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Exploring the Harry Potter Studio Tour

good morning and welcome to the Warner Brothers Harry Potter studio tour we're going to spend probably all day here today so we're going to take you around and show you what's in store so I think they've got some new Harry Potter things since I last came and I'm excited to check it out so let's go on in [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] so you get a digital guide but we don't need that because we have our own Harry Potter expert with us today wow [Music] we have a cafe they have lots of sweet treats a butterbeer cake a Sorting Hat cake chocolate frog Box norber egg cupcake and many more sweet treats the sorting house tart is called because it shows you what color house team you're in foreign just a little dragon [Music] and then through to the Food Hall over there thanks oh we're going this way to the tour entrance [Music] cupboard Under the Stairs [Music] about 400 pounds looks closing above your heads just like you did in the early production [Music] electrical wires and then you're supposed to practice so our production team they're very nice so we've got a lot of things to create this candles using CGI just like the stars about two stalls of your skin can I show you the Beatles next ingredient [Applause] that's actually a voice actor impersonating him which I think did a pretty good job Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix now we know that because he has some quiz tutorials or a pin give it to him and finally the house of Barbara Heroes [Music] right okay Gryffindor [Music] [Music] here we have the ubu foreign [Music] or at least I'm convinced it can't make be made out of chocolate and we're trying to prevent Lydia from seeing the table because she loves chocolate so a lot of the food on the table is actually painted resin some of the items were baked like Swiss Rolls and the chocolate Phoenix cake is actually made out of chocolate and it survived more than seven years in storage which is incredible so the chocolate Phoenix cake is made out of chocolate wow oh huge cauldron [Music] costume design there's no costume without a character [Music] Luna Lovegood [Music] wow Professor Umbridge that is a lot of signs going on a lot of rules over there I love the staircase [Music] [Music] what is this from if you know what it's from can you add a comment in the comments box below because we're not quite sure we don't know if it's from honeydukes or maybe it's from the Chamber of Secrets and they've just had color we don't know what do you think so we can either go left towards the boys dormitory or we can go right and we decided to go right towards the Leaky cauldron first a sleeky cauldron this hallway from The Wizard Pub and Ian was designed using a visual technique called Force perspective which makes it appear to be more than 50 feet long on screen okay I get it does look pretty long is it better I think the Cornish pictures are cute [Music] Gryffindor dormitory her windows are cool look the town says Gryffindor yeah all of the ones the Hermione Granger's outfit Harriet and Ron's from the Deathly Hallows part two correct yes 10 points for Gryffindor I know I can't I was thinking cool so you can collect passports and then get them stamped as you go around slytherins dormitory gryffindor's comrade foreign [Music] if you look above in the common room you can see Ron and Harris look at their little outfit they look so little [Music] thank you [Music] can you guess where we are now [Music] Richard Harris and Michael gamble I think you're right actually well they're both not like the same yeah so many portraits [Music] the Phoenix on the Shelf wow look at all those memories let me just put a memory in there any luck have you seen Tom Riddle Professor slalcorn Harry Potter foreign [Music] Riddle's outfit which way should we go next hogsmead or Hogwarts [Music] thank you [Music] Professor Snape's classroom [Music] [Applause] [Music] as well as collecting stamps in the Harry Potter passport there's a quiz throughout and you can also search for the golden snitches which are dotted around the studio I'm not going to show you where all of them are but this one is in Snape's classroom if you complete the passport then you can add a point to your chosen house team but like I said I won't show you where all of the marks that I want to spoil it for you for a Hagrid's Hut check out Bang they used to make two props of everything so one big one that Harry would hold and then one little version that Hagrid would hold and make him look bigger cool broomstick anyone I love the limbus 2000. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] magical trophies so unfortunately I wasn't able to film close up in this area but you get to ride your own broomstick and then you can purchase the video or photo at the end I've included the prices here for you for the photo and video foreign [Music] lots of portraits this is the Vault cart agreeance motorbike [Music] [Music] how big are these doors these are Hogwarts doors crazy now obviously this is from the Chamber of Secrets Primus lupine's trunk [Music] a Whomping wheelie poor Miss Louise's car mad I need his truck [Music] this is definitely one of my favorite rooms [Music] [Music] a Voldemort's outfit and Snape's outfit and the huge table and a scary snake from Deathly Hallows part one [Music] from the Order of the Phoenix foreign costumes [Music] is that Tom Riddle's grave mystery of magic fireplace [Music] where should we go let's jump in the fireplace prophecy orbs Hagrid's umbrella and his outfits wow [Music] it is really let's face that is multiple field here waiting to buy at the train station again Martin Rayfield however if this is a close-up of what we call training and France has done a tour now brought us to the tour played people of giant as well Matt and Maxine she also had a size double bonding I didn't know they had basketball in my own style but they do not use it for this shot instead they've used a wooden disc where hearts and it all stood on the outside of the disc and what we call train still the center at the floor level various different ways of making them look like giants were used throughout the film series you made your experiences at the beach regular's table over there one is about 18 smaller than the others we've got an 82 scale and a 100 scale the same with hybrid's Huts which you may see around the corner the large version that we have here would be how you build the smaller version that was used by Robbie Coltrane was set on fire and so you don't have that anymore it was never enough by Prince as you may remember when he came to the third film director of photo crime wanted to get the milk and then they're created with this category costume for Martin Mayfield So they added Youth and servers to the head to allow it to have a range of motion it even supported voice activation so whenever Martin Mayfield would stay Robbie Coltrane climbed the head would move as well [Music] as well as you can imagine it got very very hot so they even fitted tubes with a very cold water through the seats so an outmarked in Mayfield to be slightly more comfortable however he said that quite often he did not turn the system on because it just made him more uncomfortable and they would have to take off the suit as well and put it all back together and you just thought he'd suffered for it the difference between a special effect and a visual effect because you're going to hear a lot about those terms today so a visual effect is something that is added in post-production such as a giant dragon that has to chase Harry through Hogwarts however a special effect is something we actually do on set and the great thing about that is that it gives your actors something to react to so this iconic scene was actually filmed in a place called Harrow school which is very very close to here and it was filmed in its full form room and in that very same room are carvings from ex students such as Winston Churchill but back to this from Winston Churchill to our very own charms Professor Professor Flitwick getting ready to teach Harry Sheamus Ron and Hermione a new spouse now this one is going to involve a little bit of your help because I'm not a brilliant wizard so the one movement is a swish in the flick but can anyone remember the name of the spell just shout it out any of you can remember it is indeed thank you very much action Guardian Leviosa your magic is amazing but this is the making of Harry Potter so I'm going to now tell you how we actually did it so if you look behind me you will see a fishing rod but what you will not see is a very small piece of tanstemia attached from the top to the feather now the wire is so thin and so small I can't see it from here so that means the camera can't see it either so it makes it look like the Faber levitates in the air which is really really awesome on set are special effects supervisor John Richardson actually held the fishing rod just so he could match Emma Watson's one movement all those mud floods this was hand sculptured by Jillian Murray [Music] I'm not sure I'm brave enough to venture into the Forbidden Forest I'll follow you it's Lord Voldemort no foreign [Music] me [Music] spiders spiders if they're already sorry for the poor deerhound who had to wear this led lip vest so they could create the glowing Patronus anyway this has been Forest cool so when you leave the Forbidden Forest you have the option to continue on the tour or make a little shop little shop a little shop in the shop there is a shop at the end as well so we just have a little shop in the shop and if you're enjoyed this video so far do all those lovely things like And subscribe got a butterbeer section over here butterbeer bags I think that's like little folders oh cool Christmas ornaments [Music] foreign they've opened up a Warner Brothers Studio tour in Japan as well and it's meant to be really big and they've opened it up this year and so they've got official merchandise too which is this here so that's what they've created this merchandise for that's why it's got this like anime look to it oh cool it's actually for the studio tour in Tokyo [Music] it's awesome it looks really cool yeah I didn't know that [Music] oh [Music] so this is exclusive collection not available in the main gift shop so if you do want this range then stop in the shop in the middle of the tour [Music] [Music] cool how much is it 25. foreign [Music] for the butter beer key ring how much is the decoration 13 pound with the decoration it's a pound [Music] what's your favorite part of the Harry Potter studio tour add a comment below feels like a good place to wrap up part one here check out part two hit that like button and subscribe liking and subscribing really helps me out part two or check out the Hogwarts Express along with scene sets animatronics models large scenes and of course the Hogwarts Castle and everything in between so definitely check out part two thank you for watching bye