A THOUSAND ROPES
is a drama series created by South African writer director Tim Greene.
THIS WEBSITE
is a repository for the various media elements created as we develop the series.
South Africa, 1872: While searching for her brother at the Kimberley diamond rush, an intrepid young Victorian woman discovers her talent as a mining engineer.
The outraged patriarchal diggers try to stop her, but when a catastrophic collapse looms, they realise they need her skills to save their mine.
THE WORLD OF THE SERIES
The series tells the story of an exceptional woman’s struggle to find herself, set against the backdrop of a truly extraordinary environment. To offer a sense of the scale and audacity of the mine itself, the film makers built the environment in Unreal Engine.
A short video pitch in which creator Tim Greene introduces the key characters and narrative strands of the project.
TO SEE TIM GREENE’S RESUME, CLICK HERE.
SERIES INTRODUCTION
COLD OPEN PREVIZ
As part of the development process, the film makers are planning to shoot a pilot scene, using the cold open of show to introduce potential partners to the characters and the world of the series and have produced a detailed previz animation in preparation for the shoot.
VIRTUAL PRODUCTION TEST
The massive scale and detail of the landscape suggests that a large component of the series could and should be shot on an LED volume, and the film makers recently loaded the Unreal Engine level onto the Filmscape volume at Atlantic Studios.
PODCAST DISCUSSION
An AI generated podcast generated using Google’s Notebook language model, where the ‘hosts’ discuss the Pilot Episode and Series Outline of 1000 Ropes.
“Never has any eye seen such a marvellous show of mining, as was given in this grand Amphitheatre.
The chasm rose sheer and black like the walls of a deep, gloomy canyon.
The vast pit seemed to be covered by a monstrous cobweb, shining in the moonlight.
Hide buckets were flying like shuttles in a loom up and down the vast warp of wires,
twanging like dissonant harp strings, with a deafening din of rattling wheels and falling ground;
and every beholder was wonderstruck at this weird creation.”
- The Diamond Mines of South Africa by Gardner F. Williams