{"id":61,"date":"2009-06-22T06:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T06:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:58:15","slug":"harry-potter-at-swinley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/22\/harry-potter-at-swinley\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter at Swinley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My usual spot of mountain biking in Swinley Forest has been interrupted a little recently by some &#8220;major filming&#8221; (as they put it). Discovered lots of green screen, some cranes, and lots of crew vehicles. Not to mention a lot of mess! Spotted signs marked &#8216;WB&#8217; and had a guess&#8230; big effects film, Warner Brothers&#8230; Harry Potter perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>Did a bit of a search on the net and found my guess was right! Apparently they&#8217;re there filming some scenes for one or both of the Deathly Hallows films (due for release in two parts in 2010 and 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these are a few photos I&#8217;ve taken. They&#8217;re here for a couple of months apparently. I&#8217;ll be there every few weeks likely as usual so I&#8217;ll keep an eye on it, though I&#8217;m just there at the weekend for the biking so there&#8217;s not much activity to see.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadkenny\/3625417681\" title=\"Potter filming in Swinley Forest (2009)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3398\/3625417681_aa1c0a004f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Potter filming in Swinley Forest (2009)\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nCopyright (c) Tim Moore<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadkenny\/3647184841\" title=\"Harry Potter filming - On Location (2009)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3609\/3647184841_c3542d239b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Harry Potter filming - On Location (2009)\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nCopyright (c) Tim Moore<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadkenny\/3647991642\/\" title=\"Harry Potter filming - Access Restricted\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3372\/3647991642_23e8f0b9c3_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" alt=\"Harry Potter filming - Access Restricted\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nCopyright (c) Tim Moore<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadkenny\/3647992458\" title=\"Harry Potter filming - Crane #1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3619\/3647992458_c9653e65e3_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Harry Potter filming - Crane #1\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nCopyright (c) Tim Moore<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadkenny\/3647994764\" title=\"Harry Potter filming - Crane #2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2446\/3647994764_0edb8fe4a9_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Harry Potter filming - Crane #2\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nCopyright (c) Tim Moore<\/p>\n<p><em>These photos,<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License<\/a>. Please give credit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Update: Possibly this is what they&#8217;re filming (not much of a spoiler, but tagged it as such anyway. Guess someone may not have read the book!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler: [spoiler]<em>&#8220;We&#8217;re here in the forest, we&#8217;ve just finished the scene where Harry, Hermione and Ron are captured by the Snatchers after being chased through the woods. The Snatchers are brutal and scary but they aren&#8217;t the most intelligent of creatures.They&#8217;re trying to figure out exactly who it is they&#8217;ve caught.&#8221;<\/em>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/06\/harry-potter-countdown-david-yates-.html\">LA Times<\/a>)[\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My usual spot of mountain biking in Swinley Forest has been interrupted a little recently by some &#8220;major filming&#8221; (as they put it). Discovered lots of green screen, some cranes, and lots of crew vehicles. Not to mention a lot of mess! Spotted signs marked &#8216;WB&#8217; and had a guess&#8230; big effects film, Warner Brothers&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/22\/harry-potter-at-swinley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harry Potter at Swinley<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1],"tags":[48,51,49,44,47,43,50,46,45],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filming-locations","category-general","tag-bracknell","tag-deathly-hallows","tag-film","tag-filming","tag-forest","tag-harry-potter","tag-movie","tag-swinley","tag-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeyounextwednesday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}