What is the walkthrough for back lot island?

Answer 1

Back Lot Island is the 34th island of Poptropica, released for general play on April 25, 2013. The quest involves working at a movie studio in various roles, ending with the completion of a short film.

This solution contains all spoilers. There is a more detailed version at the related question below and a video walkthrough at the Related Link below.

Arriving on the island

The businesses along Sunrise Street are: Wax Museum (multiplayer room), Queequeg's Coffee, Digital Dreamscapes (film animators), the Talent Agency, another Queequeg's Coffee, and farther right the Chinese Movie Theater, Souvenir shop, and the closed Film Studio.

1) After the paparazzi leave, enter the One-of-a-Kind Talent agency, whose owner will suggest you could make money by working for Harvey Scoops, who publishes a gossip blog.

2) Go right past the Chinese Theater, where you can see the star on the sidewalk for legendary director Carson Willis. Continue right.

3) Meet is Harvey Scoops, who gives you a camera to get photos for him.

4) Go back left, outside the Wax Museum, where a veteran photographer will give you some film for your camera. use the film.

5) Return to the studio and climb to the highest patio, where you can look down into the studio lot. An earthquake hits, the balcony collapses, and you fall.

At Sound Stage One

8) Go right from the painted backdrop next to the door of Sound Stage 1. Meet Sofia May, assistant to Carson Willis, who is secretly filming a movie.

9) Go inside, where your interruption causes temperamental star Kirk Strayer to become upset and leave. Sofia suggests you head to Kirk's trailer to convince him to come back to work. You will use the electric cart to get there.

Driving the Electric cart

10) Drive one block down and one right to Kirk's trailer. When you knock, he tosses out a coffee cup and says to refill it. It is a Half-Caf Leviathan Latte-Espresso.

11) Get back in the cart, drive back to Sound Stage 1 (upper left) and exit the cart. Walk left to the gate of the studio, which is now open for you to use, and exit to the street.

Getting the Coffee

12) There are two Queequeg's Coffee shops. But neither has the size or type of coffee you need. However, you can MIX small cups from the two shops to make the special blend, which is reduced caffeine, half latte, half espresso.

-- At the shop next to the Talent Agency, get an Infant Coffee, full caf.

-- At the shop next to Digital Dreamscapes, get an Infant Latte, decaf.

Select and use either to mix the two into the larger cup. Go back to the trailer. Kirk is apparently coming back to work. Go to Sound Stage 1.

The Studio Tasks

13) On Sound Stage 1, take over the camera and keep Kirk in the center of the frame as he goes left, jumps up the stairs, jumps right, walks right, runs left, goes downstairs, and finally runs out to the right. (You get as many takes as you need.)

14) On Sound Stage 2, two blocks right, the script hasn't arrived. Drive back to Sound Stage 1 and climb onto the roof, but the completed pages blow away onto Sunrise Street. Leave the studio and find the 4 pages

-- by the TV antenna above the Souvenir Store

-- on the roof of the Chinese Theater - use the eves to bounce up

-- atop the first Queequeg Coffee shop

-- at far left above the Wax Museum

Click on the pages and assemble them in order, pages 1 to 4.

15) Return to the studio, drive to Sound Stage 2, and deliver the script. But they need an actress. Leave the studio go to the Talent Agency, whose owner just happens to be ex-actress Lacey Williams.

16) You get to star in the scene as the Navigator. Go far left and get dressed. Your lines are But/( offer her a compass)/ Safe journeys /Nooooo!

17) At Sound Stage 3 (near lower left), build the prop train by assembling the wood pieces.

18) Take the cowboy hats from the upper right and get actors to play the cowboys: Willy Bingleman in the first Queequeg (black hat) and the actor doing motion capture at Digital Dreamscapes (white hat).

19) Coordinate the special effects in the train scene, pressing the buffalo, the tornado, and the black hat (villain).

20) At Sound Stage 4 (lower right on the lot), Kirk Strayer refuses to do a King Kong role, so you get the part. Put on the Gorilla Suit. Climb to the top of the building, popping all the green balloons and smashing the soldiers and cannon.

21) Go one block left to Post Production, where you will edit video and audio for a completed scene.

Post Production

27) Film Editing: On the three film strips, highlight the error frame and use the razor blade to remove it:

-- cowboy's gun (banana) falls out

-- boom microphone visible

-- wires sticking out of mechanical animal

28) Sound Editing: Use the Foley devices to add sound effects for each of the three scenes, when you see the red light flash indicating a sound to add

-- Balloon scene: click rain sound first (far right) then metal shade (thunder) then balloon popping, then the cup (splash).

-- Animal scene : click the flame sound, then the plate clattering, then the bear, then the ghost, when the red light flashes

-- Cowboy Scene : click the buffalo first, then the coconuts (hoof sounds), then the train whistle, then the punch sound (paddle)

-- King Kong scene : use the fan (plane sound), then the anvil sound (crunch on building), then the gorilla howl, then the bottle (sound of falling through air)

Film Premiere

29) Take the completed film reels to the Chinese Theater. Talk to Sofia outside. Inside, climb to the projection room and show the movie, which makes no real sense at all. Outside, Sofia gives you the Island Medallion.

BONUS QUEST (Paid Members Only)

- You will return to the studio to turn off a camera, but when you pick it up, you are confronted by the property owners, the Warren sisters. They have studio security chase you in your cart around the studio grounds. If you evade them for 90 seconds, you win. If they run into you enough times, you lose. As you proceed, more of the carts are chasing you, but there are speed-ups (rockets) and repair dots (green).

- The easiest way, other than endlessly circling the streets, is to drive right, then down and left to Sound Stage 3, which has an alley on the right side. If you can get into the alley, and have a crate fall behind you, the security carts can't hit you, and you will win when time expires.

- You get to keep the Movie Camera, which is just a handheld item.

Notes:

- After you finish the island, the scenes at Sound Stages 2, 3, and 4 are still as you last saw them, with Willis, Sophia, and the actors.