The first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights, has been awarded the ‘great book’ title – the best children’s book from the last 70 years of Carnegie medal winners. You can read more here.
Northern Lights wins Carnegie of Carnegies
June 22, 2007
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Movie Technician Interview
June 15, 2007
New community member Queste Oscure Materie, an Italian fansite, have an exclusive interview with a technician working on The Golden Compass. He talks a little about the film’s technical aspects; “The greater part of sequences is shot on greenscreen. There are a lot of contributions on liveaction. We will use them to mix them with the digital ones. For example, the movie poster is all digital made. It was realized by a society in London.” Read more.
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Extra filming in Oxford
June 11, 2007
Some additional filming for The Golden Compass will be taking place in Oxford this week – the 15th and 16th of June. The area around the Radcliffe Camera (pictured left) will see some footage being captured, although no actors will be present. Thanks to Anne for the tip.
Posted in Oxford, The Golden Compass movie
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TGC Videogame Quotes
June 9, 2007
Game Informer Magazine have a look at The Golden Compass videogame featuring some new quotes from the development team behind the game. Lead designer Dax Berg remarked that “No matter how much we love the book, the film, or the universe, it is our goal to create the gameplay first, and then wrap the narrative of the universe around that. If you try to do it the other way you often do not end up with a solid game.” He goes on to explain some of the gameplay mechanics, including a “deception minigame”. Read more.
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Production Notes for The Golden Compass
June 8, 2007
New Line made available at Cannes the full production notes for The Golden Compass and we’re pleased to bring them to you. They open with a message from the film’s writer and director, Chris Weitz, who says that he was “absolutely stunned by the imagination, daring and intelligence of the books.” The notes go on to detail the movie’s design philosophy, inspirations and colour palate (among other things).
Whilst it’s written for an audience coming to His Dark Materials for the first time, there’s much interesting information to be had in the text. There’s some words too from Philip Pullman, who says, “I’ve done my part. I handed it over to Chris and his team to make the film. I couldn’t have people to trust my story to who were more trustworthy, and I know my story is in good hands.”
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