Mad Max 2 Compound Layout

[Gasoline]

Looking at the photo below (or above depending on how your preferences are setup) makes me wish the compound was still standing.....
Would make a brilliant tourist attraction.

Having said that, it would be pretty lifeless and expensive just having a huge lifesize movie prop sitting there so you would need to introduce some sort of business;
I'm sure if you set up a brewery as part of the building, people would enjoy having a novelty 'Dystopian lager' on the same spot Mad Max 2 was made.

...of course you could then expand:
Canvas roofed pub.
Open air meal servery
Merchandise tent

Any other ideas?

[Peter Barton]

Here's a different shot from the rear. The original shot makes things look a little closer to each other and smaller than they possibly are, there's nothing parked in the background, and it's also taken from the air using a zoom - the distance to the compound from the photographer is probably more than the distance between the compound and the pinnacles, so they look closer together. This shot gives a different perspective on the scale, same compound, but the truck in the distance now gives a better idea to scale, and how far away the pinnacles were in comparison.

[Peter Barton]

Another perspective again, this time from the front.

[croft007]

Wow yes I see them( the BOB'S ) SOOOO COOL...POSSIBLY THE ONLY REAL SHOT OF THEM TOGETHER...!!!!? These pics are incredible..well done and thankyou to all contributers, sensational.....

[rockatansky4073]

Perspective's still funny, we all know the joints big cos we see it in the movie housing people, vehicles and a bigarse tanker, but looking at the black and white photo amkes it look sunken in the ground and makes that truck or van up on the right centre look huge. just funny, the persepctive.

[Daz]

Perspective's still funny, we all know the joints big cos we see it in the movie housing people, vehicles and a bigarse tanker, but looking at the black and white photo amkes it look sunken in the ground and makes that truck or van up on the right centre look huge. just funny, the persepctive.

Telephoto lens flattens it all out.
I'm sure there are camera experts on the forum who can explain it better, but some lenses flatten the image losing all perspective. I don't quite follow it myself, but it's almost the opposite of a fisheye lens.

[MFP1]

I stumbled on a flash. I always wondered about the origin of the yellow sedan in the "Interceptor Wreck" photo, the owner was involved only in MM2 as far as I know, and here it is on wheels in the top compound photo. Am I amigining it or did I just make a connection???

[Peter Barton]

I always wondered about the origin of the yellow sedan in the "Interceptor Wreck" photo, the owner was involved only in MM2 as far as I know, and here it is on wheels in the top compound photo. Am I amigining it or did I just make a connection???

Which compound photo do you see it in / where? I see an XD ute and a Kingswood in the aerial shot, I don't see this. It's a yellow Leyland P76 from memory. It was used in a Paul Hogan commercial in the mid 80's, the car was made to "fly" by being suspended from a helicopter. The car is modified through the centre of it to allow it to be suspended from the cable. It was dumped out there at Broken Hill when they were done - most likely the engine was already pulled from it before they took it to the air. Unfortunately, although it was described to me, I do not actually recall the ad, or have a copy of it. Perhaps it is on YouTube somewhere these days.

For reference, the guy who owns it has worked on many film and TV productions out there. If you watch the Getaway segment that's on the YouTube channel, they talk about how often the locations out there are used. On one of my trips up there they'd just finished working on Mission Impossible 2, and were living in half the cattle station that had been used in the film (the set was cut in half to transport it on and off the claypan).

[rockatansky4073]

Thanks Daz, you're right about composition n' shit and i bloody did photography back in college too tsktsk

[MFP1]

This is the one I though was at the old Wrecks site. Just looked close enough in the low res photo to be a possibility.... cool to know the true story behind it though!
Thanks again Peter.