Monday, November 26, 2018
Hungary Stood In for Colonial Virginia in PBS Series ‘Jamestown’
Variety: Carnival Films, the production company behind “Downton Abbey,” tackles 1620s America with the series “Jamestown” — a production that took place nowhere near Virginia, site of the original Jamestown colony. Instead the show was shot at locations just outside Budapest, where a Southern drawl has seldom been heard.
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I think that this is really interesting because there is a historical Jamestown in the United States but it is a tourist attraction. Instead they chose to completely rebuild in a place that is not at all close to the original. The article mentions the cost of labor and the tax incentives of not doing it in the US however they also have to get all the visas and fly everyone over for filming. It is an interesting idea to recreate the set in a whole other country but I also think that it is a little impractical for filming. One of the things I noticed while reading this article is that the designers seem new for a season three which makes me wonder why the other designers left or if they were fired. The hair and makeup designer and the costume designer both have really interesting things to say about their design methods and specific things that they worked on and struggled with but I still want to know what happened to the others.
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