A new TV spot for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has appeared online! You can watch the new spot, which has new scenes from Malfoy Manor and more below:
Warner Bros have released production notes for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. The notes include some great interviews with the cast and crew! You can read all of the production notes here!
Composer Alexandre Desplat, who created his first Harry Potter score for “The Deathly Hallows – Part 1,” agrees. “Our heroes are constantly in motion, so I wanted the music to follow the thread of their journey, and find just the right balance between the action, suspense and emotion.”
“Alexandre’s music expresses so many different colors and emotions,” says Heyman. “His score has scale and intimacy, darkness and light.”
“My goal was to give the film an original musical imprint,” Desplat continues. “At the same time, I wanted to carry on the rich musical tradition of the composers who have scored the previous Harry Potter films in keeping with the series’ great heritage.”
WB have just emailed to let us know about an awesome competition to win a Ministry of Magic Visitor’s Badge that was made for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. To enter you just have to sign up for their insider rewards program, here! The prizes are as follows:
First prize: Harry PotterTM Years 1-6 Blu-ray™ combo pack and a Sony Playstation®3 with built-in Blu-ray player plus remote to watch the films on. Second Prize: $100 gift certificate to WBshop.com good on Harry Potter merchandise. Third Prize: $50 gift certificate to WBshop.com good on Harry Potter merchandise.
You must be 13 or older and live in the US to enter; all rules may be found here!
Movies.com have just emailed to let us know about their three part set report from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. They have interviews with Warwick Davis, production designer Stuart Craig, Matthew Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, costume designer Jany Temime and more! You can read the reports at the following links: one | two | three
Craig’s attachment to the entire series is a bit unusual but since he has designed the sets from the beginning, his eye for continuity has proven valuable. “I said to every one of [the directors], ‘You don’t have to have me,'” he laughed. “I know what we did before and how to rebuild it, but it isn’t as necessary as it appears. I think the changes of director have been exciting and stimulating and entirely good for the whole project. A change of designer would’ve produced similarly interesting results, I’m sure.”It’s been especially challenging for the filmmakers to adapt the books since many details of the final chapters had not yet been revealed. Craig said they’ve had to rebuild and revise many Hogwarts sets to accommodate additions. “When we started, there were just two novels. Not everything was known. We didn’t know [about the Room of] Requirement. Certain changes have been forced upon us. The astronomy tower’s had to pop up in the middle of the whole complex and the forecourt in front of it has had to get bigger and bigger to accommodate the battle at the end.”
As the series has gotten progressively darker, the crew has changed the color of the sets to match the films’ seriousness and emotional content. “The sets have literally gotten darker. That rather attractive sort of honey color, we’ve gone and painted out.”
Comcast TV subscribers can watch a new feature on their televisions that goes over old and new characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. For those of us who can’t watch there you may watch the video below:
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