Almost a wrap

It's November now and we're now as good as wrapped. Over a year in the filming, it's sad to think I won't be spending so much time camping out in forests with a bunch of orcs and our amazing crew!

Spencer, Adrian and myself after wrapping the marathon last shoot.

The final few shoots were intense, the very last one included a fight scene at night, which we filmed until 3am before grabbing a couple of hours sleep and embarking on a full day of shooting the next day.


An elf scout makes an appearance on the night shoot

Anyway it's all in the can, Adrian's wrapped and Lewis is editing the latest scenes into place. After staring at a rough cut without a beginning or end, I'll soon be able to see how the movie is flowing as a whole.

A snap rescued from our first shoot in Wales over a year ago

Just as Born of Hope hit the Chicago Tribune and Daily Telegraph, we had a nice bit of press with an interview I did for SFX magazine link.


Orc desktop by Julie Mink

Special effects work & concepts

I'd like to release a couple of images from the vfx/art side of the film. These by concept and visual effects artist Jean-David Solon.

Concept image: Strider passes through the ruins of ancient Arnor on his quest...

It's exciting for us to add new depth to the realism of the film through special effects. The quality of work created by the TH4G artists breathes life and spectacular realism into our vision of middle earth.
More concept work by TH4G artist JD Solon


The next shoot dates will be in August and September...

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.

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.

Movie Stills - first look

Here's our first batch of imagery taken directly from the footage. These are all real locations in Snowdonia, N Wales.


The production is ready to go into the second phase. We're planning to shoot the remainging scenes in the new year. Currently storyboarding and location hunting.

We're currently looking for talented people to join the team. Particularly looking for costume designers, and production people.

We aim to make this a professional quality, cinematic production and to release online for free download. This project is in no way affiliated with New Line Cinema, Peter Jackson or Tolkien but we thank them. Feel free to get in touch on chrisbouchard1*@*gmail.com