This was the final day of our trip.
We were out of the house early and our tour started at 9:30. We took 788 photos (3.35GB of files) and all had a great day.
The tour is at Leavesden Studios, where many of the scenes from Harry Potter were filmed. The site was a former airfield and factory and produced fighter planes in WWII.
Outside:
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| The Outside |
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| Chess Pieces outside |
The Foyer
We picked up our tickets and joined the queue to get in. The foyer had a few displays and signs to read, but the line moved pretty fast.
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| Fantastic Beasts Costimes and props in the foyer |
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| Character Posters in the foyer |
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| Ford Anglia |
While we waited in the queue we passed a set for the Cupboard Under the Stairs:
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| Cupboard Under the Stairs |
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| The Set |
After passing through the queue we headed into a room with screens showing posters of Harry Potter from around the world. We were given an introduction and an idea of what was to come.
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| Posters |
Next we passed into a cinema where we saw a brief movie where Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint explained how they had lived, worked and studied on site and some stories about production. Then we moved to the doorway to the Great Hall.
Great Hall
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| Doors to the Great Hall |
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| Statues outside the Great Hall |
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| Outside Great Hall |
The doors were pushed open by all the kids who had a birthday that day and we went into the Great Hall.
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| Great Hall |
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| Each of the candle holders was a house symbol - Snake / Slytherin. |
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| Slytherin Costumes |
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| Gryphon - Gryffindor |
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| Griffindor Costumes |
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| Ravenclaw |
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| Hufflepuff Costumes |
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| Crest on the Fireplace |
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| This picture is a little blurry, but shows another crest in the fireplace - this isn't usually shown as its covered by the fire |
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| Snape costume |
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| Hagrid and behind him the beaded point counter for the houses |
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| Filch |
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| Dumbledore and the Owl Podium - Covered in real gold |
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| Mcgonagall |
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| Professor Trelawney |
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| Mad-Eye Moody |
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| Filius Flintwick |
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| The kids in front of the Podium |
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| Alana and Dumbledore |
Making of the Great Hall
After passing through the Great Hall we came into back area where we saw how they did the effects. The Great Hall actually had a standard roof, and the real roof was added in with digital effects. That way they could add the sweeping wooden beams.
The candles were initially tubes of oil hung by wires, but after a couple burnt through and fell, they were replaced by digital effects.
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| Floating Candle Info |
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| Framework supports for the Great Hall walls and pipimg |
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| Golden Snitch hidden in the candles - there were several of these hidden throughout the displays |
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| Scale model of the Great Hall used to plan shots |
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| Model |
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| Great Hall Roof that is digitally added |
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| Ceiling Info |
Next we saw the sets used to create the special events in the Great Hall - the Chocolate feast and the Yule Ball in The Goblet of Fire.
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| Yule Ball |
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| Yule Ball Costumes |
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| Chocolate Feast |
After these were a series of posters about the staff and the roles they performed:
Costumes and Hair
The next section was dedicated to costumes and the hair effects:
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| Bloody Baron Hair and face casts for facial hair |
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| Wigs and Hair |
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| Costumes |
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| Harry (with invisibility cloak), Ron and Hermione |
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| Order of the Phoenix - Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks and Sirius Black |
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| Deathly Hallows - Hermione, Harry and Ron |
The Marble Staircase
This set was designed for when filming was needed on a moving section of stairs. The green bars could be edited out against a green screen.
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| Marble Staircase |
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| Alana and the Marble Stairs |
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| Marble Stairs Info |
Gryffindor Boys' Dormitory
Next stop was the Gryffindor Boys' Dorm. The beds were never changed in size over the movie, so by the final ones the boys had to lie down and curl their legs - although the camera angles prevented this from being seen. The room was designed to be small and circular to 'make Harry feel more at home', and the curtains were about to be custom made when the set designer saw the perfect ones in a shop window.
Gryffindor Common Room
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| The Fat Lady picture and the mirror of Esired - Apparently you desire a queue of people looking at the set |
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| Common Room |
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| Common Room |
Clock Tower Clock
Next stop was the clock face from Hogwarts Clock Tower:
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| The Clock |
Dumbledore's Office
The next set was a big one - Dumbledore's Office.
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| The Gryphon that leads up to Dumbledore's Office |
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| The kids at the staircase |
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| Staircase Info |
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| Centre of Dumbledore's Office |
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| Dumbledore's Office Info 1 |
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| Dumbledore's Office Info 2 |
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| Dumbledore's Office |
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| Fawkes Fireplace Decoration |
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| Sword of Godric Gryffindor |
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| Dumbledore's Library - The books are British Phonebooks with fake covers |
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| More books and the Sorting Hat |
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| The fireplace has seals of all the houses - Hufflepuff |
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| Slytherin |
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| Ravenclaw |
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| Gryffindor |
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| Memory Cabinet - Filled with memories for the Pensieve |
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| The Pensieve |
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| Memory Cabinet |
Props
In the centre of this area was a big cage filled with different props from the movies:
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| Suit of Armour |
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| Props |
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| Triwizard Cup |
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| Triwizard cup and the golden egg |
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| Skele-Grow |
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| Tom Riddle's Diary |
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| Wand Display |
Leaky Cauldron
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| That crack might have something to do with it.. |
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| Alana at the Leaky Cauldron |
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| Info |
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| The Hallway |
Defence Against the Dark Arts
Potions Classroom
This set was cool. It took up
a big chunk of the area and had stacks of bottle and flasks:
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| Info 1 |
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| Info 2 |
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| Potions Classroom |
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| Potions |
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| More Potions |
Malfoy Manor
The Burrow
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| Clock Info |
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| Burrow Info |
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| The Burrow |
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| The Clock |
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| Clockface |
Still to come - Wand Combat, Privit Drive, Creatures and the awesome models
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