Chapter Eighty-Three: Shooting Fun Facts
This moved the female guest a lot, because she wanted to go to the playground since she was a child, but her family never allowed it, and in the midst of blood and scheming, interspersed with such a touching plot, "The Bachelor" took over "American Idol", and quickly attracted a large number of North American audiences, especially those adult men and women and housewives.
It seems a little numbing, but the new show "The Bachelor" quickly gained a foothold again and became another resident program on Fire Lion TV.
At the same time, in the second half of this summer file, the second round of this year's "Survivor Season 4" also followed "The Bachelor" on Wednesday's prime time.
In the North American television circle, with the exception of NBC, which is "Friends", I have once again entered the rhythm of Fire Lion TV.
With the passage of time, the lively summer file finally ushered in the end of the season.
With the summer blockbusters coming offline one after another, the crew of "Harry Potter" in the UK has also started a busy journey across the UK. Because of Britain's nearly 1,000-year-old medieval history, countless ancient castles are located in the British Isles, which has also become the best location for the "Harry Potter" crew.
After all, what more convincing setting could be than the real castle and western-style museum?
In the previous locations, the crew was filmed in south-central England, and this time the crew's first stop was Hogsmeade Station in Goathland, North Yorkshire.
This was the starting stop for Harry's enchanted train station leading to Hogwarts House after crossing Platform Nine and Three-Quarters!
"Action!" Sid ordered, Harry pushed the cart out of the hallway, and the camera followed him to the giant steam train.
The red and black steam locomotive is inscribed with the words "Hogwarts Express".
This train was specially purchased by the crew from a train museum in London last year, except for the necessary modifications, and a certain degree of painting, the appearance of the general appearance has retained the style of the sixties and seventies, which is also deliberately done by Sid, so as to create a good sense of simplicity in the film.
At the same time, in order to shoot the campus scene of Hogwarts House, the crew also rushed to the major famous schools in England to shoot - the college cafeteria of Christ Church of the University of Oxford, which is the Hogwarts student auditorium, where many important plots are unfolded.
Whether it was the first time Harry and the others entered the house, and the Sorting Hat assigned everyone to the house, or the place where everyone had many important dialogues and advanced the plot many times later.
It's just that when Sid and the others came here, they were a little surprised to find that the size of this college cafeteria was much smaller than in the movie, and the spacious hall that could be five rows side by side in the movie actually only had three rows of long tables.
In order to shoot the effect of being open and spacious, Sid discussed with the special effects artist of Industrial Light & Magic before deciding on the shooting method of wide-angle photography and post-production special effects. In this way, the cafeteria, which was originally a compact three-row dining hall, was transformed into a large space that could easily accommodate five rows of long tables.
At the same time, after the filming of this scene is completed, the dome space will be stretched with special effects to create the feeling of a towering magical building.
In addition, the crew also filmed in many famous British schools such as the University Library of Oxford, the Port Leien Library of the University of Oxford, and the famous Eton College.
Outside of these schools, the crew also traveled to private castles, such as Alnwick Castle in Scotland, where the crew filmed the exterior of Hogwarts House and the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff in the film.
This 700-year-old castle is the ancestral home of the local Duke of Northumberland for generations, and is second only to the famous Windsor Castle in London. The interior of the castle is quite extravagant and gorgeous, and even though it was only a visit during the filming period, everyone couldn't help but be amazed.
"Hello everyone, this is our contemporary Duke of Northumberland, His Excellency Duke Franson Northumberland. "When you visit casually while other people are taking pictures.
Sid and a few other core members were invited to the castle by the butler in a crisp suit to meet the owner of the castle.
"Hello, Your Excellency, thank you very much for the loan to us to shoot the film. Sid, as the leader of the crew, of course, had to say thank you first.
"Where, there, we can't be happy to have a Hollywood crew to make a movie. Whether it's for our family or for local tourism, I think it will help. Although he has the title of duke, this British uncle is very kind to talk to Sid and others.
Sid didn't expect the other party's vision to be very good, in addition to the influence of the movie itself, "Harry Potter" and after it became really famous, the filming locations in the British Isles did have a lot of publicity and tourism effects.
"You have a good eye, and I assure you that Harry Potter is definitely going to be an excellent movie. Sid said with a smile.
"Then it's going to be released, and I'm going to take my family to watch the movie together. The Duke of Northumberland also laughed wittily.
Just as the group was talking happily, the Duke of Northumberland suddenly asked seemingly unintentionally: "That, Mr. Leon." ”
"No, no, please call me Sid. Sid said with a smile.
The Duke of Northumberland smiled and said, "Where are you going to rest today?"
"Rest?" Sid tilted his head in confusion, "Of course it's a hotel in town, and our entire crew lives in town. ”
"No, no, no, how can a distinguished guest like you live in town?" said the Duke of Northumberland, waving his hand, "please rest at our Alnwick Castle." ”
"Eh, is that good?" Sid asked with a chuckle.
"Of course, it is the luck of our Northumberland family to receive a distinguished guest like you. The Duke of Northumberland smiled slightly.
Looking at the other party's smile, Sid intuitively seemed to have something wrong, but he was embarrassed to refuse the other party's hospitality, "Then I'll be respectful and not obey." ”
It wasn't until dinner in the evening that Sid understood the meaning of the Duke's meaningful smile.
"Come, come, Sid, let me introduce you, this is my daughter Anna, who is now at university in Cambridge. The Duke of Northumberland pulled a young woman in her early twenties and introduced Sid with an enthusiastic face, or rather, a salesman.
Sid regretted his bowels at this time, he knew that he would not be greedy for the dinner of the British nobles, and he didn't eat a good dinner, and he turned into the scene of the real "The Bachelor".