Our next adventure was a trip to the Warner Bros studios where they filmed the Harry Potter movies. We were going to take a certain bus there, and it left at 11:45 AM, and when we got there, it was 10:30 AM. We went to a nearby store, and we got some things like some muffins, some grapes, and smoothies since the bus ride to Warner Bros studios was 1 and a half hours long. My Mom got something at Pret a Manger, which has things like soup and sandwiches. I was able to split a footling from subway with my brother. We got on the bus at 11:45 AM, and we had an hour and a half trip ahead of us.
Once we got to the Warner Bros studios, we got off of the bus, and we saw some of the real chess pieces from Harry Potter and the Scorers Stone. Me and Levi got pictures in front of them. They looked really real!
We walked inside, and we had to wait in a long line, but in that line were some cool quotes from JK Rowling, and the cupboard under the stairs where Harry slept when he was at the Dursleys house in the summer.
We all went inside this room, and there were cool images showing of how Harry Potter got advertised all around the world. Here is one of them. It looks really cool!
Once we walked through the doors, we all sat down in a theater and watched Harry, Hermione, and Ron introduce us to the Warner Bros studios. We got to enter the set of The Great Hall, and it was amazing!
We got to see some of the clothes the characters wore in the movies. We went inside and we got to see a ton of things. I was very interested in how they made the Quidich scenes in the movies. They used green screens and had to find out how to move the camera so it looked like they were really playing. They also had animated players of each of the Quidich players, so they could do more intense things than just fly around. It was very interesting!
We also got to see the Goblet of Fire Stand, Dumbledores office, the hidden starcase covered up by a winged beast. We also got to see the door they used to get into the scorers stone vault in movie one, and also the door to get into the Chamber of Secrets. I love the door with the 7 head snakes. I looked on the side, and they had a switch for each snake head, because in the movie, each head goes back a little, then the one long snake goes around the whole door then it opens, and they actually made the door do that. That is so cool!
We also got to see a huge cauldron, the wall with all of the picture frames on it that Dolores Umbridge hung up and everybody had to follow. We also saw one of the moving star cases, the Gryffindor room where Ron and Harry slept at night. We also got to see Professor Snapes classroom when he was teaching potions.
It was very awesome to go there, I loved the parts where they explained how they filmed a certain scene with green screen, because then you know how its made. Outside, we also got to see the Night Bus, and the shop that Fred and George Weasly opened up to sell magic candy and other things like love potions.
The last amazing thing that we saw, was the huge Hogwarts Castle sculpture that was made to get over the tower shots. They used this when they wanted to get like opening shots of the castle, they used this and put green screen behind it and thats how they made things like when Harry was running from the Dragon, and they fought on the roof of Hogwarts.
It looks exactly like the real castle, but they made it down-scaled. We also got to get a picture in front of the Hogwarts Express that they used in the movie, and a picture with tiny Harry Potter and tiny Ron Weasley.
After our amazing adventure, we took an Uber to the Airport and flew home on RyanAir. I got home and went to school Monday, but today is Tuesday, and I did not go to school because I was really sick today. I woke up and felt horrible, hopefully I can go to school tomorrow, but it is a half day so its not really important. It was a good London trip, and I am currently working on a 'Career in Detail' project for my next Transition Year Project. I hope I can do this project as well as I did 'The Story of Me' I loved making that project. I will take pictures of my Project tomorrow.
-January 31, 2017 (Calebs Birthday) AND TUESDAY
Jackson! Do you have any idea how jealous Jalen is? How fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat great pictures and narration, Jackson! You are good! I can tell you both loved it!
ReplyDeleteWe (aunt Jen, Jalen, Nayda, Brad and I) met your dad for lunch on Sat. in GR!
Some of us continued to DeVos Hall to see the GR Symphony play the score
for the first Harry Potter Movie which played on the big screen behind them. I loved it!