Two completely opposite routines, lived by the same characters. In Iron Island, series that debuts the first season in TV Globo on August 9, this is the reality of the employees of the PLT-137 platform, who are torn between the dilemmas on dry land and the boiling atmosphere on the high seas. The series shows the stories of Dante (Cauã Reymond) it's from Julia (Maria Casadevall), which, like other oil tankers, live at least two lives: one on land, the other at sea, where they spend two weeks entirely confined to the PLT-137, located an hour by helicopter from the Brazilian coast.
Dante is the platform's production coordinator, which is a record-breaker for accidents, and sees the dream of being promoted to manager go down the drain with the arrival of Júlia, the new occupant of the position. Early in the story, upon arriving ashore, the oil tanker has to deal with the discovery of a double betrayal. Your woman, Leona (Sophie Charlotte), with whom he has a tumultuous marriage, reveals that he has an affair with Bruno (Klebber Toledo), brother of Dante. Two brothers at war. Two women without peace. The quartet is formed that will face, each in its own way, countless extreme situations on land and at sea. More than oil, the PLT-137 extracts adrenaline and inflammable emotions from every episode.
The creation of the PLT-137 and special effects
One of the highlights of history Max Mallmann and Adriana Lunardi it's the post-production work. The creation of a high resolution platform; the study and simulation of different ocean conditions; the crash of a helicopter with details of the impact on water; a series of explosions and accidents at sea – these are some examples that required more than 30,000 hours of dedication to the production from the visual effects team. The technology is present from the first to the last episode. “The platform is something that can explode at any moment, an extremely dangerous type of industry. In addition, we have a very different amount of action, with several sequences”, explains Afonso Poyart, artistic director of the series. “The PLT-137 is different from every existing platform in Brazil. The visual effects team made an extremely realistic 3D model, worked on it for months creating incredible detail. Everything we have in terms of shots, more open, aerial scenes is totally 3D”, he details.
When the project started, all the team had were the references brought by Poyart himself. The team visited a real platform, studied the plant and had the advice of a specialized engineer. The scenography projected the entire inhabited part. Thus was born the PLT-137, a replica of an oil exploration platform of almost 3,000m² erected at Estúdios Globo, which concentrated almost 60% of the scenes from the first season of 'Ilha de Ferro'.
For the scenes inside the vessel, a 315m² set was built in a studio. The crew's cabins, control rooms, the infirmary and leisure areas for the oil tankers were set up at the site. The teams managed to make the PLT-137 real in an extremely realistic way. With all the details meticulously described by Adriana and Max, and with the certainty that the public will not be able to identify when it comes to computer graphics and when it comes to scenery.
This same work is carried out with the special effects department, the so-called physical effects. One of the examples is the helicopter crash, which will be shown in the first chapter. But it's not just action-adventure scenes that computer graphics are aimed at. The effects were also used to illustrate the surreal scenes that give the characters a psychological background. “I wanted to illustrate this feeling visually. Leona, for example, when she feels alone, drinks and dances, and, with the help of technology, the camera captures this universe. “Right now, she's a bit of a diva, with a retro inspiration, kind of 60s,” says Afonso. Dante, on the other hand, has a trauma: the accident with his brother. “All the time he dreams of Bruno and carries this guilt of having left his brother in a coma. Turns and moves he dreams of water, that he is drowning and that his brother is drowned. These moments are portrayed with the help of Effects”, explains Poyart.
A super production that mixes action, drama, adventure and romance in a story full of adrenaline and inflammable emotions. Ilha de Ferro is created and written by Max Mallmann and Adriana Lunardi, under the supervision of Mauro Wilson, and has artistic and general direction by Afonso Poyart, and direction by Roberta Richard and Guga Sander. The work will air from August 9, on Mondays and Wednesdays after Empire; on tuesdays after The Masked Singer Brazil; on thursdays in sequence under pressure; and on fridays after Globo reporter.
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