Enterprise D holodeck - never a full-size set?

[docrice]

I've watched the various behind-the-scenes and interviews on the TNG DVDs, and I find it amazing that apparently there never was a life-size holodeck production set for filming scenes.

For example, in Schisms when Riker, Geordi, Worf, etc. are re-creating their "dream," they walk into the holodeck and have the computer change out tables and apparatus. As I'm watching it, I find it very convincing that this is a life-size set since blue-screening it with a miniature holodeck would mean that they had to time the camera pans, etc. very carefully with the physical actions of the actors.

Is it just me?

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Define full sized?

Sound stage or a "room?"

 

[docrice]

By full-size, I mean that the actors are in a space that they can walk around in. I got the impression from the behind-the-scenes interviews that the holodeck they filmed was actually a small-scale version that was perhaps only large enough to hold toy-size figures and actors had to be blue-screened. Maybe I misinterpreted?

 

[Klaitu]

The TNG holodeck was essentially a giant box with yellow tape on the walls, it is a set piece.. though there is bluescreen work with it when a character stands in the holodeck and activates or deactivates a simulation (or blows up some stuff with kreiger waves).

DS9 holosuites and the Voyager Holodeck also had practical sets.