◗ Pounding More Than Pints Wright, Pope and 1st AD Jack Ravenscroft on location in England. that way when you know where everyone is going to be.” When Gary pours himself a pint at the last pub, The World’s End, the tap activates a secret platform in the floor, 78 and the bar drops down into the aliens’ secret base. The bar set was built on an elevated stage at Elstree, but the base itself was filmed at a Thames pumping station in East London. The four-story cylindrical station was lit entirely from above with a circular rig of 54 1K Par cans gelled with Lee 117 Steel Blue. Augmenting that are actors wearing blue LED eyeglasses, and an 8'x4' voiceactivated blue/white LED panel that pulses whenever the robot leader’s disembodied voice is heard. (This prerecorded dialogue was patched through a GrandMa lighting desk.) The Par-can rig was skirted with 20'x20' teasers, and the off-camera floors and walls were draped with Duvatyn for negative fill. The scene culminates with a fantastic display of pyrotechnics and smoke, to which Pope added the effects of Atomic 3000 strobes and two 70K Lightning Strikes. Gary and company barely manage to escape the inferno that engulfs The World’s End, and after executing a 180-degree spin-out in Gary’s car — accomplished on camera by spinning the vehicle on a rotating process platform — they must outrunhttp://www.pce-atlanta.com http://www.pce-atlanta.com