To
commemorate the last day of shooting of the Hobbit trilogy, director PeterJackson as posted on his Facebook page a diary of the last day with photos and
comments. See below.
P.S.
I took the out the Mr. Smudge entry.
"Ever
since starting these blogs, there’s been something I thought I’d like to try
one day (as well as answering the other 19 questions I owe you!) – blogging throughout
a shoot day in real time. Try to give you all a feeling for what we deal with
on an average day.
Today
is not exactly “average”, given it’s our last day of shooting, but if I don’t
do it today, I never will!
So
here goes … I’ll try to update as much as I can during the day. At least with a
quick photo. Text will depend a little on how busy it gets.
Right
now, it’s just gone 6.30am here in Wellington. I’m in bed, about to get up! I
didn’t get much sleep – too stressed about how we’re going to get through
everything we need to shoot. I kept running it over in my mind.
We’re
shooting scenes for Film 3 today. Stuff you will see in Dec 2014, so I’m going
to try and make this honest, but spoiler free.
I’ve
been lying here in pitch darkness, watching fight rehearsals over and over
again. Our stunt co-ordinatior, Glen Boswell, worked with the actors last
weekend, designing some climatic battle moments. He filmed them, and I have
them on my iPad, in an application we wrote called “WingNut TV”. It’s a program
that allows a huge amount of material to be catalog used and updated each day
over the Internet. It contains all our dailies, edited films, previs, music,
and much more. I’m looking at the fights, figuring out the angles I’ll need to
film them today. A huge amount to do, and it needs to get done.
Our
shoot day starts at 8.30am, and is supposed to finish at 7.30pm. I suspect
we’ll be working late. Whenever we work a long day, I joke with the crew that
I’m just softening them up for when Jim Cameron shows up in Wellington to shoot
Avatar 2 and 3. Well … It’s not really a joke.
I’ll
try and update often today."
"8.20am.
Not my favourite time of the day. When I drive to the studio, I usually feel
nervous, and the day seems daunting. 100 people are about to look to me to find
out what our first shot is, what lens I want to use, and how many set-ups it’s
going to take to get the scene finished. Some of the time I have a plan, and
some of the time I wing it. It helps to rehearse with the actors, and the ideas
(hopefully good ones) start flowing.
It’s
always better once we break the ice and start shooting."
"Setting
up our first shot.
9.15am.
Should be shooting soon. Two cameras, both with 16 mm lenses. Two huge wide
shots of a fight happening on an enormous set that filling most of K Stage.
This is going to be hard, posting pics without spoilers. I’ll do my best! We
have video diary cameras here, so you will eventually see what we’re doing
today in detail – but not until the Film 3 extended cut, which I guess will be towards
the end of 2015!
We
have a splinter unit also filming today, directed by Christian Rivers.
The
day has a messy start, because the first couple of hours are going to be spent
shooting stuff we were supposed to have finished yesterday. But because of the
sheer complexity of the choreography, we worked late, and still didn’t finish.
…
The
photo: yes, we did actually just film this. Please don’t ask me to explain!"
"10.30am.
Had to race to A Stage to try and explain to Graham and Christian why they were
shooting their Dwalin fight against green screen, and not our beautiful
expensive set as planned. Graham started sharpening his axe, so I just told
them to read my last Facebook posting and I fled.
We’ve
shot 3 shots on K Stage so far this morning. 2 more to go, and we’re shifting
to F Stage.
Hopefully
before the lunch break! Could be a long night …"
"Midday.
We’re shifting from K Stage to F Stage right now, and I took the chance to spot
music with Howard Shore. He’s in New York, and busy writing the score for Film
2.
“Spotting”
involves talking through edited scenes with Howard, and figuring out everything
he needs to do a first pass at the music composition – where music should start
and stop, what mood it should have, themes to use, moments to punctuate. That
type of thing. To stay on schedule, Howard needs 10 mins of cut footage every
week. This week we only have 3 & a half mins for him. Fortunately, he’s
very good natured about it. It’s happened once or twice before!
Next
week, when I’m back in the cutting room full time, Howard will be getting a
deluge!"
"Big
Richard, Medium Richard and Little Richard.
2.00pm.
Just breaking for lunch, with the first shot on F Stage complete. A daunting
number to go. I don’t want to think about it, but it’s probably 7 or 8 set-ups.
Splinter Unit have made the move to K Stage and will start shooting after
lunch.
I
asked the various Thorins to pose just before they headed off to lunch. One of
these is Richard Armitage, and two of them are not. It’s your guess … The one
in the middle is a little psycho."
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