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285 - Heather Pollington - From Hollywood To The Symbolic World

The Symbolic World

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The Role of Props in the Production of Harry Potter

I started off really doing very background props, and what you need in that case is a lot of quantity and a lot of texture. And I spent about six months of my career at the beginning just making these books. So there's lots of people that I've worked with over the years, and especially my job share partner, Kathy, who's been part of this process. There are too many to name as I go through. This is Harry Potter. As you can see in these two images from the film, there's a lot of documents and a few real books. And then here, which is a few minutes away from the camera, these are fake.

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