Showing posts with label Production Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Production Video. Show all posts
Production Diary #10
Peter Jackson’s Video Blogs on the making of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey continues in this 10th installment, covering the movie’s Premiere in Wellington, New Zealand.
The video starts from the period 25th of November, a few short days before the world premiere. The movie is described as digitally dripping wet, with the crew still wrapping up the Dolby mix.
The theater to house the world premiere had 26 surround speakers which facilitated a 360 degree movement of sound.
A giant Gollum suspended on the ceiling of Wellington airport greeted visitors The dwarves disembarked from a plane and the remaining cast were reunited for the premiere in Wellington.
422 meters was the Guinness record for longest red carpet which was set for 2003 Return of the King premiere in Wellington. The red carpet this time doubled around the venue in an attempt to beat the previously set record.
The video starts from the period 25th of November, a few short days before the world premiere. The movie is described as digitally dripping wet, with the crew still wrapping up the Dolby mix.
The theater to house the world premiere had 26 surround speakers which facilitated a 360 degree movement of sound.
A giant Gollum suspended on the ceiling of Wellington airport greeted visitors The dwarves disembarked from a plane and the remaining cast were reunited for the premiere in Wellington.
422 meters was the Guinness record for longest red carpet which was set for 2003 Return of the King premiere in Wellington. The red carpet this time doubled around the venue in an attempt to beat the previously set record.
Production Diary #6
Stuff NZ reports:
The massive scale of The Hobbit production has been revealed in Sir Peter Jackson's latest on-set video.The video, posted this morning on Facebook, also promotes New Zealand tourism with a large portion of the comments posted raving about New Zealand's scenery.
In the video Sir Ian McKellen - who plays the wizard Gandalf - says New Zealand is shown at its ''spectacular best".
"Don't feel sorry for actors leaving home for seven-and-a-half weeks. We are very, very well looked after.'' The catering team estimated 100kg of meat was cooked each day for crew on location, and up to 300 coffees were made each morning.
On location in Central Otago up to 10 helicopters were in the area ferrying cast, crew, gear and food to remote mountain top locations, as well as doing aerial shooting.Near Turoa ski field on Mt Ruapehu a massive elevated structure was built so the crew did not damage vegetation.
And in Pelorus Bridge, between Blenheim and Nelson, the river was bridged to film the dwarves travelling down the river in barrels. But at the last minute the whole set-up had to be dismantled when police warned of severe weather coming on the notoriously fast-rising river.
"I have never see a crew pack up their gear so fast,'' Jackson said.
The next day the whole area they had been shooting in was under water. Two crews were criss-crossing the country doing the location filming and met half way, celebrating with a day 127 "half-way hoodie". The shoot has now returned to Miramar in Wellington for the final 100 days of shooting.
Peter Jackson Production Video Diary Number 4
Peter Jackson discusses how shooting the Hobbit in 3D is a dream come true.
If Jackson had the ability to shoot Lord of the Rings in 3D he say he would have. Jackson mentions that some 3D photos were taken during Lord of the Rings shooting, and perhaps will released some day on Blue Ray.
Hobbit Production Video diary online #3
Video Diary number three from the Hobbit Production diary is available from the Official Hobbit Blog with the following caption:
This just in from Peter Jackson, with the following note:
“Good news and bad news today. Bad news is that we won’t be doing any Hobbit presentation at Comic Con in San Diego this year. New Line and Warner Bros were very happy to support a presentation, but I declined, simply because I felt it was too early. There’s so much more of the films still to shoot. I just wanted to get that out there, because I’ve seen various references to the possibility of something Hobbity at Comic Con. Hate to disappoint anyone. But something tells me we will be there in force next year.
Now for the good news… We’ve just finished a new video blog, covering a little more of the first block of shooting. So please enjoy this—at least you don’t have to travel to San Deigo to see it! “
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