Shakespeare’s World firstly needed to edit the script into three different versions before casting eighteen professional actors to perform in the play(s).

Before filming could commence a pre-visualised model of a 1599 Globe Theatre needed to be built so that we could test the filming of several scenes. This would alter the style of filming that needed to be theatrical but also work as a film medium.

A CG version of 'The Globe' constructed as in high polygon detailed

The Globe's Internal stage for the main action of events.

To enable us to place the actors into a virtual world everything needed to be filmed on blue screen. Over a four week period 40 hours of digital film was recorded at Christie’s Education in London. This was only made possible by having a consistent lighting set-up and the professional nature of the cast and crew.

left image shows actor in bluescreen and right - after post production

blue screen acting again and afterwards the virtual globe composited into the background

Watch in live action video how the bluescreen transists to a CG back plate:
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The editing of the footage and placing it inside the virtual Globe was a huge under-taking. There were teams of people working up in Scotland and in London. At the same pace, the Elizabethan audience was constructed. Three major characters were built and then texturised differently, to be replicated to make up the 2000 audience members. They were then applied to a moving frame and animated in the second stage of production that intergrated animation with film.

Fully CG Audience Characters

The third phase of production was to make the whole project into a playable interactive educational game. Using the latest Macromedia Flash interactive software this was made possible.

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