Along with various stunning and disarming spells, Harry shows the other members of the newly formed “Dumbledore’s Army” how to create a Patronus spell. Inside the Room, Harry and his friends quickly set about practicing their defensive magic. Once the design had been tweaked and approved, a hybrid 2D/3D approach was developed to create the scrolling patterns in the wall and the shot was completed with live action elements of falling sand streams.
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The Double Negative team then developed a series of concept boards showing the door revealing itself as a carving in the raw stone of the wall. For the scene in which Neville stumbles across the magical doorway to the Room, the production shot plates of the actor walking down a typical Hogwarts corridor with a blue screen filling the space where the door was to appear. As you can hear in our podcast this week, Paul Franklin found this early involvement critical to the film’s success.ĭouble Negative’s shot list was divided into four distinct geographical areas: Hogwarts, both inside and out the Forbidden Forest, where Harry and his friends encounter Grawp, Hagrid’s teenage half brother the Hall of Prophecy, a mysterious and cavernous storage space in the Ministry of Magic and the Veil Room, which lies at the very heart of the wizarding world.Īs well as handling much of the exterior work for Hogwarts, Double Negative also created an extensive sequence set within the hidden Room of Requirements, a magical space that only reveals itself in time of need. Work started in November 2005 with a small previsualisation and concept team being installed at Leavesden studios whilst Double Negative VFX supervisor, Paul Franklin, started laying down the groundwork for a pipeline that would touch almost every area of the finished film. Burke was keen to bring Double Negative on board as early as possible in the visual effects development process so as to get the maximum level of creative integration. In late 2005, Tim Burke, overall VFX supervisor for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, approached Double Negative to come on board as the lead VFX vendor for the show. While the film’s credits list 11 companies as having worked on the visual and special effects (see the end of the story for a listing), we catch up with Double Negative and a few of the other key effects houses that contributed to the film.
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Yates actually had a lot of television experience earlier in his career including directing the critically acclaimed TV movie The Girl in the Cafe – a Richard Curtis penned script that was nominated for 2 Golden Globes. The film was directed by David Yates who is also directing the next film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The company has grown over recent years, and in this week’s podcast we talk to Paul Franklin from Double Negative about Harry Potter’s Order of the Phoenix, and the some 900 shots completed by Double Negative. We also have notes from some other vfx shops involved in the movie.ĭouble Negative was awarded the vast majority of shots on the fifth Harry Potter film, making this the largest film Double Negative has done. We provide our own Patronus to explain the true wizards behind Privet Lane, giants, and charms, as well as go inside the Ministry this week in our fxpodcast with Double Negative’s Paul Franklin. Harry Potter is one of the great publishing stories of our time and the Warner Brothers films have consistently produced Muggles gold.
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