Warner Bros’ Thailand Facebook has released two video featurettes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I entitled ‘The Characters’ and ‘The Malfoys and Bellatrix’. Watch them below:
In a new interview Emma Watson has revealed a scene that has been added to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. The scene involves the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione and Ron. Find out what that scene is below:
MTV has posted a new interview with production designer Stuart Craig where he talks about filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He discussed the challenges of filming the Sword of Gryffindor scene.
Another one of the production’s major challenges — and accomplishments — was shooting the sequence in which Harry retrieves the Sword of Gryffindor at the bottom of a frozen lake. “There was a really demanding, complicated special-effects requirement there to do the ice,” Craig said. “I think that all works remarkably quite well, actually. Harry breaking the ice, diving in and then subsequently strangled by the Horcrux around his neck and is struggling and can’t get up quickly because of the ice above him. It’s good stuff.”Which begs the question: How did Craig and his team pull off that scene, and what do they use to make the ice look so real? “As always, well, as nearly always, there’s more than one solution. The camera on top, looking from the outside down on it. It’s big, thick sheets of Plexiglass with frosty texture on top of that,” he revealed. “When we’re underneath, it’s actually an area of wax which floats on top of the water. And wax makes very effective ice. They’re tried and tested movie techniques; there are a lot. You could write a book one day, a guidebook, to the very movie techniques — frost on window panes with some Epsom salts and brown nails.”
Premiere.fr have posted a new interview with Clemence Poesy, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps and Mark Williams where they all discuss what it has been like being a part of the series and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. Mark Williams talks about what it was like seeing the younger actors grow up. Unfortunately, Clemence speaks in French so I have no idea what she says, if anyone can translate please send it in! They also talk about the Twilight vs. Harry Potter “battle”.
Tom Felton recently told Hero Complex that he would have one day of reshoots for the epilogue that will be at the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. At the NYC premiere he joked to us that he wasn’t going to reshoot but the non-professional actors would be reshooting.
“I got the call today,” Felton said Tuesday. “I have to go back for one more day of reshoots. So I’m going back in a couple weeks to do, literally, one more day. I knew that Dan, Rupert and Emma were called in and I was enjoying that, I was joking that, ‘Oh, I got it on the first take so I don’t need any of that, going back to do it again.’ And here I am eating my own words and going back to redo it. They just want to get a couple of extra camera shots. I don’t think anything was done wrong, they just want to cover it more. It could literally be a case of panning the shot five degrees to the left or whatever just to make sure the CGI shot work. So I’m going to go and serve my duty.”
Reelz Channel has emailed over their next segment from their Potter special that Tom Felton hosted. In this segment Tom and Jason Isaacs talk about the Malfoys in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I.
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