A Meeting Of Doctors - on OFFICIAL BBC tumblr page!

Do you remember last year I did a big photoshoot in Cardiff with Kevin Coppa and Matt Elliott, my Tenth and Eleventh Doctor look-a-likes?

We had a great time and took some fun shots around the Cardiff locations.

Our best shoot was in Eddies Diner, the location for The Impossible Astronaut.

We even got mistaken for the REAL Doctor Who crew and caused some online speculation of a return to scenes from previous episodes!

Anyway, Matt dropped me an email this week (that’s Matt Elliott, not Smith) to tell me one of our photos had been picked up by the Official BBC Doctor Who Tumblr page, and it had been liked, shared and reposted almost 19,000 times!

I had to check it out, and it’s true - WOW.

Doctor Who Official on Tumblr:
Best cosplay ever?

A Meeting Of Doctors - when fiction becomes FACT

I hope you enjoyed our A Meeting Of Doctors photo-story I have been running over the past few days.

As well as having enormous fun doing it, the shoot was a logistical challenge to get everyone there at the same time; with all the props we needed; at the location we wanted; on a day we could shoot without being noticed too much.

I’m happy to say we achieved everything in my list –
except the last one ...

We did our photo-shoot at lunchtime on Thursday May 25th, and by the next day it had been reported as FACT that Matt Smith had been back at Eddie’s Diner filming new scenes for series seven!

it first appeared on Doctor Who Filming – a fan run Facebook page which documents all the filming as it happens.

Quite where the TARDIS in the back alley came from. We WISHED we had one, but didn’t.

A Meeting Of Doctors - episode 4

The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, having met up at a diner on an abandoned highway in the Utah desert, spent their time syncing diaries.

In the final part of A Meeting of Doctors from my massive Cardiff photoshoot, the Doctors compare the size of their equipment . . .

INT: DINER ON ABANDONED HIGHWAY

Having mysteriously met at a diner on an abandoned highway, the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors are now locked in a sonic battle of wits, each matching the other’s moves.

How can the deadlock be broken?

It takes companion Amy Pond to come up with the solution: a round of milkshakes!

The Doctors share the milkshake with Eleven’s own straws that make it taste fizzy.

At last the Time Lords are united over a common liking for strawberry milkshakes!



“Let’s shake on it!” says Ten.

THE END

I’d like to thank everyone involved in making this photo shoot happen. To Matt, Kevin and Lisa for being patient models and Daniel Pawlik for making the diaries

A Meeting Of Doctors - episode 3

The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, having met up at a diner on an abandoned highway in the Utah desert, spent their time syncing diaries.

In the third part of A Meeting Of Doctors from my massive Cardiff photoshoot, the Doctors compare the size of their equipment . . .

INT: DINER ON ABANDONED HIGHWAY
The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors have finally synced their diaries – to the relief of Amy Pond!

But attention quickly turns to The Doctor’s trusty sonic screwdriver, and it soon becomes apparent Eleven’s has many more settings than Ten’s.

Before long Ten is suffering from sonic envy.

Amy tries to reassure Ten that size isn’t everything – it’s how you use it.

But with their sonics locked in a temporal battle, Amy is looking exasperated! Can she bring make peace between her boys?

TO BE CONTINUED...

A Meeting of Doctors - episode 2

Last time on A Meeting Of Doctors, the Tenth Doctor found himself invited to a lone diner on an abandoned highway in the Utah desert.

In the second part of A Meeting Of Doctors from my massive Cardiff photoshoot, the Doctors get things up to date . . .

INT: DINER ON ABANDONED HIGHWAY
The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, along with Amy Pond, have found themselves invited to a diner on an abandoned Utah highway.
Unable to resolve who sent the invitation, the Doctors set about syncing their diaries.

After half an hour of timelines and paradoxes, Amy is thoroughly fed up, wishing she had stayed in the TARDIS with Rory, who stayed behind to check his emails.

Using River Song’s diary, which he has sneakily borrowed, The Tenth Doctor starts reading about his future exploits... and seems to be finding more than he bargained for.

Meanwhile, the Eleventh Doctor is also reading of future events.

A visit to the American wild west; bumping into further past selves; a fatal encounter with weeping angels; and a space ship filled with dinosaurs particularly pique his interest.

TO BE CONTINUED...

A Meeting Of Doctors - episode 1

The fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who is coming into view on the horizon, and talk is turning to the notion of the ever popular multi-Doctor episode.

As part of my massive Cardiff photoshoot last month we imagined what it could be like if two of the Doctors met face to face for the first time . . .

So today I am bringing you the first part of A Meeting Of Doctors from the main photoshoot, where I brought together Kevin Coppa, one of the best 10th Doctor cosplayers; and Matt Elliott, the most awesome 11th Doctor look-a-like.

EXT: UTAH DESERT
The Doctor’s TARDIS lands in the inhospitable landscape.

The Tenth Doctor steps out. Putting his glasses on he looks around, then heads for a lone diner on a nearby abandoned highway.

Once The Doctor is out of sight, the whirring noise of the TARDIS is heard again, but it is not his TARDIS leaving - it is a second TARDIS landing...

INT: DINER ON ABANDONED HIGHWAY
The Tenth Doctor finds a table at the diner, orders a milkshake and takes out a mysterious blue envelope. Inside is an invitation. He does not know who it is from or why he has been invited. All he knows is this is the right place - and time.

He doesn’t have to wait long before a tall, mop-headed, younger looking model of his later self boldly walks into the diner.

He too is carrying a blue enveloped invite - as is his companion Amy Pond!

They join the Tenth Doctor at the table.It isn’t long before confusion ensues: Who invited Who?

TO BE CONTINUED...

The Doctor has landed!

Today I’ve got the first of our special Cardiff photo shoots for you.

This was shot at Southerndown Beach, which is near Bridgend, a few miles around the coast from Cardiff.
It has cropped up in numerous episodes of new Who.

It first was used in Army Of Ghosts and Doomsday, when it was used as an isolated fjord in Norway, its name translating as Bad Wolf Bay (see right, top two images).

Later they return to the bay for the closing scenes of Journey’s End (see right, middle image).

It was then the location where Matt Smith shot his first ever scenes as The Doctor, for the episodes Time Of Angels and Flesh And Stone.
The Byzantium crashed at the top of the cliffs, and the TARDIS landed on the beach below (see right, bottom two images).

In the past few months the crew have been back yet again for filming for episode two of series seven (see below).



For our shoot we are recreating the look of Time Of Angels with Lisa Baxter as our Amy Pond, dressed in the correct costume.

Hope you enjoy our photos. More to follow soon.

A meeting of Doctors

Wow - have I got something real cool coming up for you!

I’ve just returned home after an amazing day down in Cardiff doing an all-day photoshoot with two of my favourite Doctor cosplay look-a-likes, with a superb Amy Pond to moderate.

Many of you will know US-based Kevin Coppa (see left) from The Ultimate Tennant Suit I made him, something he proudly wears to many US conventions; you will also have hopefully seen UK-based Matt Elliott (see below), who is the most awesome Eleventh Doctor look-a-like.

Well, I wondered what would happen if I could get the two of them together in the same photo – and now I know!

It didn’t take much persuading to get these guys in the same place together, but it took several weeks of planning to make it happen.

Here’s a little teaser photo for you, with more to follow soon.
We shot about a dozen scenarios, some just portraits; others are hilarious, so watch out for them in this and my Tennant Suit blog.