Goblet of Fire set report: Leavesden Studios
Written by HP4U.co.uk
At last I've made it to the UK! And what's made this even more memorable than anything else? Seeing some actual filming! Course, not just any film would be worth it, but then again, Harry Potter isn't just ANY movie now, is it?
Well, I made it, and I thought I might do a little show and tell. Ok, less show, since there are NO cameras allowed on set :(
By the way, I'm not sure how long I'll be staying in the UK (as it's not a permanent move), and doubt I'll be able to see every single bit (hey! Even I try to pretend to have a bit of a life here), but will report what I can.
The set is the most amazing thing I've EVER seen. All the seats are raised in tiers, just like in the book, and it's all been made in a huge octagonal shape. The most amazing thing is the use of fire - real fire. There is a huge fireball lit in each corner and is used for the effect of the flames - it's awesome and made to look from the 360 degree camera as though it's in Dumbledore's memory (which of course it is).
Wow, I wish you could all get a picture of it - words cannot describe the effect. Made of course to look as though Harry has gone back in time, imagine Dickens and all those old bookshops, or Ollivanders, stacked full of items, this is the effect of the court, full, stacked with mountains of papers! The artwork and set decoration of the court room is immense, it looks ancient, Byzantium times, the old ruined golden paintings and the realism was great.
But, THE greatest prop was the "cage" Karakoff has to stand in, so much like a torture chamber, guards standing around him, prodding and poking him, turning head screws when he wouldn't give up the names of the other Death Eaters. These are guards from Azkaban and NOT Dementors as with the original book, police type figures for the escorting of Prisoners. The cage is something like a medieval cage evil men were put in alive to rot. He doesn't actually go into the cage or come in with it, instead, he comes up from the ground, and shoots up into it! There's two of these police type around him, to wind the screws in harder to the point where he cannot move a centimetre! They stand on either side, to torture him and prod him! They are dressed in black, army style, almost like the old German Gestapo. They have a big silver badge that reads Ministry of Magic, police, with weird looking creature pictured.
Only one final comment for now - Miranda Richardson, dressed in 1950's Hollywood style is just superb as the evil Rita Skeeter.
Set report courtesy of HP4U.co.uk. August 26, 2004.
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