Lord of the Rings Trilogy?!
Question: How did they make John Rhys-Davies so short? You know the dwarf who fought alongside the others :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:John_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gimli...
He is actually : 63 years old
Born: Friday, May 5, 1944
(Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK)
Height: 6' 1" Six feet one inches!
Answers: How did they make John Rhys-Davies so short? You know the dwarf who fought alongside the others :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:John_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gimli...
He is actually : 63 years old
Born: Friday, May 5, 1944
(Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK)
Height: 6' 1" Six feet one inches!
for some shoots they used computers, or just forced perspective (standing further away), or just being on his knees/ putting other people on boxes and far away shoots a body double like the hobbits. It varied throughout.
the magic of technology :)
Forced perspective in some of the camera shots, other actors placed on higher ground of sorts, and of course green screen special effects.
its actually not complicated.
say they were filming a shot of the entrie cast.
they people who were meant to be short like the hobbits and gimili were placed farther away from the camera, the talelr people were closer to the camera.
and for action shots like that they would just use midgets
its all in the documentaries that are in the extended editions
There were a few different techniques used.
The first is camera angles: a camera looking down at someone makes them look short (by contrast, a camera looking up at someone makes them look tall).
The other is a more complicated process known as blue- or green- screen, where the actor is filmed behind a single-color backdrop, then electronically "pasted" into the movie.
They also used height doubles in some action scenes (a small person made up exactly the same way works great, if there's not much dialogue)
They used camera tricks including filming him further frome the others and standing in a trench when close up to the other actors. See the link below:
its forced perspective. They put characters that are suppose to big near the camera. Or a bluescreen shot :)