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It was an interesting journey the filmmaker and Hobbit actor\"THE<\/a> Jed Brophy took us on in one hour, we where guided along the stages and rooms of Park Road Post in Miramar, Wellington, to where we finally ended up in Peter Jackson’s’ home away from home the editing room in his traditional bare feet.<\/p>\n

Jed was a great host along side Peter Jackson who explained certain things on the way to the editing room, we saw snippets of work in progress, Azog and an Orc in motion capture, some Pre-Viz of Smaug the Dragon, of whom we only saw snippets of in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which is akin to the unfinished Gollum in his first but brief appearance in Fellowship of The Ring, before he was fully realized as a digital character in the Two Towers, he was a mere shadow of himself you could say..<\/p>\n

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Peter Jackson must have been walking around in bare feet all the way because I didn’t see him taking off his shoes on the way to the editing room..<\/p>\n

Once there they made themselves comfortable, and they showed us one scene of Bilbo with the dwarves \u00a0and Bard the Bowman in a boat, who is transporting them across to Laketown\u00a0just\u00a0after picking them up in the barrels from the river, Peter explained about all the various camera angles which he used for that scene and how he could choose one from them for the final edit.<\/p>\n

Then we were greeted and introduced to some new and old new actors, who will appear in the second movie the Desolation of Smaug, via a pre-recorded video, and then caught glimpse’s of them in character and in action on set.<\/p>\n

A few fans were lucky enough to have their questions answered too, and we were presented with video or artwork of the new locations as answers, and a very tasty teaser of things to come, Very Cool!<\/p>\n

So much was said in that one hour, and with only a one off chance (before the modified version landed on the net) of trying to take it all in, I took it upon myself to transcribe what I heard, this took away the flutter of videos and pictures, and let me hear what was being said and there were quite a few interesting things as you can read below:<\/p>\n

Transcript<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Jed: <\/strong>Thank you for joining us here at Park Road Post. I\u2019m Jed Brophy I play ‘Nori’ in the hobbit, films,\u00a0 this morning you get to see behind the scenes, how we make these movies and where we make them and later on you get to ask Sir Peter Jackson some questions live, and speaking of which, its Peter Jackson himself, Morning Peter.<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Jed how are you?
\nJed:<\/strong> Very good nice to see
\nPJ: <\/strong>Great thank you, and here are all our folk tuning in, thank very much for making the time in your day or your night, speaking of which, for most of you in the America’s or Europe its Sunday March the 24th, not only is this live there actually a time travel element to this because of you look at today\u2019s paper, down here in New Zealand its the 25th of march, Monday its 8:00 o\u2019clock in the morning on Monday so your actually going ahead into time not just live, and I\u2019ll tell you what look out your windows 7:00 o\u2019clock Monday morning it\u2019s amazing, spoiler alert but its incredible<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> bizarre there\u2019s more of you cricket English cricket fans<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Because England and New Zealand are playing a very intense game of cricket at the moment and just for the fans in England we thought you might like to look at the back of paper, yesterdays paper,\u00a0 never mind, never mind lets ah move on<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> What are we going to look at today?<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Well, we are going to end up in the cutting room, most of this is going to take place in the cutting room, but before we get there I just wanted to give everyone a tour, around our building for those of you how\u2019ve watched our blogs Stone Street Studios where the filming is done about hundred yards down the road, and so this is our post production place, were we find ourselves for months and months after the film is finished, and this is the motion caption stage, performance capture stage, and Christian is doing in the middle of doing a bit of motion capture for the second Hobbit movie<\/p>\n

Christian:.. Where doing the part where Azgo’s um and the Orcs…<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> All right spoiler alert, spoiler alert, let\u2019s just stick to the look this is Azog you\u00a0 see Azog, one of our chief Orc’s he’s actually friendly when he\u2019s in a motion capture suit, more friendly then he is in the movie<\/p>\n

*cut* to movie posters<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Seven or Eight years old<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Fantastic<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Good movie<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> oh what have we got here?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Well this is a poster collection (six sheets) it\u2019s a size. of a poster they don\u2019t make any more, I\u2019ve spent a few years trying to collect every James bond six sheet \/ 3 sheet, so this is just like the James Bond walk of fame<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Wow<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Its good<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Which is your favorite?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Well this is the first bond movie I saw live and let die, but you know the posters, in the old days where just fantastic<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> They used to paint movie posters, which<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Alright<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Never happens anymore unfortunately<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> That\u2019s a great poster isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah it is,<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> You Never Live Twice<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> The detail in it is amazing<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> We should walk down this corridor and makes you feel good<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah, Yeah, you\u2019ve got room for the ones coming up<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah, we got room for all of them, yep, yep<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Now were are heading into the Pre-Viz department<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> That stands for per-visualization<\/p>\n

*walks through doors*<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Which is like story boards, except we really don\u2019t do story boards any more we do these, like, like, animated you know animated…some sequences, which we work on for quite a few months, before we give them to Weta Digital for the final shots, and we have quite a lot of people working for this department its a big team<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Hey guys<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> How\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah so we got a little bit of spider work happening over here, Ah Christian<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Ah, Christian<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Christian is here, yep, so Christian has been working on um, designs for Smaug ,the dragon<\/p>\n

Christian: ….<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Let\u2019s just have a little quick peek these are all friends, you\u2019re not going to put this on the internet are you? let\u2019s just have a quick look<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Looks like he\u2019s coming along well Christian<\/p>\n

Christian: Yeah I kind of ah….we came up with this ourselves<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah that\u2019s fantastic, no your doing so good, its original, great okay, keep up the good work<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> I don\u2019t find it very scary<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> (whispers something I can\u2019t hear to the camera), let\u2019s keep going<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Hey<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Hey guys<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So what we got? this is another Smaug is it?<\/p>\n

Weta Motion capture guy: Ah some motion studies yeah, some ideas, what do you think<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah it looks a lot like kind a T-Rex with wings<\/p>\n

Weta Motion capture guy: So close?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Well close no not close don\u2019t think you close, But I think your wings should be bigger anyway, if a T-Rex is ever going to take off its going to need much bigger wings than that<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We got a wee way to go<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Shall we carry on<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> So these are some of the artworks from the Pre-Vis?<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>When you\u2019re doing Pre-Vis you got to actually build a model of the set so you know, can actually portray the scenes, this is uh a set that we built for uh, it\u2019s the Rivendell library, that we never used in the movies at the end of the day it was a sequence we never shot we cut that from the script before it ever got shot but we did do some early Pre-Vis on it<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>So we are officially entering the editing department now, and the first room is the room with all the brave editing team, the editing of this movie wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t for all these people at the height of all there professional powers<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> The claim all this room the bunker\u00a0 don\u2019t they? The bunker<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> The bunker yep<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Bunker<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> How\u2019s it going guys alright?<\/p>\n

Editing staff: Yeah<\/p>\n

*spoiler on a monitor *<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, lets don\u2019t put ah oh dear oh dear<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> The elves are always watching, always<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So now let\u2019s head down the corridor, and then we will make ourselves comfortable, alright<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> That\u2019s my favorite, Gold finger, everything he touch\u2019s turns into excitement, just like my carrier<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Hah, alright through here Jed<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Here we are this is the editing room<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Wow<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yep, its, its ah always a bit strange because, you know when we are shooting a movie, where dealing with two to three hundred people on set and, and while there\u2019s a lot of people working on the film in post-production, Weta Digital and the sound, once I\u2019ve done with shooting the film, I suddenly me and Jabez this is Jabez Olssen<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Good to see ya<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Its ah just me and Jabez in this room alone, so it\u2019s a bit of a culture shock you know to suddenly<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Big TV<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Big TV, yeah, yeah<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> How big is that?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Um, I think it\u2019s about one hundred and three inches<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Wow<\/p>\n

PJ: Yeah, no I know it\u2019s good I, there is a reason why the TV is so big it\u2019s not just\u00a0 kind of an indulgence, because its, in the old days we used edit\u00a0 movies on a little screen… and it was strange because you spend months editing a movie on a on a screen this size, and then when you finally projected it the cinema, which you do once you done you always had to go back to change the cut, because the difference in the rhythms and pacing between the small screen and the big screen, was, was strange was unexpected and so having the biggest screen as possible like literally, the biggest screen we could find to cut on is actually giving use the best sense we can, what it\u2019s going to be like in the cinema<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Right, so this is more like the end result<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah its so much better than cutting on a monitor screen size screen, um its good… I\u2019ve got my poster this was on my bedroom wall when I was a kid<\/p>\n

*One Million Years B.C* Poster<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Really this actual poster?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Have, have you got a copy of the movie?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> I did, yeah it\u2019s a okay, but it wasn’t really about the movie the dinosaurs where cool and Raquel Welch was cool for a teenage boy it is a very good poster on the wall<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Indeed<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>So yes anyway, so we want to just um, before we get started we got questions, um that we are looking forward to answering and a, few bits and pieces, few surprise guests coming on but um, I thought I\u2019d give everyone a little sense of what we do in the cutting room, because you know, when people are editing the movie it\u2019s a little bit mysterious and um, I thought it would be fun for you know Jabez and I to just walk you through this you\u00a0 where in the scene (Jed), we shot this about a year ago?<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We did, yeah April last year<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>And um.. it\u2019s a scene its very, just like a little piece of the scene were Bard is taking the dwarves across the lake, towards Laketown it\u2019s the first time they have been to lake town are with Bard, he’s collected these barrels from the river, those of you that have read the hobbit kinda know where abouts\u00a0 in the story we are, for those who haven\u2019t look forward too it in December but um, I just wanted to give you a sense of how we kind of put these scenes together, it\u2019s pretty much what we do every day, for months and months and months it takes months … takes months to do that<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> We tend to shoot quite a fair bit of footage Jed, which is great<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah…we do year, I enjoyed it, that part<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>So um, as a director where shooting I\u2019ve got to try to figure out\u00a0 what camera angles your shoo ing, so you , you know generally you shoot a master a wide shoot, and we can have a look at example of a master\u00a0 and will go wide for this particular scene, and then you,you, once , sometimes i don\u2019t have a plan at all I shoot the master, then I\u2019ll walk around and decide on what coverage, it\u2019s called converge, which is basically the close up shots, the tighter shots that we would do once we done the wide, so this is uh, our wide shoot of the scene, the boats travelling, its\u00a0 moving, its static where, where we shot because\u00a0 it was easier to do that way but in the movie it’ll look its travelling across the lake hence all the green screen around it, so these are unfinished shots<\/p>\n

Jabez: yep<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> But this will give you a sense of the process, so Jabez and I kinda go through<\/p>\n

Bilbo: \u201cI should never have left Bag End that was our first mistake .”, \u201cyou know we have a saying the shire, we learn it from birth never venture east”,\u00a0 woman\u2019s voice: \u201cso tell me master hobbit why did you venture”<\/p>\n

Bilbo: “I should never have left Bag End that was our first mistake,\u00a0 “You know we have a saying the shire, we learn it from birth never venture east”\u00a0 woman\u2019s voice: \u201cso tell me master hobbit why did you venture..”<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So that was a couple of takes, and, and, how long,<\/p>\n

Jabez: We got more than that<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> And um yeah, the interesting thing about Martin in particular since this is the line of Martins is that I always love the way he does a completely different performance each take<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> He does always take you by surprise quite a lot<\/p>\n

PJ: Yeah, you get the idea that you know, he\u2019s experimenting with how he can push and shove and work the lines around, just you know it\u2019s always interesting, interesting to watch, so this is another angle, so now, what I\u2019ve done is come in for, what you probably call a midshot I mean this is a particularly good shot, because Jeds is..<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Right there, im right in the corner,\u00a0 It is one of the better shots Jed isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> It is<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong>\u00a0 And um we but probably won\u2019t…, let\u2019s have a look at it you may not see it in the movie, so let\u2019s look at it with Jed in the room here, okay this is the same line again from a midshot size, this is take one.<\/p>\n

Bilbo: “I should never have left Bag End that was our first mistake\u201d,\u00a0 “Do you know we have an old saying the shire, we learn it from birth we never venture east”\u00a0 woman\u2019s voice: \u201cso tell me master hobbit why did you..”<\/p>\n

Bilbo: ” I should left never Bag End\u00a0 “You know we have an saying the shire, we learn it from birth we never venture east”<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> And take three, lets have a look at the third one<\/p>\n

Bilbo: “I should never have left Bag End\u00a0 “You know we have an saying the shire, we learn it from birth we never venture east” female voice “so tell me master hobbit..”<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yeah so you can sorta see it\u2019s great\u00a0 because Martin gives you all these great choices its interesting too because on the wider shot, Martins performance, which tends to happen with, with, many actors um\u00a0 performance a little bigger, because the camera is further away and as you bring the camera closer in, it\u2019s a natural instant too play<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Draw the audience in<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah you draw the audience in, so, so it\u2019s interesting<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Also the first time you do it with when your doing the wide-shot you\u2019re not really sure how things are going to go because you..<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> It\u2019s almost like a rehearsal isn’t?<\/p>\n

Jabez: That\u2019s if you shoot the wide shots first<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yeah which we usually do try to , I mean normal practice in a movie is to shoot your wide shots first it\u2019s its almost like a rehearsal, you just do as many takes you need to get it working and too give you the pieces of the wide I wanna use , but generally, you know, I,I use wide\u2019s and you use them sparingly you know to set the scene, and the geography for where everybody is, but, but most of the time you want to go to these kinds of shots, this is the a third angle we got now, where we look at the camera very low inside the boat, where low because, we, were really featuring our Aidan who plays Kili<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> He\u2019s the hot dwarve<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Well I yeah, he\u2019s one of them<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> He’s one of them<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> We got two hot dwarves in the shot<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So, so let\u2019s have a look at um this angel here, so again this is a different performance again everything your seeing is a different performance each time.<\/p>\n

Bilbo: “I should never have left Bag End that was our first mistake,\u00a0 “You know we have an old\u00a0 saying the shire, we learn it from birth never venture east”\u00a0 woman\u2019s voice: \u201cso tell me master hobbit why did you venture..”<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Take two<\/p>\n

Bilbo: ” never have left Bag End that was our first mistake,\u00a0 “You know we have an old saying the shire, we learn it from birth never venture east”\u00a0 woman\u2019s voice: \u201cso tell me master hobbit why did you venture..”<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>So what\u2019s interesting about that, was that the camera was following him up, and it was deliberate because I wanted to have Martin down below and let him pop out of the top of the shot because I thought that might potentially cutting point, that he exits the top of the frame and I could jump to a slightly wider shot,\u00a0 then we did, did chase him up to get the tail end of the line so I got the choice of using the tail end as a punch in on this close up too, because, see you sometimes when you are directing, your making those kind of decisions, um as you go<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So there\u2019s another angel here so let\u2019s have a look at some more takes, so this one has got Bilbo and the hot dwarve<\/p>\n

Bilbo<\/strong>: “never have left Bag End that was our first mistake, in the Shire we have this old saying we’ve known it since birth…”<\/p>\n

Bilbo<\/strong>: “I should never have left Bag End that was my first mistake” in the Shire we have an old saying we\u2019ve know in it since birth, never venture east!”<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yeah, basically that was different angles to cover Martin’s line, and then we shot other angels on other characters receiving the line so we can cut to reaction shots. as we need too, this was practically a long scene to shoot because as I said it was three or four pages long, and um it took us a couple of days to go through it all, but um we\u2019ll just have a very quick look we\u2019ll\u00a0 show you how\u00a0 we ended up cutting that little bit in the movie, just a few seconds long, and then ah we’ll move on with some more of our live event.<\/p>\n

Kili<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s nothing, just a scratch\u201d<\/p>\n

Biblo<\/strong>: Its more than just a scratch it\u2019s a wound, Goblins, Trolls, Wargs, none of that was in the contract, I should never have left Bag End that was my first mistake, we have an little saying in the Shire, we learn it from birth, never venture east!”<\/p>\n

Bard<\/strong>: “so tell me master hobbit, why did you venture east?”<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So that was the first look at Luke Evans, as Bard the bowman, now Luke has sent us a message, he wanted to say hi to everybody tuning into this live event, so\u00a0 shall we have a look at what Luke has to say<\/p>\n

Luke Evans<\/strong>:
\nHello everyone, this is Luke Evans, I play Bard The Bowman, um i unfortunately won\u2019t be able to be at the live event , um uh gutted that I can’t be there to seems like it\u2019s going to be a very fun uh day and Pete is going to give lots of tidbits about the second movie, but i thought I would like to join in and say hello, and say how exciting I am about, ah the second movie and seeing what Pete\u2019s actually done so far, what he\u2019s done with my character, um with Bard, looking forward in seeing how Bard is shaping up in the second film, uh its uh been quite awhile since I\u2019ve played him now, last august was the last time so, I\u2019m looking forward to coming back in June, and uh I get to put on the costume and the hair , the character and jump back into middle-earth which um I\u2019ve missed quite a lot ah, so have a great day and ah just say hi to Pete, look forward to seeing you soon again my friend, and uh hello to all the fans, TheOneringe\u2019rs, the Hobbitier\u2019s, whatever else you want to call yourself your all fabulous, love your work, bye.<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Bye Luke<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Great<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah so, when are you going to tell him he\u2019s not in the movie anymore?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> He\u2019s absolutely\u00a0 in the movie the Jed we couldn\u2019t lose Luke he\u2019s fantastic, he is one of the really cool things in the second film<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah he is<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah there might be the odd dwarves\u2019 who expendable, depending on behavior<\/p>\n

Jabez: There are a lot of them<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah there are a lot of them yeah<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Well I actually wanted to remind the viewers right now we do have a hash tag on the screen now, its hash tag ask peter live, and be sure to send in your questions to Peter you use the hash tag and we’ll be answering those live later on in the show<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> If I was to send a question in, if I can just say if I can send a question in over twitter I\u2019d be saying, it will be a question for Jed, and I\u2019ll be saying why the silly hair style?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Because at least in the movie we get to cover it with a wig<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> This is just, this was all done by Weta this whole lot<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Okay great so were on,\u00a0 we\u2019ve got some video questions I think, that we are going to be looking at, some of you very kindly sent in some questions over YouTube and we’ve selected a few and we’ve prerecorded our answers because we wanted actually edit in some clips and it was the easiest way for us to do that so you get to see some little glimpses of The Desolation of Smuag, so let\u2019s look at it your questions, thank you.<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So I have your questions here on the iPad, and we’ll have a look at them<\/p>\n

Chris In The United States:\u00a0 Hey Peter Chris here hope all is well, I\u2019ve heard it said that for you and your writers, the most difficult chapter in the lord of the rings trilogy to craft as a story was the Two Towers and that totally made sense being the middle chapter it has no definitive beginning and it doesn’t have a conclusive ending, um I was just curious if last year when you guys went from two films of the Hobbit to three films, if there was at least one or two or three moments, where your kind of kicking yourself going “ah we’ve just resurrected old problems giving ourselves, again that middle chapter”, so I guess my question to you is how has the process now been? on gong from two to three, and finding the emotional arc for this middle chapter Desolation of Smuag. Thanks<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yeah Well your right, I mean it is complicated to do a middle film um, but the advantages is that we have multiple story lines this time, the first of the Hobbit movies is a fairly liner film, you know Gandalf leads the dwarves, across middle-earth in the beginning of his adventure, the great thing about the second movie, as it was with the two towers actually is that the story starts to split into multiple story lines and we can follow different characters, as the story intensifies, and the stakes go up.<\/p>\n

* Thranduil shots talking to captured dwarves*<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>When Tolkien wrote The Hobbit in 1937, he created the character Thranduil who is now being played by Lee Pace and some ten or fifteen years later, as he was writing the Lord of the rings, he wanted an elvish character to be part of the fellowship so he created Legolas, so when we visit the Woodland realm in the Hobbit it just seemed like a great opportunity for us to actually have Legolas there, he is Thranduil son and it just seemed natural, it also gives us a ability too, expand the story line for the Wood Elves something we where very interested in doing, we also go into the world of men, as well to Laketown and we .. The Master played by Stephen Fry.<\/p>\n

*Stephen Fry dressed up as the The Master*<\/p>\n

Stephen Fry: Now he\u2019s here, he’s here the Master<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Alfred his man servant, the Master of Laketown is, is a rather political figure in terms of the story line he does present an obstacle to the dwarves<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So he’s a valuable character to have, and Stephen Fry just seemed like a natural to us.<\/p>\n

Stephen Fry: I\u2019m savvy… somebody has to take over the mantle from Orlando Bloom, as the most desirable figure to be in a Tolkien adaptation<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>There was a lot of Ironic humor, um an sartorial kind of edge to the Master in the way he, in the book Tolkien wrote, plus we certainly used that tone in the film, but rather than talk about the Master why don\u2019t we actually hear from the man himself Stephen<\/p>\n

Stephen Fry:\u00a0 Hello this is Stephen Fry here, I play the Master of Laketown, in The Hobbit two the desolation of Smaug, I can’t tell you sorry that I\u2019m not in New Zealand at the moment, as we speak England is decimating New Zealand in cricket so that\u2019s irrelevant that not the reason I want to be in New Zealand, though it\u2019s good enough, I want to be in New Zealand because it\u2019s a lovely place to be, but mostly because I just loved working on the Hobbit, um my part is in the Hobbit two and possibly The Hobbit three I don\u2019t know, part of the glories book, magnificent book\u2026<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Surely Stephen won\u2019t mind if we answer another question<\/p>\n

Shaung Lui – China: Hello Peter we are from Beijing China we want to ask you some questions, I really like the role Legolas and uh its player Orlando Bloom, what\u2019s the reason you choose him to play this role? um does he have some similarities with this role<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bloom doesn’t really have similarities to Legolas, he\u2019s much more relaxed, laid back and is a really funny guy<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> were as Legolas tends to be a little um up tight shall we say<\/p>\n

*exchange between Thranduil and Legolas*<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> So no I mean Orlando brings Legolas alive brilliantly as an actor but the character is very different to Orlando in person, in fact um why don\u2019t we say hi to Orlando<\/p>\n

Orlando Bloom: To all my dear friends, and what quite honestly my extended family at this point, down in New Zealand, Peter all the fans down there, I heard it\u2019s a live event I\u2019m really, sorry I can’t be there, nobody understands these worlds or this character quite like Peter so I um, I have a question for Peter, out of your crazy wild creative imitation, what moment are you most looking forward to seeing and appear on the screen? You don\u2019t have to say Legolas, we all know it\u2019s who its goanna be<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Anything your in Orlando, anything thing your in is obviously brilliant, in fact so good we don\u2019t need to debate it here, people can see for themselves in December, but um in terms of other scenes that other people are in I would say the confrontation between Smaug and Bilbo<\/p>\n

*Shots of Smaug Lair with Bilbo*<\/p>\n

Martin Freeman: Smaug,\u00a0 just woken up, so knows someone’s there, I have to put the ring on..<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> It\u2019s probably the highlight of this particular movie for me it\u2019s such an iconic Tolkien scene<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> We’ll just pop back to London to see if Stephen has anything more to add<\/p>\n

Stephen Fry: Eye levels, orange spots and all that,\u00a0 more or less\u00a0 is my feeling is traditional acting, in real sets astonishing quality, I\u2019m a extremely greedy character uh, uh corrupt character and its perhaps the only moment in wherein the Hobbit Tolkien gets into a bit of politics, satire on you know local government uh, I can’t tell you what kind of end I come too, um because I don\u2019t actually know, that\u2019s the mystery, I\u2019m going back to help complete the film and we all hope that you get as much pleasure out of it as we have derived from making it..<\/p>\n

*PJ flicks to next question*<\/p>\n

Marinia – Canada: Hello Peter, my name is Marina, I want to ask will there be new characters and who they are, Hobbit’s is a great movie and love it uh thanks for watching me and I hope you will answer my question<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yeah well I mean the Hobbit has a lot of new characters um, that appear in the second movie the Desolation Of Smaug um, Thranduil who we saw very briefly in the prolog in the Unexpected Journey, Luke Evens as Bard the bowman<\/p>\n

*cut to Luke Evans at Stone Street Studios*<\/p>\n

Luke Evans: To all those brilliant fans, and I know there\u2019s millions of you, I\u2019m Bard the Bowman I\u2019m part of the family now, am ah very glad to be here.<\/p>\n

*cut back to editing room*<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Luke is an absolutely traffic actor, and he has created a character with a sense of enigma about him he has a kind of almost Robin Hoodish kinda mystery slightly shady background<\/p>\n

*shots of Bard in action*<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Were having a lot of fun, a lot of fun with that character not really knowing whether he is a good guy or bad guy<\/p>\n

*shoots of Tauriel*<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>But in terms of a new character if you literally want to say new character, in other words a character that doesn’t appear in Tolkien\u2019s book we have created an Elvish character female character called Tauriel and Tauriel is like this bodyguard of the of Thranduil, she’s part of the elvens Woodland Guard, we call them there not the high elves, they are a more lowly form of elf, she certainly hasn’t got the status of say Legolas who’s the king’s son Evangeline Lilly plays Tauriel and where quite excited about the story line that we have created for Tauriel<\/p>\n

*shots of Tauriel speaking elvish*<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> As you can see she\u2019s uh, she\u2019s not an elf guard to mess with<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> We have one last question so let\u2019s have a look at that<\/p>\n

Three kids from Brazil:<\/strong> Hi Mr Jackson I\u2019m .. I\u2019m … and where your biggest LOTR fans from brazil, um we recently moved to Brazil and LOTR has been in our family for many years, my older brother and sister where huge LOTR fans and went to premieres and uh your first movies of the Lord of The Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring and uh Return of the King, ah today we have a question for you our question is, what is your favorite Lord of The Rings or Hobbit weapon? ours you can see here Gloin\u2019s and Gimli’s battle axe and or throwing axe all of his axes and uh yeah well it was an honor to be speaking to you, I hope you can answer our question,\u00a0 bye, bye<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Sure love to answer your question, just happen to have my favorite Lord of The Rings weapon here, here it is its um Th\u00e9oden\u2019s sword, from Two Towers and Return of the King, Th\u00e9oden\u00a0 um played by Bernard Hill, I just love this design of it, I love the fact it\u2019s got sort of horses, um pretty much the culture of Rohan, it\u2019s based on a almost Viking sword or Anglo-Saxon, early Anglo-Saxon sword, which is how the world of Rohan was really designed in the movies, and its, very, very heavy, I mean this is a real sword, its steel and brass, and it feels good, it actually very heavy you\u2019d be surprised at how heavy it is, obviously when we were doing fight scenes, we usually create a much more light weight version of the sword for the actors to use, you wouldn’t wanna do .. anybody to get hit by this thing, and uh it is like a real sword, weapon made of steel , but look thank you very much for submitting those questions, it was a lot of fun and um, shall we just pop back to London and see how Stephens going<\/p>\n

Stephen Fry:<\/strong> .. devoted to the Lord of The Rings trilogy and the first of the hobbits so we have a lot to um you know live up to I hope we done and give you some pleasure and some comedy\u00a0 as well as the share delight, the human spirit shines out, it is one of the great paradoxes of fantasy. It is true fantasy and humanity shines out … anyway not through.. I\u2019m probably talking far ,far to much, and just wanted to say all my love sorry I can’t be at Peters side doing this very special DVD Extra, much love.<\/p>\n

*PJ switches off Video*<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Sorry about that Stephen I love you, but honesty you can\u2019t expect to make those comments about the New Zealand cricket team, and get away unscathed, alright<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Will we actually we have our first twitter question on screen right now, and is, Mr.Jackson during the film process how difficult is it too stay on track on plans?<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>I can very difficult, I mean, you know staying on schedule and on obliviously on budget is incredibly important, there\u2019s nothing more stressful than going over budget on a movie but ah, sometimes you don\u2019t have any control over it particularly with weather you know if we are filming outside and especially if you\u2019re in a remote location and it happens to be pouring with rain, there\u2019s not a lot we can do about we didn\u2019t have a lot of that on this film didn\u2019t we,\u00a0 it once or twice?<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We had that one, two days at the end of location that we had to..<\/p>\n

Jabez:<\/strong> That flooded out Nelson<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yeah we had to leave Nelson, which is actually a location that appears in the Desolation of Smaug, um where the dwarves are going down\u00a0 a river in barrels and we the police turn up on set telling us there was a flood warning there was a torrential storm about to hit us so we literally had to get everything out of there about two days ahead than we plan to, so those things are stressful but, you know, what I do in the morning is I show up I look at the script you know at I have to film that day, I rehearse with the cast first thing we do on\u00a0 a day shooting and then you literally plan out how many shots you can do that day, you know it depends on how difficult the shots are and how difficult the scene is it can vary, the number of camera angle shots, you can get in a particular day um, some days its as little as six or seven other days it could twelve or fourteen, and so you kind of know and you sit there and you plan it and actually you plow your way through the day to try to get to the end of it. but yup it is, one of the most stressful things about film making<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We actually have another question, another video question for Peter, so ah shall we have a look to see who it is<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert:<\/strong> Peter Jackson, Stephen Colbert I got a question for you about the elves of Mirkwood or as it used to be called Greenwood The Great, now, here’s Mirkwood up here, I wanna know whether\u00a0 your making a diffraction between Thranduil and Legolas who are Sindarin and the elves who live in Mirkwood, their subjects who are “Avari” or “Noldor” or a mixture of “Avari” “Noldor” and Sindarin but there are lesser elves than Thranduil and Legolas in the Tolkien methous, are you showing that diffraction, that these elves are members of the ” Avari ” who did not heed the call around the shores of the Lake Cuivienen When Orome. came and called them to Valinor, are you taking that into consideration? Thank You<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yes, the answer to your question Stephen is yes, but\u00a0 I have actually have a question for you Stephen Colbert, you where very kind to invite me on your show last year and anyone who appears on the show, Jabez do you mind just handing me your mug, anyone who appears on the Colbert report show gets a free mug which is nice but it is quite small and when I was sitting at the table being interviewed, there was a much bigger mug sitting there and you know I like to have a big cup of tea several times a day and so I just happen to walk out with the largest sized mug, I don\u2019t know how quite it happened but it is the one that was on the table one of your guests drink out off on air, now let\u2019s just have a look at the difference between these two mug’s if we could, I\u2019ll come closer to the camera, there you go, now can you see the difference? Basically the one that you give away for free has got dishwasher proof ink on it, the white ink stays, the one that your guests drink out off, look i mean all just worn away, this used to say the Colbert report but now it doesn’t, we\u2019ve had this through the dish washer maybe once or twice and it just washed away, so my question for you Stephen is that the mug that the guests drink out of, do you ever clean it? do every you worry about spreading germs?<\/p>\n

Jabez:<\/strong> When Peter steals something he likes it to be of certain quality<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> I didn’t steal it Jabez I mean I just happen to find it in my hand when I walked out of the building onto the street, I didn’t know how that happened. But it is apart from that it does actually taste quite nice the tea<\/p>\n

Jabez:<\/strong> Right<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Even if it has to be second hand<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah, yup<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We actually, we do have a second twitter question up. Do you always edit barefoot?, Peter?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> It\u2019s actually a very good question and the answer is yes I do I, people I, I see, things written about me where they talk about me not wearing shoes on set, which I actually never do if you look of any footage of me,, I have to wear shoes because of health and safety don\u2019t want a light to be dropped on my toe or something like that, but in the comfort, relative comfort of the cutting room, I can put my feet up on the table and sit back and its fantastic<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah,\u00a0 I wish I could do that<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We actually have another special ah another guest, who would like to say hello, so why don\u2019t we roll it and see who, who we\u2019ve got<\/p>\n

Lee Pace:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hi Lee Pace here, for those who don\u2019t know I play Thranduil, King of the Woodland elves and in the Hobbit the Desolation of Smuag, I heard that Peter is giving a sneak peek of the new film and I\u2019d figured that I\u2019d logon and check it out, now you’ve seen a brief glimpse of my character in the prolog of the Hobbit An Unexpected Journey and the ancient animosity between the elves of the Woodland realm and the dwarves of Erebor, and I think it\u2019s going to be really intriguing to revisit that but this time it will be in my halls on my terms, and I don\u2019t think they are going to like it<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Hmm elves are tricky aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> They are, they are very tricky and dwarves don\u2019t trust them at all<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> And I don\u2019t blame you<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> No, But we do have another question and this actually one from me<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong>\u00a0 Jed what torture would you like to put Peter Jackson through that was inflected upon the actors? Hmm, rotacery, Barrel or maybe a combination of all of\u00a0 these things<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Interesting<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> I\u2019m not actually sure that I want to do any of those things because I would quite like to work with you in the future, but um probably the one that I would like to put Peter through is maybe putting him on the rotacery over the top of the fire<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> That did look incredibly uncomfortable<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> It was very uncomfortable<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> That did look, and um there was one funny story that actually, that I remember, we had all these dwarves on if you remember the first Hobbit movie, we had these dwarves are on a spit being cooked by the trolls, they, we literally strapped everybody into this harness, when we rotated you guys around<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>We had to, like everything in a movie you where up there for hours being rotated around and around and then it seemed to go okay, Mark Hadlow looked very, very pale, even through prospect\u00a0 rubber\u00a0\u00a0 make up when Jabez and I where editing the scene a few months afterwards that we, where watching every take we did, and we just heard very faintly on the sound track, which I never heard on the day, on the sound track we heard Mark Hadlow\u00a0 say in a very, very, sick weak voice, he plays Dori saying “can we stop doing this I think I\u2019m going to be sick”<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> What\u2019s funny we didn’t hear it on the day he kept rotating him around<\/p>\n

Jabez: <\/strong>.. Mark said can we just stop for a couple of minutes please, and then, Peter says pretty loudly “ok and roll them” and away they go<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> we were stacked on top of each other we had ah ,um\u00a0 ah harness on the back of\u00a0 it had these kind of metal plates which were hooked onto it, we had to go up in a certain order so those who went up first where up there for a much longer time than Mark Hadlow<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Well rather you then me I was in quite a comfortable chair at the time<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah no, it was fun, fun, actually we have another special guest, another surprised guest video, um so I think we should probably look at that see who it is<\/p>\n

Billy Boyd: Hello I\u2019m Billy Boyd I played Peregrin Took or Pippin in the Lord Of the Rings trilogy, so I hear tonight that\u00a0 Peter is doing a questions and answers, so I would like an answer to a question, and that question is, in the Fellowship we went as far as the Misty Mountains in middle-earth but here in The Hobbit we go further east, will we be seeing any new wild lands? In the next Hobbit film? that\u2019s my question<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>That\u2019s a very good question Billy, very good, very good, um, I think the most area’s of the lands we are going to is Mirkwood, we saw that\u00a0 very briefly in the Unexpected Journey, in the Desolation of Smuag the company of dwarves get right into the darkness the heart of darkness of Mirkwood, now actually Billy if you remember in The Fellowship of The Ring and you should remember it was only ten years ago um, you guys went through the Misty Mountains, through the Mines of Moria you came out and then the Fellowship headed south straight away, down the valley to Lothlorien and then you took the Anduin River down to Amon Hen, so you actually manage to very cleverly to bypass the borders of Mirkwood, entirely, which was probably a good thing, I can show you a bit of art work, um, I just pulled out a couple of pieces to give everyone a glimpse of what Mirkwood is going to look like in the movie, now if we can zoom in on that, are you able to get closer to it?, so what we’ve designed and um actually Gus Hunter did this art, is the tiny dwarves in this great big looming creepy forest, I wanted to try to give it a sense of foreboding and um grandeur and it used to be Greenwood the Great but it has become sick and diseased, with this Dol Guldur , the fortress\u00a0 Dol Guldur is spreading evil through the forest, and this is another view there\u2019s dwarves there, there\u2019s a broken bridge and they have to figure out a way to cross um this stream of Mirkwood, so yeah, I think that’s it’s going to be an interesting environment, one of the scarcer parts of this story.<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Yeah the set itself was amazing to work with. it was pretty scary actually; it was very, very spooky set to work on and had that kinda dark feel about it, even from a physical perspective<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Yeah, yeah,<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> That\u2019s great, We have a have another question from a special cast guest I think we should cut to that and have a look to see who it is..<\/p>\n

Evangeline Lilly: When I was working my ADR Philipa was naughty enough to show me, um the unfinished, mockup of Thranduil Realm, and it looked insanely cool but of course it didn\u2019t have any of the amazing Peter Jackson love put into it and so I\u2019m wondering if Peter you can verbally give us a glimpse into um what your vision your take on Thranduil realm will be?<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Yes, let me show you Evangeline, I know it must be frustrating because your, your, I mean Evangeline was in the Woodland realm and yet we were pretty much surrounded by green screens… ah but I can give everyone a little look, so um Tolkien describes the Woodland Realm as being in like a subterranean world which is unusual for elves because usually dwarves live underground, but um, none the less that\u2019s what have done, and this is a piece of art work John Howe did for us, if we can have a look at that, it\u2019s the, it\u2019s the entrance to the Woodland Realm, it\u2019s a bridge a narrow bridge that goes over a raging river then you enter this elvish kingdom through this door, we wanted to make it seem like it\u2019s very defensive and impregnable, this is the only way to get into this kingdom, and then once your inside, we tried to figure out a way to make a cavernous you know underground world look elvish in the way you expect a certain beauty and grandeur and so there\u2019s light filtering in through the cracks in the ceiling, there\u2019s, there’s roots of trees, they fashioned\u00a0 into bridges and this, is sort of the feeling….<\/p>\n

*cut*<\/em><\/p>\n

Dominic Monaghan:<\/strong> The Hobbit questions and answers thing, and uh I want to be a little bit cheeky and ask a couple of\u00a0 questions myself, the first one what\u2019s the best Peter Jackson rumor you’ve heard? That isn\u2019t\u00a0 true? and the second one I\u2019m compression to J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s work and your work, what\u2019s the thing your the happiest about in the transferring of, from the literature to the film, mine would be the casting did you ever think of another Gimli another Gandalf another Frodo, another Merry obviously, this is the view from my house wild<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Hey Dom thank you, um\u00a0 your question the rumor, the rumor question, craziest rumor, the one that made me laugh the most was just after the Lord of The Rings and there was a rumor going around Wellington, that was pretty strong because several people came up to me and said is this really true, really true like they believed it, is that um in order to avoid paying tax, um I was going to move my entire family onto a ship and live outside of the New Zealand economic zone, outside the twelve miles away from the coast to sort of my life on a ship, to avoid paying tax, apart being feeling sea sick, badly seasick, I\u2019m very happy to live on land and very happy to pay tax, that was kind of a funny rumor<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> <\/strong>I guess somebody starts these things and then they just, in the case of um these movies rumors tend to become fact and you tend to see things reported in the newspaper, aren\u2019t remotely true its um\u00a0 interesting, the world we live in<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Indeed, we do have another twitter question now, and the question is will the Necromancer play a larger role in the plot of the Desolation of Smuag than it did in the first film?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> uh, the answer is yes, that\u2019s all I\u2019m saying<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Very conscience, well we heard we had an extra special treat for our viewers, do you know what that is?<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> I hope I know what it is, look um I didn’t want to wrap out of this live event without giving a little look at the movie, can\u2019t show you the trailer yet, the trailer is still being made, as we speak um, visual effects being done, you can look for the trailer this summer, um films I\u2019m sure no doub most of you will seet your going to see this summer, you’ll\u00a0 our trailer, but uh at the moment, with the film being edited we are literally, cutting it together we are limited on what we can actually show, we do have a sequence which Jabez and I have ,have worked on that, we thought would be fun to show, it needs a little setting up, it\u2019s part of the, kind of appendixes Tolkien wrote part of the expansion of the Hobbit were doing its not in the actual Hobbit book itself, but it is building on the story line actually of the Necromancer and ah Dol Guldur, which was um, that we just talked about, if you remember Galadriel in The Unexpected Journey, um, and she was commenting on the Morgal blade that Radagast had recovered from Dol Guldur and she talks about it belonging to the King of Angmar who was buried in the High Fells, a mountains\u2019 range in Rhudaur, so in the Desolation of Smaug, Gandalf goes to the High Fells, to investigate how this blade may have got out into this world, the High Fells are the tombs where the nine kings of men were buried, so shall we just have a look at a little\u00a0 clip from the movie.<\/p>\n

*DOS movie clip*<\/p>\n

PJ: <\/strong>Well there we go, so you can go and find out what happens next, a little mystery that Gandalf is following in the Desolation of Smaug, so Jed thank you very much for thank you for being, helping me get through this<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Your welcome<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Jabez, thank you<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> I wanted to thank the fans and of course, and for\u00a0 Peter for taking sometime out of your busy schedule editing the film to be with us<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Great now um this is really, in a way to get a first got the chance to say hi to everyone in 2013, I\u2019m sure that a lot of people who\u2019ve who are watching this have been following our blogs, and just to let you know the blogs will continue this year, in fact this is almost like the first blog quite a long one<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> We should turn it into a trilogy<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> But the um the blogs will continue and ah we look forward to catching up with you during the year as we move towards our release in December, so thank you so much for taking the time, to come here and sit where ever you are in the world, whatever time\u00a0 it is and put up with us babbling along, and thank you for buying our DVD as well<\/p>\n

Jed:<\/strong> Now it\u2019s time for breakfast<\/p>\n

PJ:<\/strong> Great<\/p>\n

*lots of clips from behind the scenes of DOS*
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