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* ThrowItIn: Jackson just went to the British Embassy and asked the people there if they would come and sing "Mademoiselle from Armitieres". None of them were professional singers, but obliged.
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* DoingItForTheArt: The VFX studios for the film restored all 100 hours of archive footage given to them by the Imperial War Museums and BBC for free. Only a tiny fraction was used in the final cut.
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* DoingItForTheArt: The VFX studios for the film restored all 100 hours of archive footage given to them by the Imperial War Museums and BBC for free. Only a tiny fraction was used in the final cut.cut.
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* ShownTheirWork: In the accompanying "making-of" material at the end of the film, Peter Jackson chronicles the process of making the film, including:
** Parsing through hundreds of hours of film footage and interviews with soldiers and splicing them together to give the average Tommy's experience from enlistment to demobilization.
** Adjusting the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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* ShownTheirWork: In the accompanying "making-of" material at the end of the film, Peter Jackson chronicles the process of making the film, including:
** Parsing through hundreds of hours of film footage and interviews with soldiers and splicing them together to give the average Tommy's experience from enlistment to demobilization.
** Adjusting the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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** Adjusting the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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** Plus they had to adjust the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand, and conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades.
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** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
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** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.voiceovers.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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* ShownTheirWork: In the accompanying "making-of" material at the end of the film, Peter Jackson chronicles the process of making the film, including:
** Parsing through hundreds of hours of film footage and interviews with soldiers and splicing them together to give the average Tommy's experience from enlistment to demobilization.
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
** Parsing through hundreds of hours of film footage and interviews with soldiers and splicing them together to give the average Tommy's experience from enlistment to demobilization.
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
