O custo médio por episódio de DST é de cerca de $ 8-8.5m. Tomando o custo médio de um episódio, dobrando-o porque era um filme de dois participantes e levando em consideração que era o final da temporada, o custo total de produção era provavelmente em torno de $ 20-25m (ish)
Like a big sci-fi feature, “Discovery” hasn’t been cheap: The average episode costs $8 million-$8.5 million. “It was like shooting a movie, the scale of it,” Yeoh says of making the pilot, which was directed by David Semel, who clashed with Fuller. “It wasn’t just ‘Quick, let’s get the shot. Move, move.’”
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Como esses programas não estão sendo filmados em ordem sequencial (como seria um programa em rede), mas como uma única entidade monolítica, que é lançada simultaneamente quando todas as imagens são extraídas de suas imagens "bloco de tiro'foi dividido em episódios, é muito difícil apontar para um único episódio e dizer "custa x"porque o custo de produção é compartilhado por toda a série, mas certamente foi um episódio mais caro que o normal.
We always have a lot of meetings on Discovery. Nevertheless, Patrick Tidy (first assistant director) and I knew that due to the size of 213/214, and the fact that we were block shooting, we were going to have many, many more meetings than we were used to — on set, at lunch, and even after we’d wrapped for the day. Visual effects meetings were a big part of the load. We had endless meetings with Jason Zimmerman (VFX Supervisor) and Ante Dekovic (VFX Supervisor) about the Red Angel, space battles, and Enterprise bridge screen and wall extensions. Rob McCallum (storyboard artist) and I generated 145 pages of storyboards to help these discussions along.
The first day of shooting we overlapped with episode 212, “Through the Valley of Shadows,” which Doug Aarniokoski was directing. As a producer/director, we usually try to make sure we’ve got hyper-experienced directors we trust going before us or after us, and Doug is easily one of those guys.
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