Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome the set for Bartertown built at an old brickworks (the Brickpit) at Homebush Bay in Sydney's western suburbs and the children's camp shot at the Blue Mountains. ""Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" proved far more challenging than "The Road Warrior"," said cinematographer Dean Semler. "We were dealing with more varied environments than before and it was essential that each of the worlds created for the film have a distinctly different look." The musical score for "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" was composed by Maurice Jarre, replacing Brian May, who composed the music for the previous two films. The film also contains two
Mad Max street of Clunes, north of Ballarat. Much of the streetscape remains unchanged. Some scenes were filmed at Tin City at Stockton Beach. The "execution of the mannequin" scene was filmed at Seaford Beach in Seaford, Victoria. "Mad Max" was one of the first Australian films to be shot with a widescreen anamorphic lens, although Peter Weir's "The Cars That Ate Paris" (1974) was shot in anamorphic four years earlier. Miller's desire to shoot in anamorphic made him seek a set of Todd-AO wide angle lenses used by Sam Peckinpah to film "The Getaway" (1972), which were damaged enough in that