Where do they film no mans land scenes?
You see these scarred, treeless landscapes in lots of WW1 dramas. Where are they filmed? Is there still somewhere that looks like that? Or is it fractals/CGI?
shareWhere are they filmed? Is there still somewhere that looks like that? Or is it fractals/CGI?De, the war scenes were filmed in Hungary. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127876/locations?ref_=tt_ql_dt_6
There was a bit about filming there on the DVD extras about how the landscape closely resembled the chalky French soil and the two leads got to explore a newly discovered tunnel from that war. It also talked about how easier it was to get the costumes done there since they could recreate the military uniforms in Budapest using the same techniques and materials as from the 1900's.
You'll find a bit about filming here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/d77a5329-1072-362b-96b9-ef740cf6d70e
Were the sets built or on location?share
For the war story, we built sets just outside Budapest. I felt the audience's experience of the trenches should be 360, so we searched for a piece of ground which gave us uninterrupted views of the horizon. Production designer Grant Montgomery used hundreds of dead trees, quarried chalk and reclaimed timber to create an extraordinary world. For the French story, set in pre-war Amiens, we filmed on location in Budapest. This was perhaps the trickiest bit, as there's no tradition of the kind of architecture we were looking for.