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Harry Potter Film Wizardry

By: May Chen
October 28, 2010

Hello, Muggles!  Are you like me and starting to feel Harry Potter withdrawal symptoms?  Has it been awhile since your last visit to the Harry Potter theme park?  Are you just counting the days, nay, the minutes, until Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows, Part 1, arrive in theaters November 19th? 

Well, I have just the thing to tide you over, check out Harry Potter Film Wizardry—the first book to give fans a behind-the-scenes look into the enormously successful movies.  Find out why Dementors move the way they do, what the inspiration was behind Hogwarts Castle and how to get a hippogriff to work with the actors.  PLUS, there are tons of interactive, removable extras: Harry Potter’s admission letter from Hogwarts, your very own Marauder’s Map and more.  This is the perfect gift for wizards, witches and muggles alike!

 Check out this delightful book trailer from Warner Bros:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw76LnI7PEw

 And some sneak peeks from this gorgeously produced book.

P.S. I’m such a big fan of the Harry Potter world that I named my French Bulldog after Luna Lovegood, and in a few weeks I’ll be visiting the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland where J.K. Rowling completed the Deathly Hollows.  Any other superfans out there?

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  • Peeping Jon says: November 17, 2010 at 10:49 am

    Back in 2007 when I wrote a review for a Harry Potter poster book, I bemoaned the lack of companion books for the Harry Potter films and wished that somebody would work on a serious “the-making-of ” type of book for the HP movie series. So when I saw “Harry Potter Film Wizardry” on my Amazon’s recommended future releases list last month, I went, “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!” and now that I have the book in my hands, I say, “Finally!” This is the book that the Harry Potter films deserve and the one movie lovers have waited for.

    “Harry Potter Film Wizardry” covers the first six films and the first part of the Deathly Hallows. The behind-the scenes information and material contained in the book is probably a fraction of what seven films would generate, but Brian Sibley and the cast and crew managed to pick the most representative items from and the most memorable moments of each movie and filled the pages with photographs, sketches, storyboards, concept art and scenes from the films. This book is not only a delight to look at but also to touch. There is the letter addressed to “H. Potter, The Cupboard under the Stairs” to pull out from its envelope; Honeydukes candy boxes to punch out and assemble; the Yule Ball and the Quidditch World Cup programmes to admire, Proclamations to decorate your walls; the detailed Marauder’s Map is ready for you to unfold, and there are a Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes product catalogue and the much more sinister Borgin and Burkes catalogue to pore over. These are, of course, clever and fun ways to present some of the props and ephemera created for the movies.

    “Harry Potter Film Wizardry” will keep any fan of the HP films happily reading (and admiring the pictures) for hours. It belongs on the shelf of anybody who enjoys the magic of the movies. As for me, this book is a wish come true.


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