Noah and Saskia

Noah and Saskia
From left to right: Noah, CGI and real Max Hammer, real and CGI Indy, Saskia
Genre	Teen's
Created by	Patricia Edgar Chris Anastassiades Paul Nichola
Directed by	Pino Amenta
Starring	Jack Blumenau Hannah Greenwood Cameron Nugent Hayden Rathbone Adrian Fergus Fuller Emily Wheaton Alex Yates Maria Papas
Country of origin	United Kingdom Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Patricia Edgar (ABC) Elaine Sperber (BBC)
Producer(s)	Patricia Edgar
Running time	24 minutes
Release
Original network	CBBC ABC
Original release	4 May 2004
External links
Website	www.abc.net.au/rollercoaster/noahandsaskia/

Noah and Saskia is a 13-episode children's television program co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and British Broadcasting Corporation. The show explores a situation in which two teenagers meet in an Internet chatroom, using personas that are very different from their true selves. They become friends, but both fear having the other discover their true identities.

Cast

Noah King - Jack Blumenau - a socially inexperienced boy from London, England. He lives with his mother, football-loving father and brother and later his cousin Eddie. He runs a webcomic called "Max Hammer", which is based of his life and the people around him. Later in the series, his personality changes into becoming more like Max, such spending less time online, getting a girlfriend for a time and even playing football.
Saskia Litras - Hannah Greenwood - A shy, musical girl from Melbourne, Australia. She lives with her single mother, works at the Chicken Coop after school. Her original reason for creating the charecter of Indy was to confront Max for stealing some of her music illegally, although this leads her to become Noah's partner in his webcomic "Max Hammer". As the series progresses, her personality changes into more like being Indy, such as playing music in public and even becoming more confident at school. At first she had a crush on Max, but these feelings faded for a time when Max told her he only thought of her as a friend.
Max Hammer - Cameron Nugent
Indy - Maria Papas
Renee -Emily Wheaton
Clive - Adrian Fergus Fuller
Specs - Alex Yates
Eddie - Eugene Simon
Deb Litras- Tracy Mann

Themes

Noah and Saskia is about an internet relationship between two teenagers and its effects on their lives. Although the teenagers deceive each other with "false personas", their relationship is shown to be positive and important.

Saskia finds that her alter ego, Indy, allows her to express aspects of her personality that she is uncomfortable with or unable to express normally. Indy is confident and sexy where Saskia is nervous and shy. By asking herself "What would Indy do?", Saskia learns to be more assertive and, in some ways, becomes Indy herself.

From the ABC website: "'Noah & Saskia' is about a little lie that leads to a bigger truth - that who you say you are is usually who you want to be."

Many novels, films and books that deal with internet relationships depict them as dangerous, especially for teenagers. The more balanced view put forth in Noah and Saskia has been welcomed by many people who have experienced internet friendships firsthand.

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 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.

Also Known As

Noah & Saskia (English)
Um Par Quase Perfeito (Brazilian Portuguese)
Ной и Саския (Russian)

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