The Tribe Series 3 Production Diary

Week Date Details
- May

Pre-production

  • Simon May composed new themes and incidental music for the series.
1 Tue Jul 4
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Sun Jul 9

  • The week began on Tuesday, with interior studio scenes at Cloud 9's studios. The rest of the week consisted of parallel shooting days with two production units on different locations. They had Monday and Saturday off, and had a shooting day on Sunday.
  • Locations: Included an old abandoned college, deserted city streets, parks, gardens, some beautiful hills, a radar station/observatory.
2 Mon Jul 10
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Fri Jul 14

  • They shot on exterior locations every day of the week. There were some parallel shooting days.
  • Locations: Included a grave, beautiful hills, a mountain, a radar tracking station, an observatory, some gorgeous beaches, the countryside, woods, an old college, city streets.
  • Animals involved in shooting this week were chickens, goats, pigs, dogs, roosters, and a white horse.
3 Mon Jul 17
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Fri Jul 21

  • Many parallel days with shooting at two different locations.
  • Locations: Included city streets, a park, and of course the Mall.
  • Scenes probably included Bray and co's visit to the eco camp, the gang checking out the graves on Eagle Mountain.
4 Mon Jul 24
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Fri Jul 28

  • There was only one paralell day this week. There were two location days, and otherwise two location days. The first location day was cancelled due to weather and they had to finish shooting at the location the following day.
  • Locations: Included the Eco Camp at Kaitoke Regional Park.
5 Mon Jul 31
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Fri Aug 4

  • Three of five days were parallel shooting days. They filmed a total of 60 scenes in about 90 hours of shooting time.
  • Locations: Included a beach 30 km away from the Cloud 9 Studios.
  • Scenes: Probably Lex and Ebony going rogue fighting the chosen etc.
6 Mon Aug 7
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Fri Aug 11

  • One parallel day. Three days were shot in the Cloud 9 studios, one day was shot outside the studio and one was on location 15 minutes away from the studios. They filmed about 60 scenes after 90 hours of shooting time.
  • Locations: Cloud 9 studios exterior.
  • Scenes: Ebony and Bray's stick fight.
7 Mon Aug 14
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Fri Aug 18

  • One parallel shooting day. About 60 scenes were shot, totaling about 2 episodes of The Tribe. Three days were location days.
  • Scenes: Based on photos: Amber and Pride fishing, chain gang outside the mall.
8 Mon Aug 21
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Fri Aug 25

  • One paralell day. 63 sceenes were shot for a total of 60 minutes film time.
  • Locations: Including farm set on Whiteman's Valley backlot.
9 Mon Aug 28
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Fri Sep 1

  • There were three location days. 55 scenes were shot for a total of 40 miinutes shooting time.
  • Locations: Including an old mental instutition/hospital that had been closed at the time of filming.
Filming at the mental hospital.
10 Mon Sep 4
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Fri Sep 8

  • Two paralell days, one of which was on Friday. Two location days. 67 scenes were shot for a total of 59 minutes of shooting time. One day had 80 extras.
  • Locations: Including the Kaitoke Ranges, outside the Cloud 9 studios in the carpark.
LEX, EBONY, DWAYNE in the beautiful Kaitoke Ranges north of Wellington.

Week 1

Tuesday July 4 - Sunday July 9, 2000

The week began on Tuesday, with interior studio scenes at Cloud 9's studios. The rest of the week consisted of parallel shooting days with two production units on different locations.

Locations: Included an old abandoned college, deserted city streets, parks, gardens, some beautiful hills, a radar station/observatory.

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