Behind-the-scenes Production of Sparrows Becoming Princess

In order to truly reflect the rural life of the Peggy family in the film, the producer found a real farm to shoot. The rural life of the farm owner Miller family is very similar to the life of the Peggy family imagined by the screenwriter in the script. In order to let Julia Stiles and luke mably know the true meaning of farm life, the director asked the two leading actors to experience life with the Millers. Although it was filmed in a quiet country, the progress of the crew was not idle, and all the shooting plans should be consistent with the schedule of the farm crew.

Lawn mower competition

Woodbridge Agricultural Association provided a venue for James Spencer, a film producer, to build a lawn mower track. Lawn mower competition is a very popular amateur competition in the midwest and south of the United States, and the modified lawn mower can even reach more than 60 miles per hour. In order to make the competition scene authentic, the crew turned to the American Lawn Mower Competition Association for help and invited 10 members to participate in the shooting of the competition. These professionals even brought their own machines.

Royal shooting

After filming Pastoral Life, the crew moved to Prague and Copenhagen to prepare for filming The Royal Life of the Prince. Many important scenes in the film took place in the palace. After a lot of research and interviews, the director and production designer decided to copy a palace based on the Danish castle of Fort fredericks. This Renaissance-style castle was completed in the12nd century, and its architectural appearance has undergone tremendous evolution in hundreds of years. Among 900 castles in Czech Republic, Spencer decided to choose several baroque castles to shoot.

Starting from Prague, I rushed to the Rydnich Valdiche area to shoot the palace scene. The crew filmed the interior of the palace rooms in the local Valdi Castle, such as the king's study and reception room, the queen's study, the prince's bedroom and the state banquet hall. In addition, in the castles of Proskovic and Libocovic, the crew filmed the vault of the Queen, Peggy's bedroom, the grand ballroom and the exterior of the palace, while the scene of the prince proposing to Peggy was completed in Ledenez Castle. In the two libraries of Strahov Monastery, the scenes of the Palace Library and the Danish Parliament Hall were completed.

clothes design

The film director chose Macquarie Gadeci, a French fashion designer, to design clothes for the characters in the film, which not only reflected the fresh side of Peggy, a college student in the Midwest of the United States, but also made the clothes of the royal family complement each other. Gardasi himself admits that the film "The Sparrow Becomes a Princess" is a super show of clothes, and there are few opportunities to design clothes for members of the royal family in the film. In order to make the design work as real as possible, Gadeci never misses a tiny detail. She imported cloth from a famous cloth manufacturer in England to make the dresses of kings and princes. Although this will inevitably increase the budget several times, Gardesi still insists on this practice.

royaljewelry

The royal jewels in the film, whether full of modern flavor or emitting extraordinary classical charm, are irreplaceable by fakes. Harry Winston, the world's top jewelry company, lent several dazzling jewels to the crew, including a platinum wedding ring made of 6-carat diamonds and three precious stones from perfect cut, with a market value of more than 654.38 million US dollars. Some world-renowned jewelers also competed to appear, providing Peggy's stunning pink evening dress and a pair of 7-carat diamond earrings at the dance, together with a pink gem pendant worth nearly $ 654.38+ 10,000; And a necklace made of 24 carats of broken diamonds and pink gems, estimated at $200,000.

Among them, the collection in the Danish Queen's Treasury includes not only the antique jewelry provided by Jablonex, the most famous antique decorative jewelry manufacturer in the Czech Republic, but also the contemporary jewelry from Paris, including diamonds and precious stones worth more than US$ 4 million provided by Harry Winston. Frank Barone, the head of Harry Winston's security department, also came to the set to supervise the security of the company's jewelry. Throughout the film, all the jewels provided by Harry Winston Company cost nearly $5 million.

Vault installation

The Queen of Denmark's 9-foot-square private vault was designed by production designer James Spencer. It is made of blue steel plate and covered with blue velvet. The vault was built twice. At first, Spencer placed it directly on the floor of the baroque palace to capture Peggy's perspective when she saw the Queen walk in. Later, in order to take close-up photos of the jewels, the vault was removed from the palace and rebuilt in the studio. The whole production and shooting process is very complicated. Spencer installed special lighting equipment and a complicated mirror system to set off the brilliance of jewelry with clever light.