Production
Noah and Saskia is an international co-production produced in Australia by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Each episode of the show follows one of the main characters in their home country - Saskia in Australia, or Noah in England. Each country has an independent cast. As a result, the two main characters never met before or during the production. Moreover, all of the Australian footage was filmed before Jack Blumenau had been cast as Noah. Furthermore, the two halves are very different stylistically; Saskia directly addresses the camera and has flashbacks and daydreams, while Noah's side is shown objectively.
Noah and Saskia meet on the internet on a comic that Noah created call Webwave. These scenes are either depicted as a 3D chat room or as a fantasy sequence. In Noah's fantasy sequences, Noah sees Saskia as a human version of her persona, Indy, usually in a stylised setting. Saskia's fantasies show Noah as his character, Max, projected onto reality. As Max only appears in Saskia's fantasies, he is a part of the Australian cast, despite being an imaginary version of an English character. Likewise, Indy is a part of the English cast.
Noah and Saskia meet in person in the last episode of the series. However, the scene was created digitally after filming Jack Blumenau and Hannah Greenwood separately. In the final shot of this scene Noah and Saskia are standing face to face. When Hannah Greenwood filmed this shot, Noah had not been cast. To ensure the two characters appeared to be looking directly at each other, three different versions of Saskia's half of this shot were filmed, with Hannah Greenwood looking at Noah stand-ins of three different heights.
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