WONKA PRODUCTION
the scene and kept on having to pull the ceiling off or pull out the walls.” Framestore then stitched Grant’s performances together. “It’s incredibly complicated,” according to Page. “You’ve got these different performances and are trying to gel them into one so it feels like a singular one.” The film features 1163 visual effects shots spread across a host of set pieces and set builds, and Page was particularly pleased with the creation of the factory used at the end of the movie. “We were very involved in that from coming up with lots of ideas going to the castle location,” he says. “We spent a lot of time trying to work out the different parts of the factory. “There’s the waterfall – and that’s powering these machines, which are pumping the chocolate. Then there’s the area where the ingredients are added and flow through the rainbow bridge, moving on through other contraptions. These then travel into the machine that makes the final chocolate. It was such a fun process.”
TEMPLE RUN Eclectic characters and a galloping giraffe grace the halls of St Paul’s Cathedral
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