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Goblet of Fire Set Report:
Virginia Water Lake
It's Monday 29th November, we have just got back from watching the filming for Goblet of Fire at Virginia Waters.
After watching the progress of the sets for the last four weeks, we arrived and walked to the sets all near the Roman Ruins.
We arrived at about 2pm, about 3/4 of the car park is now full of marquees, trailers and equipment lorries.
When entering the car park first of all we saw Robbie Coltrane's Silver trailer (Hagrid). Then when we first got out of the car, we noticed Daniel Radcliff's car and spoke to his driver, he's a great guy, funny and really nice. So we knew that Dan was there today.
Walking the quarter of mile around the lake to the sets, we could see that the security was very much tighter. The whole place was also very muddy now and they diverted us by foot through the woods. When we got to the first set they were filming by the lake.
First of all we saw Barty Crouch (who was dressed as though he had stepped out of a Dickens novel), he was friendly and was looking at the crowd and liked the fans attention.
We noticed that there was a remote control that someone was holding and expected to see some animatronics animal or puppet. After looking around we then saw Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleesan, dressed similar to how Hagrid would be dressed and quickly realised that the remote control was for his Mad eye). He was in makeup and cloaked in security and although we could easily see his face, eye patch and eye there was so much security that it was impossible to get a clear photo of him. He didn't really look at the fans at all and didn't seem to be bothered that people were here to support him. He gave no interaction to the waiting crowd and didn't even look or smile.
We also saw Emma Watson (who is always so happy and friendly to the fans), Tom Felton who was dressed in Navy and had a woolly hat, and we walked directly past Dan without realising until it was too late. As we were desperate to get a photo of Mad-Eye Moody we didn't go back to Dan who was signing a few autographs about one hundred yards away. He was on his own and with his chaperone' he looked very tired, sad even. It was a very cold day and maybe it was just that, or maybe he's just starting to lose interest in the whole thing.
There were three sets, the main one which has taken five weeks to build, was a Rope Pulley Ferry boat system leading from one side of the lake to the other, with two boats on each side. They had built a Boat Jetty on one side of the lake and we understand that in the movie these boats were bringing people across from the other side of the lake.
The second set was another boat jetty, this had about five canoes, and a life buoy, and we didn't see the filming of this one. The third filming was of a big crowd (about 100 extras) of Hogwart school kids with Mad-Eye Moody walking in the middle of the crowd.
We understand that from Tuesday and for the rest of the week that they will be filming near the waterfall in Virginia Waters.
We have noticed that there is such a big difference between the nice people who work for Harry Potter Productions here and the horrible people who don't care about the fans. We did ask security and some of the crew if we would be able to try and get an autograph from Mad-Eye Moody after they had finished filming, but they said there would be no chance and that they are here to work and not sign autographs, if we want autographs then we could go to the Movie Premier and wait outside. At other times the security were really rude telling people to hurry up out of the way (even people who live near and go there everyday and were just there to walk their dogs)
This time at the end of the day all of the Stars were ushered into their cars and their fans didn't even get a look in. No other autographs were given.
It's such a shame, there are some really great Guys both cast and crew and there are others who feel that they are too important to even care that we have travelled an hour to go there with our kids.
Set report courtesy of Winkeglasse.net. November 29, 2004.
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