GoF DVD

[Richard]

At 13:33 21/01/2006 , Valerie Flowe wrote:

>Yes...the things I hope to be more enlightened on in the DVD extras is
>what was involved in the process of creating 'fire-face Sirius; the
>dragon scene, ferret-Draco, the maze, the evolution of Voldemort. So
>many wonderful special effects!

Digital SFX are the one thing I do *not* want extensive DVD extras to 
cover. Every possible combination, from the creation of digital characters 
to animation and compositing are easy targets for featurettes and have been 
given far too much time in every SFX blockbuster there's been in the last 
few years, from Spider-Man through the LOTR trilogy to War of the Worlds, 
and hundreds of other films which didn't quite reach "blockbuster" status. 
If you want to know how any of those things were achieved (by example, if 
not specifically), watch any of the documentaries on any of the LOTR 
movies. Frankly, since those three, detailed examination of digital SFX is 
redundant.

As for HP, there's loads of material out there as to how things were done, 
and one of the SFX magazines (CineFX, if I'm not mistaken) have made 
lenghty and detailed analyses of each of the HP movies to date, including 
interviews with the creative teams involved.

Personally, I'm more interested in the creative process. I'd like to see an 
extended item on the way the scripts are brought into being and the 
re-write process, and comments from the directors on casting and shot 
selection.

Of course, something most people want are running directors' commentaries, 
but on this subject, speaking for myself, I'm less interested in anecdotes 
about who was late on the set or how two sequential shots were filmed three 
weeks apart, but why the director chose a particular focus in a particular 
scene and what he was trying to say. Probably 99% of all directors' 
commentaries I've heard are, frankly, boring.

>Has anyone heard if GOF has won any awards for that yet? I know the
>Golden Globes was last week here in the U.S., but I missed it. WIll
>have to go online to check the winners.

Not yet. I don't think it had any nominations for the Globes: off the top 
of my head, the Globes don't have any technical awards, and those are the 
only categories in which the HP series stands a chance. All I recall was 
being surprised by Narnia's nomination for best score: GoF (and several 
others) struck me as much more deserving.

--
Richard, glad to see that Valerie seems to have sorted out the technical 
glitches in her posts. :-)