Like most popular series, it all started with an author with brilliant ideas. According to JK Rowling, she said that, on a crowded train in London, the idea of Harry “suddenly fell into her head.”
Yes, it’s obvious about what this site is about. Not just the books, though. Particularly the movies.
Although it annoys me sometimes that some parts in the book are altered, left out, or overdramatized in the films, have you wondered how all those special effects were created? You know some of those things couldn’t happen in real life, even though the movie makers did a great job of making it look realistic. For example, did you know the underwater sequence in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire took half a year to produce what you saw on the screen?
And in the upcoming posts, you’ll not only learn how producing the movie works, but you’ll see links to videos of short film montages, cast interviews, and maybe even a few bloopers.
What is the basic concept behind all the movies? It’s through a process called green screen acting.
Like the name says, actors literally act in front of a green screen while beeing taped. Once that film clip is loaded to a computer. The green allows the movie producers to technologically mess around with the background or add in objects that don’t really exist, such as dragons. There is also a similar process the same as green screen acting, only it is called blue screen acting, and again as the name says, actors literally act in front of a blue screen. All Harry Potter movies have used a combination of both filming techniques. Though technically they are the same the process, green screen apparently appears to be a more popular choice.
Green screen isn’t only used for Harry Potter films. It has also been used for all of the Narnia films to date as well as the recent The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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