corridor Production Design in SciFi

[jefferiestubes8]

I have wanted to start a couple threads about specific production design in Science Fiction films such as helmets, space/environmental suites, and interiors of ships but this blog post on the io9 site gives me the idea to continue the discussion on TrekBBS' SciFi/Fantasy forum.

Ubernerd Martin Anderson argues in a surprisingly persuasive essay that corridors - from trippy to utilitarian - are crucial to great scifi concept design. Check out these famous scifi corridors and tell us which corridor rules them all.

Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
Sep 4 2009
http://io9.com/5352485/which-science-fiction-movie-gives-the-best-corridor

Trek specific corridors:
Enterprise NX-01 corridor
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c5/NX-01_corridor.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/2/1016/2893.jpg


Enterprise corridor [Trek XI (2009)]
http://www.scifiscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/star_trek_enterprise_panoramic_1.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/defamer/2009/02/trek_corridor.jpg


TMP corridors 2 types
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1504/typesoo1.jpg


Enterprise-A service corridor
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/artoftrek/er-corridor-st5.jpg


Enterprise-D corridor
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/artoftrek/ed-corridor-st7.jpg


Intrepid Class VOYAGER corridor
http://www.webolutionary.com/3d/images/corridor_voy-7.jpg


A Turbolift Access Corridor- Deck C, USS Akyazi
http://starstation.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/corridor_04a.jpg

A Turbolift Access Corridor-Deck H Engineering, USS Phobos
http://starstation.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/untitled_11.jpg



Moon (2009) corridor
http://underdogblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/moon-movie-octagon-corridor.jpg


I don't feel this is the right discussion for comparison of smaller access tubes/corridors such as Jefferies Tubes.

 

[DonIago]

^You've got some hotlinks there.

 

[Dream]

Beh. They all look the same to me.

 

[sojourner]

Beh. They all look the same to me.

Well, the Star Trek ones do... Considering most of them are redresses of the same corridors.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Beh. They all look the same to me.

The production design of a corridor may be somewhat subtle but the original essay on the denofgeek site [on the original post] brings up a number of things like typefaces for writing and ID of corridors and locations, Aliens (1986) corridors of the atmosphere processing station and colony on LV-426 setting the blueprint for first-person-shooter videogames as well a the 2002 remake of Solaris being a very possible style in the near future.
Also corridors from Red Planet (2000) & Moon (2009) really have a 2001:A Space Odyssey influence with the hexagon design motif.


Lighting as usual plays an important role in how a corridor appears in the production design.

 

[T'Girl]

The original Alien's corridors were ultra-cool,. Begining of the film you got that long slow look at them. Reminded me of the time my school took me on a tour of a off-shore oil rig. TNG's halls were more like a hotels, for that reason the most realistic.