I have recently just watched on Sunday the movie “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and decided to watch the behind the scenes on how it was produced. I found that it was so amazing what they go through in just a day of shooting. The director explained it a little but he really show that he lives through the film he makes like that he is the characters themselves. He wants to feel how they do and see their perspective. In developing the script of the movie, just like Harry Potter movies, they tried to base most of the movie from J.K. Rowling’s book and create that perspective through the world and to be able to “understand what is at stake in these climatic scenes.”  The actors themselves really tried to evolve their characters themselves and really tried to live through their role. With this movie the actors really have to follow specific movements in their scene with most of the movie being CGI. They have to anticipate the movements with the wands and the effects and the certain animals especially in the film. All were CGI so the actor of Newt really had to go through 8 scenes with some sort of interaction with these CGI animals. The director himself talks of the movie being like “a cold war thriller” and that the movie has this depth to it with this complex movie plot.

I feel the movie’s work with the perception of the world works because even though a lot of the movie is CGI, the actors work incredibly well with anticipating their movements. The preparation of some of the scenes are quite interesting. Some of the shots of Hogwarts was shot at Lake Hawkware at a smaller estate but really captures the environment of the world at this totally different little place.

In the scene where Grindelwald gives his speech, the lighting was so precise for grindelwald matching his skin perplexion and hair. With the light itself being so godly it really changed the scene. They also had many cameras set up around the arena but also shot the scene over more than 4 times. I think that this scene is my favorite with the design of the scene itself and having that many people organized in that space. I also really enjoyed the CGI effect of the fire and the people disappearing as they walked through. I also loved that the camera angles of the fight in the arena was a camera on a crane being moved with robotic action.  I also loved seeing the behind the scenes of one of the actresses in the rain because one that they had to wait for a rainy day and two the camera operator was literally covered in a huge plastic raincoat. Overall I feel looking at the behind the scenes of this film was amazing and seeing that they had to sync the effects and plan the movements before hand was very interesting to me.