Trouble of the Rings: The Fellowship


Cap Solo Amor Ldora TGR Polly Fidel Aliks and others

Amor

City, State: Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
Role, responsibilities: Director of Photography, editor, haradrim's dancer, and, of course, choreographer. :)
The way I got into the project: I am working in this project since its beginning. I've got to the shooting through my acquaintance with Cap Solo and Aliks on the Imladris. That time they had offerd me to become a director of photography. This year I've done some work as a professional. You know I'm a choreographer in my everyday life."
General impression: For me every day of shooting is an adventure, an escape to some world we are creating ourselves. I am privy to a miracle, meeting people whom I love beyond all measure, getting even some pungent emotions. All of this brings to my life a lot of happy unforgetable moments. Although this work is very demanding, the feeling it leaves is the most bright, vivid and creative one.
Most memorable epsodes: Of course I couldn't forget all those scenes in which I took part myself, that is all scenes with haradrim's dancers. Surely I couldn't forget the most bright scenes of Helm's Crap battle. And especially the shooting of the Teoden's dinner. How they cheered us with their out of screenplay improvisations! And of course the scene with the faramirian who got to the drain through the dam. It was so funny!
Feats you had to perform for the film: When we've shooted the haradrim's dance I had to undress nearly to the beach-style oriental dress and go barefoot on the wet ground. We've shooted it quite a long time and only God knows how we haven't caught a flu. This year we had altogether particularly bad luck with weather. It was always +11, +15, it was raining, and this was especially bad for camera and for us too. After all the time-table is a stubborn thing and in spite of awful weather conditions all actors spent whole day outdoors dressed in light open costumes. One day in Butovo fields it was raining so strong that we had to stop shooting. Everybody was soaked to the skin, haradrims dauned in the wet high grass, and the clay soil was so wet that I stuck in it as in the marsh. Everybody and everything had clay on it. We had to push our cars out of the mud. And then tried to clean ourselves for hours in the producer's flat.
It was very cold to stay static behind the camera during long hours of shooting not daring to breathe. So the Helm's Crap became a real test for all of us.
A couple of words for the participants and interested ones: Thank all of you for your still lasting enthusiasm and for being together. I believe that you would keep this good spirit for a long time. I like to work and communicate in such nice atmosphere.