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00:00The style and tone of season two is obviously influenced quite a lot by the setting, the

00:11magnificent Glasshouse Mountains.

00:13Season one had sweeping cane fields and golden light, but season two is very much defined

00:18by these giant monoliths that sort of jut hugely into the sky out of the green valleys

00:24there.

00:25This season, when I discovered we were doing the Glasshouse Mountains and how significant

00:29they are, I wanted to have the mountains feeling they had the kind of oversight over

00:34the characters and dramas that the cane fields did over the characters in the first season.

00:39So you have these kind of primordial mountains that you feel have witnessed everything in

00:43time and now looking down on the troubles of these families and individuals as they

00:49unfold.

00:50When you have this many characters, when you have two time frames, you need to go back

00:54to that one geographical place where the audience can go, I know where I am.

01:00And if that place is extraordinary, nor the better, because when we found that, was that

01:03moment I always go back to and say we've found the heart of Black Snow season two.

01:08They lend the show a sort of slightly gothic, eerie feel and that's something that we discussed

01:14a lot in pre-production with the heads of department, with cinematographers and directors

01:18about how we imbue the show with that slightly eerie, slightly gothic sense, almost ghostly

01:25in a metaphorical way because it's a missing person story.

01:29We found many, many ways to film these mountains and to show their beauty and their power.

01:34One way you shoot them, they're incredibly gothic and they loom over you and there is

01:38a, not a fear, but they have an overwhelming presence.

01:42Another way you can film them, they're welcoming, they're sort of embracing you and there is

01:47a safety to them.

01:48When you're underneath those mountains, they can be very still, they can protect you from

01:53the wind and the weather elements which up there, believe me, are wild.

01:57It was a place that Zoe was drawn to, she ran among them, she was drawn to their beauty

02:02and their posture, if you like.

02:04There's kind of almost a sense that these ancient sentinels maybe bore witness to something

02:09that no one else did that night and maybe they have the answers and it's Cormac's job

02:14to find it out, but that the Glasshouse Mountains have borne witness to it and known it all along.