Director's Set Kit Sketch, Playtime (205)

Up today on the seaQuest MPS Blog is a Director's Set Kit Sketch from the second season's Playtime.  I do not own this piece, but found the image somewhere online.  I do not remember where it came from right now, so if it belongs to you, say something and I will give credit, link to your site, etc.

Playtime was another acceptable, not too good but not too bad second season episode.  It does feature one of the common issues with the second season, which is that the show is called seaQuest, but most of the action in this one takes place on land.  In the episode, the seaQuest receives a child's voice message asking for help and is sucked into the future.  In that future, there are only two people left, because of an epidemic and the fact that everyone started relying on computers.  The computer that controlled everything was Centsys, which was the thing that brought the crew to the future.  The computer wanted the seaQuest crew to destroy it, so that the remaining couple would have to work together, rather than just playing computer games.  Video games that feature giant robots that fight each other through the abandoned cities.  Of course, there is no discussion about the genetic problems of this Adam and Eve situation.

Director's Set Kit Sketch of the Centsys computer terminal with a VR video game chair on the bottom left.

And here is how it was realized in the episode

This comparison shows that it was pretty close between what the set designers gave the director to plan out their shots and what was finally realized on set.

Below the jump, a few more shots from the episode.

Set Design, Reunion (312)

Greetings once again from the seaQuest MPS Blog.  Today is a comparison between a set sketch and the final set in Reunion from the third season.

This is a sketch of the Tartarus Federation machine room set from Reunion.  From this image, you can see the set was planned as a series of walkways and tubes.  This is pretty much how the final set turned out.  One thing I could not spot in the final episode are the two doors evident on this sketch.  You can see from the written notes, they planned to reuse parts of the train from Destination Terminal to help make up the set.  I did not see any parts of the Omni-Pacific train in this set, but later in the episode at the research station there is a clear reuse of the doors from the train.

The final set in the episode is a little different.  For example, there are stairs that are not on the original sketch

Below the jump, more images from Reunion.