There you have it. Another brilliant promo from the gang at Syfy Publicity & Marketing. LOTS going on here. The images whip by so quickly, it's really hard to get a sense of what, exactly, is going on. Thankfully, this is the age of screen grabs. So, without further ado, let's deconstruct the Dark Matter season 2 trailer…
May 2, 2016: Final week of production on Dark Matter’s second season!
Tomorrow will mark the last Tuesday of the Dark Matter season 2 production schedule. Where has the time gone? It feels like only yesterday we were in Vancouver convening the writers' room - Back at a time when season 2 and the Trump presidency seemed so impossibly faraway. And now look at us. Finally, after many months…
February 1, 2016: Dark Matter doings!
Spaaaaaaace neeeerd! Ahem. Now that I've got that out of my system... With Consulting Producer Ivon Bartok on set, I was able to sit in my office and blaze through seven glorious pages of my latest script (questions, silver ball, impending doom, threats, danger, explosion) bringing me to the top of P.51. I figure I'll…
January 29, 2016: Space spaghetti and sweaters!
Check it out! The pasta of the future! Chef Mallozzi Spaghetti & Meatballs! Perfect for those nights you don't feel like taking the transport shuttle to the moon base market for a supply run. Thanks to 1st Assistant Art Director and Graphics Maestro Roxanne Borris for immortalizing me in Dark Matter art department lore (since this…
January 27, 2016: Dark Matter Episode 202 title revealed!
Huzzah! We (and I do mean the collective "we" as YOU all helped choose them!) have another episode title for Dark Matter's second season. Last week, you all voted and the winner was: "Episode 14: Welcome To Your New Home". This week, you voted again and while the results were much closer, there was a clear winner…
January 24, 2016: Dark Matter season 2 lexicon! (incomplete)
Alexander Rook Anders Android Arax Nero Bubba Clones Corelactic Industries Corporate War Danny Bones Darius Derrick Moss Devon Dwarf Star Technologies Earth Emily Kolburn Empress Ferrous Corp Five Four Galactic Authority Hiro Ishida Jace Corso Kal Varrick key card Kierkan League of Autonomous Worlds Marauder Maynad Hansmeed Mikkei Combine Milo Misaki neural imprint Nieman Nyx…
January 14, 2016: Cat Shirt Thursday on the set of Dark Matter season 2!
Cat Shirt Thursdays! The tradition continues... Jayson Clute - B Camera Operator, Dark Matter Matt Purdy - Stand in, Dark Matter Chris Toudy - Key Grip, Dark Matter Alyssa Pawlak - Stand in, Dark Matter Kelly Anastasiou - B 2nd Assistant Camera, Dark Matter Drew Williams - Boom Operator, Dark Matter Nicola Moss - On Set Key Props, Dark Matter Well, today…
January 8, 2016: Up and at ’em! Dark Matter in production!
In a perfect world, I'd be sleeping peacefully away like those two pictured above (Look at them! They get to actually sleep on set instead of pretending they're simply "deep in thought" which is MY go-to) , but until they finish fine-tuning that teleportation technology I've been anxiously awaiting (for going on thirty years now),…
January 6, 2016: Dark Matter Season 2, Episode 202, Day 4!
Today was all about the Android. Between set-ups, I finally got a chance to sit down with actress Zoie Palmer and take her through our plans for the Android in season 2. We discussed the surprising encounter in Episode 204, the wildly atypical happenings in Episode 205, and those late-season developments and payoffs (plus much…
January 5, 2016: Dark Matter season 2! Episode 202! Day 3!
Today, we were back on Hyperion-8 for our third day of main unit. On the docket: Inserts owing of the "flash" The lipstick acquisition A deal is struck/A plan is hatched A complication leads to an improvisation (that will, in turn, lead to another complication - which will, again, lead to another improvisation) The ladies…
January 4, 2016: Back on set! Dark Matter Season 2!
We were back on set today for Day #2 of Dark Matter Episode 202. Normally, a 5:20 a.m. wake-up compounded by a thirty minute work-out would have had me nice and tired and ready for bed - at around 2:00 p.m. Luckily, consulting producer Ivon Bartok was packing his GreensPlus. A single shot was enough natural caffeine…
December 11, 2015: Dark Matter Episode 201 – Production Day 3!
Got your pass key? Great! Welcome to Hyperion-8 Galactic Detention Facility. Please leave your cell phones at the door. The blue screen view out the hotel room. Quarters for two of our, uh, "guests". An interesting set of doors. Can't wait to see them in action. LBW captures Professor Bartok's lecture on me mechanics of…
December 10, 2015: Dark Matter Episode 201 – Production Day #2!
Today, we were back on Hyperion-8, shooting Day 2 of Episode #201. Moon-base! Mooooooon-base! First scene up called for some major reinforcement of the corridor wall to withstand the, uh, "actor action". But director Amanda Tapping had it all figured out. We're heading this way in the coming days. Please observe the regulations and mind…
December 9, 2015: Production begins on Dark Matter season 2!
I'd set my alarm for 6 a.m. but actually got up a half an hour earlier at 5:30 a.m. Technically, I'd been awake even earlier if you counted the numerous times I woke up to anxiously check my alarm clock between 3 and 4 a.m. Even earlier still if you counted that 2:00 a.m. text message…