Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

To paraphrase Hanxia, ​​this person is incredibly pretentious.

He loves anything that puts him in the spotlight and is always at the forefront of showing off.

After all, the most prominent feature of this character is that he is handsome.

To highlight his handsomeness, the plot also incorporates many elements of this.

For example, he was admired by many female classmates, especially Hermione, but Ron, Harry, and even other Gryffindor classmates did not understand and were disgusted by this admiration.

His office was filled with his own photos and piled high with letters from readers.

For Lockhart, the busiest thing was replying to letters.

He was arrogant but lacked real talent, which led to many embarrassing situations.

For example, when Harry broke his wrist in a Quidditch match, he helped heal the injury, but ended up making the bone disappear.

Then, during his class, he started researching Pokémon, causing chaos in the classroom, and ended up fleeing in a sorry state.

At the dueling club he founded, Harry was attacked by a snake. He came to Harry's rescue, but to no avail, leading to Harry being misunderstood.

When the "locked room" incident escalated, the teachers asked him to resolve it, but he tried to escape.

Even Hagrid, who never spoke ill of his teachers, retorted angrily, "He thinks I don't know how to get rid of water sprites and goblins, and he boasts about how he banished female ghosts. If any of that is true, I'll eat the teapot." This criticism of Lockhart, a Hogwarts professor, was completely unlike Hagrid's usual self.

It's clear that Lockhart, as the only candidate to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, is quite something to be hated by Hagrid, who has almost no magical abilities and never criticizes any professor.

Before Harry, Harry, and his friends arrived at Hagrid's hut, Lockhart had just visited Hagrid, intending to teach him something. However, this visit made Hagrid very unhappy because he didn't recognize them as the ones who had previously angrily assumed Lockhart had returned.

Hagrid's rumors about Harry and Lockhart exchanging autographed photos could infuriate Harry.

This character has an appallingly large number of costumes that appear in his outfits.

Almost every scene required a new costume.

Moreover, it has to be very gorgeous clothing to fit the character's persona.

Therefore, the issue of these costumes is not easy to resolve. After all, these medieval-style costumes are expensive to produce, especially in such a large quantity.

Each piece had to be made by hand, one by one.

To resolve this issue, Xia Yuan personally spent a long time searching and found a group of top designers to help him design these clothes.

Then they found some craftsmen to rush the production.

The costume cost for Lockhart alone reached millions of dollars.

Of course, this wasn't the first time Xia Yuan had gone through so much trouble for a character's costume.

The last time was when we were preparing Gao Qiqiang's costumes, makeup, and props.

This is the only character in a long time whose attention to detail and frequency of changing clothes can be compared to Gao Qiqiang's.

The actor who plays this role is also a well-known Hollywood actor, famous for his good looks.

Xia Yuan's intention was indeed to make the character live up to his name and create a handsome and charismatic figure.

Otherwise, if the character itself doesn't exude charm and doesn't fit the persona, how can the audience understand what kind of character he wants to portray?

You can't just cast an actor who's not good-looking and then insist that he's handsome, can you?

In earlier years, audiences would have bought into it.

Audiences are no longer buying into this kind of behavior.

To put it simply, if we take a classic ancient Chinese text as an example, by today's standards, the heroine in the story of Mulan shouldn't be a celestial beauty.

It should be someone with the style of Dong Baiyu.

This is what should mean: how can one tell if I am male or female?

Then, after Lockhart's matter was resolved, many new problems arose.

For example, the character Dobby.

Should we use AI or pure special effects?

We'll still use actors for motion capture.

This became a problem.

With today's advanced technology, how to present it is not a problem, and presenting the character well is also not a problem.

The question is, what kind of aversion should be used?

Then, after discussions between Xia Yuan and He Ye's visual effects supervisor and their team, a decision was made.

Led by the special effects team, using AI technology in conjunction with traditional special effects production, they were responsible for creating 950 special effects scenes.

Xia Yuan still hopes to rely entirely on CGI technology to create the family elf Dobby in the film.

Immediately afterwards, the crew dismantled the soundstage for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," since most of the scenes at the castle were still set up on a 250-foot-long, 120-foot-wide backdrop.

However, while the Chamber of Secrets set may not be the most elaborately produced, it is definitely the largest Harry Potter set in the entire series.

Therefore, it was not big enough and had to be demolished and rebuilt.

Then the interior of the castle also needs to be renovated.

Xia Yuan then decided to convert the entire film studio into an aircraft manufacturing plant. In addition to filming at the castle, he would directly buy an aircraft manufacturing plant for this film.

The entire filming studio will cover a terrifying area of ​​several hundred feet.

然后由300名建筑工人、25名布景师和绘图师、4名置景师、4名雕刻师、2名美工师、5名肖像师、20名道具师和诸多专家组成，共同建造。

In addition, there are stunt drivers and others who are responsible for designing stunts for flying cars.

They even prepared more than a dozen wires.

It's fair to say that 1.8 billion yuan was invested in the film before it even started shooting.

It's fair to say that the production costs of each subsequent Harry Potter film were higher than the last.

After all, each film has a larger scale than the last.

This wasn't even up to the point where they filmed "The Goblet of Fire," when Voldemort first appeared.

Otherwise, with even larger events, the costs would be even higher.

Moreover, the portrayal of the Noseless Monster is also a problem, unlike Lockhart and Dobby, who are much more reliable.

Finally, after much preparation, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is about to enter the filming stage.

In the newly built castle, most of the green screens have been removed, and it is now a true real-scene filming location.

The only remaining green screens are in places that cannot be reproduced in reality, such as the starry sky ceiling and picture frames.

The production team even built a spiral staircase.

It adopts a fully automatic and remote control method.

The first scene is currently being filmed.

"Three, two, one, action!"

Snapped!
After the script supervisor slammed the clapperboard, the young actors sitting at the four long tables finally began to use their knives and forks to enjoy the dazzling array of dishes on the table.

The dishes used in the filming were all real; there were no props involved.

The main camera focus remained on the three boys, whom we hadn't seen for several months. (End of Chapter)