Ed Hanna

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="041a11c3.gif"> <div> Production designer- Ed Hanna- speaks exclusively to RH Rules about his time working on the show! Ed even let's us in on some of the things that went on behind the scenes!</div> <div> <IMG SRC="12591600.jpg" border=0 width="145" height="96" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Relic Hunter Rules (Part 2)</B></FONT>     <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Arial" >|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter Rules (Part 2)"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News, Gossip and Rumours"><U>News, Gossip and Rumours</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OnSet Report"><U>On-Set Report</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews (Season 1)"><U>Reviews (Season 1)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews (Season 2)"><U>Reviews (Season 2)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Interview with Jurgen Wolff"><U>Interview with Jurgen Wolff</U></A>   |   <B>Ed Hanna</B>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guest Star Of The Week"><U>Guest Star Of The Week</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tia Carrere"><U>Tia Carrere</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christien Anholt"><U>Christien Anholt</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lindy Booth"><U>Lindy Booth</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter Articles"><U>Relic Hunter Articles</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Truth Behind The Relics"><U>The Truth Behind The Relics</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter Jokes"><U>Relic Hunter Jokes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bloopers"><U>Bloopers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter FanArt"><U>Relic Hunter Fan-Art</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mini Fanfiction"><U>Mini Fanfiction</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 2"><U>Page 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RH Virtual Season"><U>RH Virtual Season</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter Board Games"><U>Relic Hunter Board Games</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fun and Games"><U>Fun and Games</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Relic Hunter Code Of Fans"><U>The Relic Hunter Code Of Fans</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quotes"><U>Quotes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter Recipes"><U>Relic Hunter Recipes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lucky Fives"><U>Lucky Fives</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relic Hunter Poll"><U>Relic Hunter Poll</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Visitors"><U>Visitors</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Fans Speak Out"><U>The Fans Speak Out</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Results Of The Relic Hunter Polls"><U>Results Of The Relic Hunter Polls</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAQ"><U>FAQ</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Message From Me!"><U>A Message From Me!</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Ed Hanna</div> <div> The following has been directly lifted from a very nice email written to me by Ed Hanna, who worked as Production Designer for Season 1 & 2 of Relic Hunter.</div> <bR> <div> Thanks for your very kind words. Relic Hunter was some of the best fun I've</div> <div> had working since I started working in movies. Tia is an exceptionally nice</div> <div> person, and a real professional and it was a real pleasure to unleash our</div> <div> imaginations to give her and Christien as challenging an adventure as we</div> <div> could each week. The show was an Art Department dream come true ‹ well,</div> <div> maybe the dream version might have had a bigger budget ‹ and I had dream</div> <div> teams for the two season's I did.</div> <bR> <div> I left the show, with regret, at the end of season two, and I find I tell</div> <div> two stories most often:</div> <bR> <div> You may recall the wrecked ship in the Alaskan cave in "The Emperor's</div> <div> Bride". For non-sailors designing and building such a thing in our usual</div> <div> seven days was a bit daunting, so as always we started with a quick concept</div> <div> model, whipped together out of the bits of card and foamcor around the</div> <div> office. And for the massive curved ribs "oh perfect:  just hot glue those</div> <div> Cheesies to the underside of the deck, there that's the concepts". At that</div> <div> moment the Head Carpenter arrived, said if he didn't start building soon</div> <div> there'd be no boat at all, and, "That's all I need, I'll build from that.</div> <div> Thank you." He did, and it looked great. So although Wreck in the Cave was a</div> <div> set I was very proud of, we in the Art Dept., and now you, know that</div> <div> underneath it all, the boat was really cheesy.</div> <bR> <div> And you had to be there for the other one: In "Transformation" a climactic</div> <div> Sydney take-down, that happened in a location mud puddle pleased the</div> <div> producers so much, they sent the unit back to expand the scene, and to</div> <div> expand the puddle of course. In fact we went back twice, each time worrying</div> <div> that autumn leaves, increasingly visible breath, and the now struck and</div> <div> missing scenery pieces would give us away. And still they wanted more.</div> <div> Finally, we converted the Cave Lake from "Emperor's Bride" into (or maybe</div> <div> "Bride's" lake was the conversion. It's hard to remember now, because they</div> <div> all were conversions, first from a cave, then a jungle cliff-side, then a</div> <div> Viking tomb,) into a hog-wallow, filled it thigh-deep with warm water-mud,</div> <div> added some background pigs, and set the cast to rasslin'. It took a whole</div> <div> long, long day to film the studio mud-fight, and by the end the mud was</div> <div> cold, and it was hard to tell cast from crew, under the goo. Chilled,</div> <div> exhausted, and thoroughly disliking the whole concept of a day in the mud</div> <div> with pigs, nonetheless no one lost the cheerful spirit that made Relic such</div> <div> a great experience. And there was lots of war's-over hilarity in the</div> <div> showers.  </div> <div> That was Friday. And we had the mudlake gone and the new set well underway</div> <div> by Monday morning.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>