The Making of Harry Potter: Props, SFX & Sets

The Making of Harry Potter is a wonderful to visit as it is preserving all the wonderful magic of the films. Our Media class went on a school trip to spend the day at this wonderful experience to let us explore and be aware of the process of what it was like producing the world's most successful franchise.

We saw al the complexities behind making a live action block buster and I was able to look in more detail the Props, SFX and Sets of the Harry Potter franchise.

Properties

Props, shortened from Properties are all the physical objects any of the actors interact with. From phones, books, glasses or bags.

In Harry Potter, obvious examples would be their wands, Herminie's time turner, or even Harry's glasses.

SFX

 Special effects are very important in films in today’s day and age. Almost every major film title has a significant amount of CGI effects. In Harry Potter the complex sequence of quidditch could only be recreated with visual effects.

During our visit to ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ we saw how they created the effect, by shooting live action infront of a green screen before adding in the digital background.

Sets

In the Harry Potter franchise Warner Bros Studio took went to extraordinary lengths to add in extreme levels of detail by hand to increase the actor's sense of immersion in the world.

Eg: Ever wands in Alavandar's shop had a name and label on them.