News & Events

Film released
January 14th, 2012

Premiere took place and the movie was released. We also added some content to the Extra content section.

Premiere
January 8th, 2012

Premiere will take place on Tolkienconu at Saturday January 14th at 9 pm. At about 11:15 pm second part will start where we will be showing "bonuses" - backstage photos, funny shots, talking about creating the movies etc.

Trailer released
December 5th, 2011

We have been delayed by technical difficulties with the recording, but we have finaly released the trailer and offically launched the website.

Production

Budget

The movie was made in an "enthusiast" mode, so its budget was very low. We did not keep books, there was no central budget and people often paid their expenses themselves. However, my estimate is that the movie cost about 10 000 CZK (400 EUR). Most of this budget was spent on transportation.

Timeline

January 2011
The idea of making the clip (to the already existing song) emerged
Read the book The Children of Húrin
February 2011
Wrote the script
Shot one scene (Túrin kills Brandir) as the first test
Arranged the song
March 2011
Shot (almost) full test version
Started casting, thinking about location, terms etc.
April 2011
Location scouting
Casting continued
Started making the dragon
May 2011
Finished making the dragon
Changed actors for both Túrin and Niënor
June 2011
First day of shooting - Crossings of Teiglin location - 8 hours of shooting
July 2011
Second day of shooting - Ephel Brandir a Nen Girith locations - 6 hours of shooting
August 2011
Third day of shooting - Niënor in the woods - took actually two days, 4 and 3 hours of shooting respectively
Created the tombstone of Túrun and Niënor
September 2011
Unnumbered shoot - hall of Nargothrond - about an hour
Unnumbered shoot - adult Túrin and Nellas - about an hour
First singing rehearsal
October 2011
Unnumbered shoot - Morwën and Húrin by the tombstone of their children - over an hour
Fourth day of shooting - Crossings of Teiglin location - 6 hours of shooting
Fifth day of shooting - young Túrin and Nellas and Dor-Lómin location - first took about thirty minutes, second about an hour
November 2011
Song rehearsals

Locations

Teiglin and surroundings, Nargothrond (dragging of elves, Niënor found by Mablung)
Svitava river (map)
Ephel Brandir
Curia Vítkov settlement (map)
Nen Girith
Nisa river (map)
Dor-Lómin
wooden church of St. Michael in Prague (map)
Nargothrond hall
Church of St. Lawrence in Prague (map)
woods through which Niënor runs
woods by Stříbrná Skalice (map)
Doriath woods (Nellas and Túrin)
wood in Prague (map)
grave of Túrin and Niënor
wood in Prague (map)

Technical info

Production video format

Size
1920x1080 (Full HD)
FPS
24 fps, progressive
Codec
H.264

Equipment

Production camera
Nikon D7000 DSLR
Production lenses, by usage
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8
Sigma 150mm f/2.8
Edited in
PowerDirector 9.0
"American Night" effect created in Avidemux 2.5
Conversion Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter
Test shoot edited in OpenShot
Test shoot camera
Canon 7D DSLR
First test scene was shot with some compact camera, I don't exactly know which one :)
Test shoot lenses
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8
Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5