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Over the three days of production, our three actors took turns capturing the shoot from their perspective. We’ve created a new youtube page and will be adding their experiences over the coming months. Have a look!

After a year of gestation, planning, rewrites, casting, starts and stops, NEW TERRITORY has been shot.

We invite you to catch news, photos, and general updates on our new Facebook page.

At the beginning of NEW TERRITORY, Eugene pulls out a map which he uses to chart the day’s adventures. In the short story Eugene goes to the trouble of mapping the actual terrain, but in the adaptation (and in the search for the right map), it was decided that his map would be more for the sake of make-believe, scrawling lines and scribbles over a terrain that has little to do with their present location.

After a search for available maps from books and other sources, the decision to create it as a prop was deemed necessary, since multiple versions would be needed for the sake of production.

The first step was to find a hero map.

Next began the process of staining the printout copies of the map using the morning’s leftover espresso and a towel for brushing. At first just a light coat is done, and then intermittent second coats across the page.

As the paper becomes saturated, the stain spreads, giving it a uniformity.

Next coffee grounds are sprinkled overtop, and then worked lightly into various sections with a wet towel. This will add darker blotches to the surface.

Folding the map back and forth over its creases to induce wear.

The finishing touches involve tearing the left side to suggest the map was lifted from a book, and giving the page a dog-ear. It will also help to obscure some of the map edges, to avoid the look of printer paper sizing.

This grade-school technique (for making treasure maps) was a lot of fun to revisit.

A few of the props found thus far.