:11:29,407 --> 00:11:31,079 back in the '60s. 218 00:11:31,167 --> 00:11:34,682 But I've also used a bit of distortion on the voice, 219 00:11:34,767 --> 00:11:37,565 which gives it a real edge to it. 220 00:11:37,647 --> 00:11:41,799 All enemies of the Daleks must be destroyed! 221 00:11:41,927 --> 00:11:46,443 Exterminate them! Exterminate them! 222 00:11:46,527 --> 00:11:50,406 Exterminate them! Exterminate them! 223 00:11:50,487 --> 00:11:54,844 (MIXING WITH DISTORTED VERSION) Exterminate them! Exterminate them! 224 00:11:55,647 --> 00:11:59,435 So, I think it sounds... It's obviously Nick doing the Daleks, 225 00:11:59,527 --> 00:12:01,438 it sounds modern, it sounds a bit up-to-date. 226 00:12:01,527 --> 00:12:05,122 But it also has that sort of classic analogue sound to it. 227 00:12:05,207 --> 00:12:07,277 It's a little bit less predictable, I think, 228 00:12:07,367 --> 00:12:09,119 than a contemporary digital effect. 229 00:12:09,207 --> 00:12:12,119 Um, and I'm quite pleased with the way it sounds. 230 00:12:12,207 --> 00:12:17,486 The visitors will be re-captured and returned here for mind analysis. 231 00:12:17,567 --> 00:12:19,637 Mark Ayres' contribution's enormous, you know. 232 00:12:19,767 --> 00:12:21,405 His work's just terrific, you know. 233 00:12:21,487 --> 00:12:24,684 And obviously he's very sympathetic to the original materials, 234 00:12:24,767 --> 00:12:26,280 and the new sounds he's created, 235 00:12:26,367 --> 00:12:28,676 the new atmospheres on the future Earth, that sort of thing, 236 00:12:28,767 --> 00:12:30,564 are absolutely just top-notch, brilliant, 237 00:12:30,647 --> 00:12:32,922 really brings the thing to life. 238 00:12:37,767 --> 00:12:39,997 There are lots of little changes... 239 00:12:40,127 --> 00:12:42,197 Some changes the purists will probably hate, 240 00:12:42,287 --> 00:12:44,005 but I gave myself carte-blanche 241 00:12:44,087 --> 00:12:46,726 to basically change anything I felt needed changing. 242 00:12:46,807 --> 00:12:48,763 You know, the original's still on the DVD. 243 00:12:48,847 --> 00:12:51,725 You can still watch "Day of the Daleks" as it was transmitted in 1 972. 244 00:12:51,807 --> 00:12:55,880 But our version, you know, I've taken away any little actor fluffs, 245 00:12:55,967 --> 00:12:58,162 a few little camera movements that were slightly off, 246 00:12:58,247 --> 00:13:02,160 I've tried to basically just nip and tuck where possible 247 00:13:02,247 --> 00:13:04,556 and just make the thing just that little bit more polished. 248 00:13:04,647 --> 00:13:05,841 That's the idea. 249 00:13:05,927 --> 00:13:08,395 Whether we've achieved it, well, I'll let you judge.