A well-known Wanaka author’s book on the movie “Narnia – the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” will be launched in Auckland tonight. The title of the book is Cameras in Narnia: How The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Came to Life. It was written by Ian Brodie.
The man who guided thousands of movie fans to Lord of the Rings film locations now aims to guide fans into movie-making. Ian Brodie, the man who wrote the Lord of the Rings Locations Guidebook is today releasing Cameras In Narnia, a chronicle of how a huge team headed by New Zealand-born director Andrew Adamson made The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. But anyone expecting a guidebook to locations used for the latest fantasy epic filmed in New Zealand will be disappointed. Instead, Brodie’s book sets about uncovering how hundreds of people with talents in disparate areas like make-up, construction, costume design, camera operation and computer effects go about creating a big budget movie.
An essential guide to the filming in New Zealand of one of the most hotly anticipated movies of all time. The first of the CS Lewis Chronicles of Narnia to be made into a movie is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and has been filmed and produced in New Zealand by Disney and Walden Media, with Kiwi director Andrew Adamson. Ian Brodie has been on set and on location throughout its production, and has documented the making of the film from behind the cameras, with interviews with the director and key crew members. Using this movie as a specific example, he explains in layman’s terms the magical process of turning a much-loved classic of children’s literature into a blockbuster movie. Through the latest Computer Generated Imaging techniques, the fabulous creatures of Narnia will astound viewers and this book explains how Aslan and Mr Tumnus were created, and why the centaurs look so real. Dolly grips, gaffers, clapperloaders and best boys are explained, and the process of making a movie documented with over 200 full-colour movie and behind-the-camera images, nearly all of them exclusive to this book.
This will be a valuable teaching tool and a superb record of a much-loved movie, with anecdotes and information to delight in equal measure.
