How did you shoot Harry Potter?
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For a small, modest amount of 1,000,000 poundssterling in 1999, JK Rowling sold the rights to shoot movies on the first 4 books of Harry Potter's adventures. At that time, 1000000 pounds sterling is a bit more than 1.5 million dollars. But the price is not so important as the condition of the contract, that a certain part will be received by the writer from the fees of each of the films. In addition, she had the right to control all stages of production of paintings. An indispensable condition for the writer was that necessarily in future films all actors must be only British. Only in the 4th film foreign actors appeared, as the content of the book required this. Quite detailed information you can find here - "Where did Harry Potter come from?".
The director of the picture
Steven Spielberg is the first contender for the seatthe director. But after several months of negotiations, he refused. His proposals for filming were not supported either by the author of the book or by the film studio. Then the director's place was labeled by many, but the choice was stopped by Chris Columbus. The positive response of Columbus was influenced by his daughter - a fan of the works of JK Rowling. For the selection of actors Suzy Figgis answered.
How Harry Potter was filmed: the process of filming
To shoot a picture of the adventures of Harry Potter beganin 2000 on 2 October. The first shooting took place in pavilions Leavesden Studios, which is located in London at a distance of about 50 km from the city. A lot of scenes that took place in Hogwarts and nearby, were filmed in the cathedral of Durham and Gloucester.
How to shoot Harry Potter, a video on the web will helpyou will understand this. Scenes in the library and hospital were filmed in two very old premises of Oxford University: the Duke Humfrey Library and the Oxford Divinity School. And the building in London of the Australian representation was used as a bank of magicians Gringotts. Filming also visited the London Zoo, and the Kings Cross station. July 2001 became the finish of the shooting process.
According to Columbus, in the film mustto participate special moving mechanical models designed to create magic creatures in the film. Computer graphics and animatronics were used for this purpose.
Computer special effects have become the basis forthe creation of the dragon of Norbert and the cave troll. The scene in the toilet with the cave troll happened with the addition of computer special effects: with the help of computer graphics, an image of Daniel Radcliffe, hanging on the neck of the terrible troll, was added.
976.5 million dollars - this amount was around the world the final fees of the film. Now you know how the film "Harry Potter" was shot.
