Behind-the-scenes Production of Sleepy Valley

This film is adapted from washington irving's classic novel The Legend of Sleepless Valley. All the films were shot in England. Before filming, tim burton used Mario Bava's Black Sunday, roman polanski's Shi Tian monster hunt and The Hammer as reference films for the creators.

After investigating the Hudson Canyon where Sleepless Valley is located, the creative staff agreed that the main scene should be filmed in the studio. Because although the local villages are quite consistent with historical records, they can't find the artistic conception of the movie story.

At the suggestion of producer Scott Rudin, the whole class arrived in London. Burton and production designer Rick Hein Riches recruited several old partners in the local area, including Les Tomkins, artistic director of Spider-Man, Terry Apsey, construction manager, and Peter Young, set designer.

The film started shooting on1October 20th in Leavis Dengying Studio. 1998+ 165438. A few weeks after the filming of Van Tassel Manor, the crew rushed to the studio in Hiberton and began to build a mysterious and deep forest. Under the guidance of production designers, artistic directors and others, it took 70 workers 12 weeks to complete the forest scenery. Workers extracted molds from oak trees in Windsor Park and made a 30-foot-tall tree out of fiberglass and steel.

The most elaborate scene in this movie is Sleepy Valley. The film crew filmed at Hampton Manor, an hour's drive north of London. The construction team, consisting of 80 construction workers, engineers and various skilled craftsmen, completed the town 12 building in four months. In order to build this town, the crew overcame many difficulties, and the bad weather had a great impact. The flood caused by heavy rain flooded the town center, and many equipment and workers were trapped in knee-deep mud, so the crew had to build roads and drainage facilities for equipment.