Teacup Travels
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Teacup Travels |
 | |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2015-2017 |
| Production company |
Plum Films |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Episodes | 45 |
| genre | adventure |
| Theme music | Theme from Teacup Travels |
| Director | Simon Hynd |
| script | Polly Churchill Bar Ben-Yossef Dean Wilkinson Peter Hynes Erin Carter Brian Jordan |
| production | Micky MacPherson Simon Parsons |
| music |
Rasmus Borowski Alexius Tschallener |
| camera | Malcolm McLean Ryan Kernaghan |
| First broadcast | February 9, 2015 on CBeebies |
Teacup Travels is a British children's television series. The series was produced for CBeebies by Plum Films with the support of Creative Scotland in Scotland. It was first broadcast in Great Britain on February 9, 2015. By March 13, 2015, a total of 25 episodes, each 15 minutes in length, had been broadcast.
occupation
| Role name | actor | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Great aunt Lizzie | Gemma Jones | 1 |
| Charlotte | Evie Brassington | 1 |
| Elliot | Roderick Gilkison | 1 |
| mother | Julia Taudevin | 1 |
| Augusta | Gowan Calder | 1 |
| Brutus | Lawrence Libor | 1 |
| Camilla | Kirsty Mackay | 1 |
| Queen Bridget | Kim Allan | 1 |
| Isetnofret | Robyn Milne | 1 |
| Doctor Jiangnu | Sedhar Chozam | 1 |
| Atticus | Joe Ferrara | 1 |
| Hamish | James Keenan | 1 |
| Itisen | Eamonn O'Dwyer | 1 |
season 1
The stories of the first season take place in ancient Rome, imperial China, ancient Egypt and the land of the Celts in a period of 2500 BC. Chr. To 1850 AD
production
development
The series was developed in 2011 by the creative team Micky MacPherson, Tony Bibby and Simon Parsons. Parsons and MacPherson had already worked with director Simon Hynd on the short film Meat the Campbells in 2005 and they all had years of experience in the production of TV spots and children's television. Bibby took inspiration for Great Aunt Lizzie from his real aunt, whom he often visited in Liverpool as a child. To do this, he invented the historical dimension of stories.
The director of Teacup Travels was Simon Hynd. Art director and illustrator was John Gosler. A key cast in the series' production was Production Designer Leslie Dilley, a two-time Oscar winner for Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark .
Support to museums
A key element of the series is the collaboration with museums across the UK. Plum Films production company consulted the museums to ensure that the artifacts featured in Great Aunt Lizzie's stories were based on real historical artifacts. Whenever possible, Plum Films staff visited the museums to precisely determine the dimensions and properties of the object in each episode. This enabled the prop makers to make exact replicas of the desired objects. These replicas were then presented to the curator of the respective museum in order to receive further suggestions for improvement until everyone was satisfied. At the same time, the stories of the scripts were shared with each museum involved to ensure that each object was satisfactorily represented.
List of participating museums in season 1
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
- British Museum
- British Optical Association Museum
- The Dick Institute
- Dumfries Museum
- Durham University Oriental Museum
- Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
- Manchester Museum
- National Museum of Scotland
- Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum
- Stranraer Museum
- Swansea Museum
- Ulster Museum
style
The series is a combination of scenes filmed in front of a real background (for the epilogue and prologue in Great Aunt Lizzie's house) and scenes filmed with the actors in front of a green background (green screen technique ) in the studio and then lovingly in post-production with a Illustrated backgrounds have been combined.
Locations
The series was shot entirely in Scotland with funding from the BBC and Creative Scotland. The sets for the interior shots were built in the Loretta School in Musselburgh. The exterior shots of Great Aunt Lizzie's unique house were filmed in Head Gardener's Cottage in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh .
Film music
The score for Teacup Travels was composed by Rasmus Borowski and Alexius Tschallener and recorded in October 2014 with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Nic Raine at Smecky Music Studios in Prague .
Audience ratings
In the first week after the first broadcast on February 9, 2015, the show was placed three times in the top 10 of the station CBeebies with a peak of 561,000 viewers.
German charisma
Nothing is known about a German broadcast of Teacup Travels .
Individual evidence
- ^ Teacup Travels Full Cast & Crew - imdb.com
- ↑ Brightons author Tony has got storytelling down to a tea .
- ^ Leslie Dilley - Awards and Nominations .
- ↑ Cheap (!) Chinese shows . Archived from the original on February 27, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
- ↑ 'Teacup Travels' - CBeebies series features our objects! .
- ^ Artefacts which inspired children's TV show go on display at the museum .
- ↑ Historic artefacts at Dumfries museum helps inspire a new TV hit 'Teacup Travels' .
- ↑ Kids' show shines spotlight on Edinburgh .
- ↑ www.borowskimusic.com
- ↑ BARB Top 10s - CBeebies w / e Feb 15 2015 .
