Night Market
Commercial · Pre-Production · Co-Director
RDAPJW
Project settings

Locations

Locking a location keeps its geometry, materials and light consistent in every shot filmed there.

Aurora Station — Control Room

Aurora Station — Control Room

Locked

The nerve centre: three console banks, analogue backup rack, one frosted window.

Geography
Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic
Period
Present day
Architecture
Prefabricated modular, 1970s expansion
Lighting
Amber indicator wash, cold window fill
Variants
Control Room — Night
Indicator light only
Control Room — Power loss
Emergency red, no console glow
Used in: Scene 2
Aurora Station — Exterior

Aurora Station — Exterior

Locked

Four buildings and an antenna array half-buried in drift snow.

Geography
Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic
Period
Present day
Architecture
Raised modular huts on piles
Lighting
Blue hour ambient
Variants
Exterior — Blue hour
Calm, -28C
Exterior — Whiteout
Storm, 17 m/s wind
Exterior — Aurora night
Clear, aurora overhead
Used in: Scene 1
Aurora Station — Service Corridor

Aurora Station — Service Corridor

Narrow pipe run linking the dorm module to the transmitter hall.

Geography
Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic
Period
Present day
Architecture
Utility spine
Lighting
Failing fluorescent strips
Variants
Corridor — Flickering
Strip light failure
Used in: Not yet scheduled
Transmitter Hall

Transmitter Hall

High-ceilinged hall of tube amplifiers and reel-to-reel archive decks.

Geography
Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic
Period
Present day
Architecture
Single-span shed
Lighting
Valve glow, single work lamp
Variants
Transmitter Hall — Night
Work lamp only
Used in: Not yet scheduled