[HPforGrownups] Trailer

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 13269

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Dai: "Following a marathon nine and half meg download over a 56k modem at
peak rate. I saw it. Um wow. I counted about 60-80 students at each table
in the great hall incidentally which gives about 350 odd students (adding
first years). Umm. What to say... The music sounded a bit generic, so I
would imagine that John Williams has not finished the actual score yet and
what I heard on the trailer won't appear in the film.
Little, details, not much out of order, except that Mr Dursley was holding
a shotgun not a rifle and the walls of the hut on the rock were stone not
wood."

Heidi: "And yes, cassie, rhysenn, etc., - they did lighten the hair of the
boy playing draco (personally, I think he looks fine!)

And I loved hermione's expression (and the frizziness of her hair) and want
to note, most prominently, that if there's that many kids in the
gryffindor-only transfiguration class, then there are 1000 kids in the
school...but I'm waiting for someone with more time than me to count the
number of people in the Great Hall, add an additional 13 percent to cover
the Ickle Firsties...and tell us the correct number."


Well in that lesson we can see 12 people in shot. Each person has a set of
textbooks and a feather in front of them (the set of text books in the top
right hand corner of the picture correspond to the kid in the top left who
should be Neville as Seamus is working with Harry (according to the books)
and Harry is in the front row). I would guess that as Hermione is a
workaholic (add extra stuff in here as you see applicable) she would be
seated in the front row. This means that if there is no one lese out of
shot (apart from Flitwick teaching) then there are 12 Gryffindors, 5 male
and 7 female (I leave someone else to work out who the mystery people are).

A bit later they run through a classroom, which corresponds to the
following picture of Durham Cathedral (I believe):
http://beta.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/Movie%20Settings/cla
ssroomDurham.jpg
This picture has 15 desks and I will leave you to guess on which lesson
they are for.

I guessed reckoned at 50-60 students seated at each table for the start of
year feast. This gives a student population of 230-280, but I am prepared
to agree with Dai that it might be a little higher. Certainly there is
nothing like 1000 people in that hall and to get 1000 in would require the
hall to be 2 to 3 times longer and it already looks to be absolutely
massive (I will stop here on the student numbers rant).


The Quidditch at Alnwick Castle looks fun. This is one part of the movie I
am really looking forward to. The next bit after that must be of the first
broomstick lesson, they have all just turned to look at something. I guess
that this something is Neville flying off. There are 26 people in shot, 25
students and Hooch with Neville flying off into the sunset out of shot.
Hooch is the one in the middle. Ron Harry Hermione and Seamus are the ones
behind her. Draco, flanked by Crabbe and Goyle, are those in front
(identifiable as they are much larger than the rest and have a blond in
between them).


Hagrid has been made to look big by a mixture of special effect and some
good old-fashioned camera trickery. Draco is blond and there is absolutely
no doubt about it. Worryingly Hermione's hair is blonder than mine and I
consider myself to be blond. Rickman as Snape looks to be an inspired
decision. That facial expression says it all.


And of course all those owls are cool.


Simon
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