POTTERHEAD

We are Potterheads. Do you know what  'Potterhead' means? It means the fans of HARRY POTTER. 

Since we have promised to show the shooting place in popular films , GET READY for the breathtaking views taken in our next film which is HARRY POTTER.

           

Kings Cross Station (Platform 9 3/4)

…That handy train line will then whisk you straight to Kings Cross, the bustling terminus at which Harry, Hermione, Ron and friends board the Hogwarts’ Express. Obviously, Platform 9 3/4 doesn’t really exist (sorry kids) but there is a BRONZE PLAQUE marking the spot where it would stand, and a luggage cart halfway through the wall that’s ideal for photo ops. In a parallel world, Harry would have boarded the train just down the road, at the station J.K. Rowling was visualising when she wrote the book (“I was actually thinking of Euston,” she told the BBC, “so anyone who’s been to the real platforms 9 and 10 in King’s Cross will realise they don’t bear a great resemblance to the platforms in the book”). The exteriors are different too – Harry and Ron’s Ford Anglia ride began next door outside the much more scenic St. Pancras. If they’d boarded the train there, they’d have ended up in Paris.

Location: Harrow School  (Professor Flitwick’s Classroom  )

Hogwarts’ tiny Charms professor, Filius Flitwick, instructs his pupils in the art of Wingardium Leviosa in Harrow School’s oldest classroom, the Fourth Form Room that dates back to 1615. It’s a great place to kick off a Pott-tour of London locations. Harrow has lots in common with Hogwarts: a sport that defies logic (Fives), some natty uniforms and a direct train from King’s Cross, albeit on the entirely steam-free Metropolitan Line. Like Hogwarts, it has an entrance exam, although you don’t need to do magic to pass it. 

 

Cafe Attack    (Location: Piccadilly Circus/Shaftesbury Ave)

The cafe where Harry, Hermione and Ron’s have their fraught late-night cuppa is buried somewhere on a Leavesden soundstage, but even if it did exist we can’t recommend going there – it’s crawling with Death Eaters and the service is terrible. It’s a simple business to follow in their Deathly Hallows footsteps, though. Just take the tube to Piccadilly Circus, pick the exit marked ‘Shaftesbury Avenue’ and head that way.

                                    

Ministry Of Magic  (Location: Great Scotland Yard, Scotland Place )

As Rufus Scrimgeour (Bill Nighy) intones at the beginning of The Deathly Hallows, it’s a time of murder, disappearances and raids, so it’s fitting that the Ministry of Magic’s exterior shots were filmed at Great Scotland Yard where such things are all in a day’s work. It’s an easy trip across the West End, if your flying car is in for a service, follow in the footsteps of Arthur Weasley and take the tube to shiny Westminster Tube Station. From there, it’s a short mosey along Whitehall to Scotland Place. Sadly, you won’t find the red phonebox that Harry and Mr Weasley use to enter the Ministry in The Order Of The Phoenix, but, as you’ll discover in The Deathly Hallows, there’s a new route in anyway.

(Millennium Bridge) Location: St. Pauls

It took a really long time to stop the Millennium footbridge wobbling, and what do the Death Eaters do but turn up and knock it down. Boo! Happily, it’s standing again now and you can walk across it without (much) fear of a watery death plunge a la Half-Blood Prince. From the bridge you can just spy the Gothic spires of the Houses of Parliament, past which Harry and his fellow members of Dumbledore’s army whizz on broomsticks in The Order Of The Phoenix. Lambeth Bridge, across which the Knight Bus squeezes in The Prisoner Of Azkaban, is only a bend in the river away upstream.

 Okay guys, that's all about Harry Potter. Okay then, BYE!

LEGEND KOREAN DRAMA

Hello again guys!

How was your day? We hope that you are still in your mood to view our next postmortem of shooting places. So, before this we have already updated about two movies. This time, we are going to present you with a drama. It is a legend Korean drama.

Have you ever heard about WINTER SONATA? Yeah, that is our chosen drama. So let us travel again. J

1. Namiseom Island - Snow Falling of Winter Sonata

Many scenes in this film were shot here. Usually, we’ll take around 2 to 3 hours for a leisure walk around the island. So, here are some scenes that were shot in this island and the condition of the island currently seen.

2. Chuncheon Area- Winter Sonata Cafe

This is the café where Winter Sonata was first announced. There are clips, souvenirs and pictures from the cast. Even the necklace that Jun-sang gave Yu-jin is for sale.

3. Jungdo Island This is where Jun-sang and Yu-jin rode their bicycles. This sign has been placed here for fans to find the location with ease.  4. Gongjicheon (road with the white fence)

This is the place where Jun-sang ang Yu-jin get off the bus together after missing their stop. They also return to this place 10 years later in a retrospective journey.

5. Famous shopping street in Chuncheon 

Yu-jin and Jun-sang promise to meet here on New Year's Eve. Yu-jin waits outside in the cold not realizing that Jun-sang was in a car accident. The two return to the scene 10 years later. 

6. Choongang High School 

This school is the set for the scenes during the cast's high school days. In reality this school is an all boys' school. It was established in Seoul in 1910. The show was filmed here during the school's winter break. 

7. Seoul Plaza Hotel

Jun-sang checks into this hotel for an extended period of time. It is just outside this hotel where Jun-sang is in his second car accident which brings back all of his memories. 

8. Oedo Island  In the end, the two lovers reunited and live in a house that Jun-sang built for Yu-jin. The house is located at Oedo Island.

So, what do you guys think about the places of Winter Sonata. It is romantic right?

What are you waiting for? After this, you must make sure that you and your partner will get the chance to go there and experiencing what had been experienced by Jun-sang and Yu-jin.

Ok, bye for now!

CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW

After seeing the title, there must be only one movie wandering in your head, right? So, this time we are going to show you the locations that exist in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN.

In the movie there are real locations and also imaginary locations which were created for this movie. We will share with you about the real locations, so join us to the Caribbean. Let’s go!

1.TORTUGA

Jack Sparrow and Will Turner in Tortuga

Tortuga, also known as Tortuga Port, named by the Spanish after the turtle it resembled, was an island in the Caribbean, located north of Hispaniola. Of all the pirate islands in the Caribbean, none was the equal of Tortuga. Dangerous, boisterous, drunken, and bawdy, Tortuga was a pirate heaven. The isle of Tortuga became the center of piracy in the 17th century. With its cantered, rotting docks, weatherbeaten buildings, and odd assortment of livestock running free, it was far less civilized than Port Royal. Tortuga appeared to be generally a lawless place, one of the only places a pirate considered to be free with no governing law, despite the expansion of the East India Trading Company. Scenes in Tortuga were filmed primarily in St. Vincent in the productions of The Curse of the Black Pearl as well as the back-to-back productions of Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.

2. PORT ROYAL

Port Royal during 18th century

Port Royal was a major city and a bustling harbor town situated on the western end of Palisadoes in Jamaica. Founded by the English, a garrison of the British Royal Navy maintained a presence at the town. During the 17th century, the city was a popular place for buccaneers, eventually becoming the major center of piracy in the Caribbean, though that situation would change in later years. For Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, scenes in Port Royal were primarily filmed in St. Vincent in the Grenadines, part of the Windward Islands in the south Caribbean, was the production base in the southern Caribbean. The Port Royal harbour was built at Wallilabou Bay on St. Vincent (the dock and a facade have been left), and the small town set (which has now gone) at Chateaubelair.Since the completion of the first film, there had been some damage to the dock, which had to be rebuilt for Dead Man's Chest while the church for the opening wedding scene was constructed in Palos Verdes, on the coast south of Los Angeles, the same location where the original Port Royal set had been built for the first film.

3. SINGAPORE

The Singapore concept art

Singapore was an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, Asia. The name Singapore is derived from the Malay words singa (lion) and pura (city). Somehow, we feel proud to say this because it is just our neighbour right beside us. J

Sao Feng's bath house in Singapore became the site of a confrontation between Sao Feng and Hector Barbossa, during the latter's quest to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. The intervention of the East India Trading Company led to a full-scale battle in the streets of Singapore, during which a fireworks factory was destroyed by Jack the monkey. With haste, Barbossa's crew set sail in the HaiPeng, soon followed by Sao Feng himself in the Empress, intending to track down Jack Sparrow.

4. THE CASPIAN SEA

The Caspian Sea was the largest lake on Earth by area, with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers. It was a landlocked endorheic body of water lying between Russia and Iran. It had a maximum depth of about 1,025 meters.

Pirate Captain Hector Barbossa became Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea, and was wanted dead or alive by the East India Trading Company for piracy in the area. His predecessor was Borya Palachnik.

5. FORT CHARLES

Jack tried to escape at Fort Charles

Jack is ready to be hung 

Fort Charles was a stronghold located at the bustling harbor town of Port Royal. Located on a bluff overlooking the harbor, Fort Charles was one of England's biggest government fort in the Caribbean. The fort served as the base of operations for British Royal Navy forces commanded by Commodore James Norrington. Towering over the town, Fort Charles was supposed to protect the ships of the Royal Navy moored in the harbor below. The fortress also included the Commodore's office, a dank prison cellblock and, in the center courtyard of the fort, a gallows to remind the townspeople just where they were. For Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, scenes in Fort Charles was built on a three-acre bluff on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, south of Los Angeles, on the site of Marineland, a one-time amusement park (near the Point Vicente Lighthouse seen in Pearl Harbor).

6. SPAIN

Carriage riding to the Cadiz Royal Palace in Spain

The Kingdom of Spain was the European country that was in charge of the Spanish Royal Navy. Spain also owned many colonies on the North American mainland. Its capital city was Madrid. For filming On Stranger Tides, a scene of a carriage arriving to the royal palace in Cádiz was filmed at Castillo San Cristobal in Old San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. Castillo San Cristobal was one of the two great fortifications built by Spain to guard San Juan from land attack. Construction began in 1634 and was completed in 1783, making it absolutely period-correct for the film's mid-eighteenth-century setting.

7. CARIBBEAN

From top view of Caribbean

Well, this is the most crucial location in this movie. The Caribbean were composed of three great island groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Most of the islands were controled by some of the colonial powers of Europe, like Great Britain, Spain, France, or Holland. There were also islands controled by pirates, like Tortuga, and islands controled by the Caribbean natives, like Pelegosto. 

"Welcome to the Caribbean, love." (Jack Sparrow said to Elizabeth Swann)

So guys, we have done for this post. Wow, there must be a lot more interesting places in this movie that we eager to know, right? Can’t wait to see our next post? What will be our next entry?

Just wait and see. J

  

VAMPIRES' WORLD

Hi guys! It looks like we meet again. J

So, this time we would like to share with you all about the locations of a film. If we tell you that the film is about love between a vampire and a human, we bet that you guys will know what it is all about right? 

So, we are going to share some shooting places that exist in TWILIGHT. Enjoy viewing this post! J

1. Vernonia, Oregon (aka: Forks, Washington)

The picture is the street view of the Wauna Federal Credit Union building in Vernonia which played as the Forks Police Station during filming. The two additional distinctive landmarks aside the building are seen in this movie when Edward and Bella returned to town from Port Angeles. The house in ‘Forks’ where Bella lives with her father Charlie is about 20 miles east of Vernonia by the Washington border in Saint Helens at 184 South 6^th Street.  

2. Carver Cafe

Bella and her father in the cafe

The outside of the cafe

This café was used as the local casual dining restaurant in Forks, and plays the part of The Lodge in this movie as mentioned in the novels. According to their website, it has always been a restaurant since in the late 50’s. There is a house behind this café which was owned by a husband and wife who built this café. The husband was injured in a logging accident and because of that, the family had to find different income, so, the wife ran the café. It is always looks like a restaurant but most of locals talk about their memories as a donut shop.

3. The View Point Inn

This inn is just 22 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon, near Crown Point with a panoramic view of the entire Columbia River George (the city lights of Portland and Vancouver). The prom scenes in Twilight were filmed here. This 1994 world class boutique hotel and dining restaurant serves lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. The inn also available for banquets, private parties, weddings and other special events.

4. Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

Bella and Edward

This is where the deer hunt in the prologue of Twilight is filmed, as well as some shots of Bella with Edward in the treetops.

5. Kalama and Madison High Schools (aka: Forks High School)

This is Kalama High School

This is the inside of Madison High School

Forks High School was actually a combination of two different schools. Kalama High School in Kalama, Washington was used for the exterior shots of the school - such as the parking lot scene in which Edward first shows his superhuman speed and strength. The cafeteria scenes were shot at Madison High School in Portland, Oregon, which was also a location used for Gus Van Sant's 2007 independent film "Paranoid Park." 

6. Indian Beach (aka: First Beach, LaPush, Washington)

Indian Beach, Ecola State Park is the location used as the surfing spot for the high school kids of Forks. It is also where the scene of Jacob telling Bella the wolfs origins and the ‘cold ones’ were filmed in this movie.

7. Olde Town District, Saint Helens, Oregon (aka: Port Angeles, Washington)

This is where the scenes in "Port Angeles" are filmed for Twilight:

• The "Petite Jolie" dress shop, where Angela & Jessica pick out their prom dresses, is actually the Angel Hair Salon at 251 South 1st Street.

• The "Thunderbird and Whale" book store, where Bella buys her vampire research material, is actually a private office building at 260 South 2nd Street.

• Behind the bookstore site is the alleyway where Edward swoops in to rescue Bella from her would-be attackers, on 1st Street.

• The "Bloated Toad" Italian Restaurant, where Edward opens up to Bella, is actually a construction company at 333 South 1st Street.

8. Coquitlam, British Columbia (aka: LaPush, Washington)

The scenes with Jacob and Billy Black's residence were filmed in Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver, BC. The private residence is in clear view from the street and it's on a corner lot located at Victoria Drive, Gilleys Trail and Quarry Road. The house was painted red to match the color in the book prior to filming.

Okay guys, we think these are all for this post. So, how was it? Fun, right? Ha-ha

If you want more attractions from different movies, do come and visit us here. See yaa! J

TIME TO SAY HELLO!

Hello everyone!

Well, this is our first entry and of course, we would like to say Hello. J So, we are actually decided to come out with a blog that will definitely give something to our viewer. You must be wondering on our topic right? Ha-ha.

Apparently, our blog will expose and tell you all about the places or locations where the filming of movies and dramas took place. Aren’t you feeling excited?

Well you must at least feel a little bit excited as after this you will dig out something amusing and went together with us to the places where the movies took place. We will show you and make you remind to all those wonderful movies.

Please make sure that you will not miss any updates from us. You will feel like this when you view our blog.