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Source (Season 2 - November 20th 2024)

megsetdec: #ofmd fans! Did you know there’s a raffle happening for the gorgeous tiny boats from Madame Zheng’s cabin? These beautiful miniature boats are being raffled by the good people at @ofmd.buys.boats with all proceeds going to charity. So much goodness right there - plus a few cute shots from that goddam lovely set! Get yourself a boat! 🏴‍☠️

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Via Megan Vertelle's Instagram story (Season 2 - March 16th 2024)

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Source (Season 2 - November 24th 2023)

megsetdec: Calypso’s Birthday party was a real fun good old fashioned pirate knees up. The crew had done a day of shopping at the markets and now it’s time to cut loose. It was important to show that our party decs were piratey authentic and not something mass produced by the 18c Walmart. So our clever textile team painstakingly but somehow quite fast made the full run of silk lanterns and detailed bunting for the Revenge. To complicate matters the DOP had asked that these festoons be his primary light source to light the scene, so all of the fabrics had to be the perfect colour and density for that to work. Each one is different but made with a lot of set dec love ❣️🏴‍☠️

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Source (Season 2 - November 19th 2023)

megsetdec: So where do pirates go shopping on their day off when they need party supplies?? Well that’s what we had to figure out on this little backlot. Production designer Ra Vincent and art director Adam Wheatley cleverly designed some new Nassau style structures off the back of our existing pirates republic set and utilised a shallow pond structure that sells the look of a small port. We assembled all the small boats we had and designed canopy structures which our fabulous textile team did a custom fit awning for each. Then we got to work populating the stalls that were built around the circumference with the kind of things any good pirate might want to stock up on. So fancy fabrics, tropical blooms, sparkly crackers, good nosh, terrible rum and of course lanterns!! The day came to shoot this scene we’d all been looking forward to so much and my god the clouds rolled in and dropped the most sensational tropical downpour on all of us. But as they say “the show must go on” so we rolled back the tarps, unfurled the handstitched rainbow flag, donned our coats and got on with it. In the end I think the rain made everything look troppo & shimmery so it didn’t detract at all. Once the fabulous cast in their spunky @gypsytaylor costumes came into set doing such a good job of having a brilliant time (they’re always laughing!) the whole thing came together and it all felt spot on. Here’s to Calypso!! 🍹🏳️‍🌈🦜🏴‍☠️

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Source (Season 2 - December 1st 2024)

megsetdec: An affectionate look back on the crazed & cluttered living room set of Anne and Mary’s living room from #ofmd s2. The characters in the show are loosely based on real life characters Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who in real life were close friends and kindred spirits who met aboard Captain Rackham’s ship. They both spent much of their youth dressed as boys and had abandoned societal expectations to become pirates. Some historians believe they were lovers. In our story Anne (Minnie Driver) has set up shop as an antique dealer and after an unexpected reunion between Mary (Rachael House) & Blackbeard (aka Taika), we find these three & Stede (Rhys Darby) all thrown together into the living room behind the antique shop where a bit of sensual stabbing goes down and the boys are invited to stay for uncooked rabbits liver dinner. The set was a large room in a historic house so our location was incredibly sensitive with the restrictions of not being able to screw or stick anything down. We built the set with layers & depth, cable ties & scaff tube and smoke & mirrors. The set needed to convey the psychological madness of the relationship between Anne & Mary which we did through a lens of 18th C hoarders and by engaging an uncomfortable colour palette of salmon and chartreuse green. Also using double layers of poofy silk drapes created by @stitchninja & team. Once the crew arrived you can imagine the cluster with techs having to carefully navigate their gear in a sensitive historic home amongst psycho collections of hired antiques & furniture. Much fun was had by all!! 2nd to last pic shows the location before we started our dress. Super fun set on a super great show. More lady pirates please!! 🙏🏽🏴‍☠️🖤

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Source (Season 2 - December 12th 2023)

megsetdec: When bad pirates go bad. A few set shots from that day that Blackbeard had a real tanty and decided go dark on Stede’s cabin. I have to admit I always find it hard to vandalize a perfectly nice set but this is what one must do when method dressing! Last two pics show Stede’s dedicated handiwork when trying to make things all nice again. #piratelove

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Via Megan Vertelle's instagram story (Season 2 - December 13th 2023)

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Source (Season 2 - December 22nd 2023)

megsetdec: OK here’s one for the #ofmd fans! We had to make a publication for our characters, because every good set has the daily news lying around. Who knows which set these belong to? (and imagine the chuckles when we sent these through for clearance!)