Dream scenes and editing

The mysterious immortal Elves of Middle Earth make an appearence in The Hunt For Gollum. Last week we explored these mysterious immortals through a dream sequence which was shot in a wonderfully Elvish location: Hampstead Heath Pergola in London.



Currently the production will be completed for an end of the year release online. We've got a lot of editing now to be done (30+ hours of footage to cut into the 30 minute film). Also we're looking for visual effects and sound artists to join the Hunt For Gollum team. Get in touch by email... chris@hunt4gollum.com

And so, onwards we continue THE HUNT!!!

Orc shoot completed!

2 weeks ago we completed the most ambitious shoot of the film. It was an intense 4 day shoot where featuring a large band of Orcs and some choreographed fights. Epping Forest was our location and our crew of 48 people camped out for 4 days at Debden House Campsite. Was a great shoot enjoyed by all, and an impressive acheivement for a low budget film.

There will be some proper updates appearing about this on our website, but in the meantime here's a few stills from this shoot.



We're working on some short teaser clips, to put online soon.

Costumes... in progress

... 2 weeks before the shoot Marta, Natalie and Sophie lay out the orc costumes made so far. Now final adjustments, refinements and extra costumes will be thrown together to complete the Orc army.





The costumes laid out on the rooftop...








The director can't resist taking a turn...

Making Helmets...

Here's a first look at the orc helmets made today our creative Hunt for Gollum props team Lisa, Jim and Lisa! They'll be outfitting the Orcs for the shoot in 2 weeks today....

pics, art and stuff

Dear H4G readers... here's a few new images, storyboards and posters, as we build up to the biggest shoot of the film...

Launch of www.hunt4gollum.com our new website

... has just been launched. Drop by and have a look around, there's a lot more info and imagery from the film on www.hunt4gollum.com


www.hunt4gollum.com

We've also completed a shoot last Sunday, in 2 forest locations around London. It was a very successful shoot which brings us up to 25% of the film shot.



The shoot made good progress with a very strong team coming together for this scene with 2 Rangers.



Next we're building up our art department creating the costumes and props for the main batch of principal photography in April and May.

Latest News:

With weekend Costume design sessions and lots of new faces on the team, The Hunt For Gollum is well and truly underway. Our strong team of 5 co-producers have been working really hard putting togther the different departments on the film from locations to art department, prosthetics & costumes. And our first shoot of the year is coming up next Sunday. This will be a forest based Ranger scene.

A shot of next week's location:


Soon to come:
info on costume design, fight team training and our brand new website will be launched next week.