Product Description Throughout the making of the Harry Potter movies, designers and craftspeople were tasked with creating fabulous feasts, flying brooms, enchanted maps, and much more, in addition to all the magical items necessary for everyday wizarding life. Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault chronicles the work of the graphics and prop teams in creating lovingly crafted items; and the stunning inventiveness used to create a rich, filmic universe. From the Back Cover Throughout the making of the eight Harry Potter movies, designers and craftspeople were tasked with creating fabulous chocolate-fantasy feasts, flying brooms, enchanted maps, and much more, in addition to numerous magical items necessary in a wizard s everyday life for example, newspapers with moving photos, vicious textbooks, and Howlers. Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault chronicles the work of the graphics department in creating vibrant and imaginative labels for potions bottles, brooms, and candy; the creation of Quidditch Quaffles, Bludgers, and Golden Snitches, lovingly crafted by the prop making team; and the stunning inventiveness used by the entire crew to create a rich, bewitched filmic universe. Accompanying the captivating text are never-before-seen art and design concepts, unit photography, and other filmmaking secrets from the Warner Bros. archive. This striking full-color compendium includes two exclusive bonus inserts Gilderoy Lockhart s classroom questionnaire and a Weasleys Wizard Wheezes catalog as well as many more surprises." About the Author Jody Revenson is a seasoned writer with a strong background in the arts. Singer, composer, and performer. Armchair photographer. Bad dancer. Student of popular culture, American and European history, architecture, photography, mixed-media crafts, comic books, mythology, illustration, and traveling. Author of Harry Potter The Creature Vault and Harry Potter The Book of Magical Places, as well as several Disney titles.
