Aslan’s Country has posted an interview with Narnia storyboard artist Tom Nelson.  He speaks about his time working on the Narnia films, as well as working with both Andrew Adamson and Michael Apted.  He also goes into how he got into storyboarding as well as the process of storyboarding.  He’s storyboarded on both Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  It’s a great little interview, and I hope that you enjoy it.

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It appears that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be shot on digital cameras.  The first two films were shot on traditional 35mm film stock, but the wave of the future appears to be in digital film.  Cinematographer Dante Spinotti was recently interviewed, and mentioned it’s use on Narnia.

Q: Why not go with a digital camera you’d already used? Why did you decide on the Sony F23 for Public Enemies?

Spinotti : Michael [Mann] likes depth of field, images with deep focus, and that camera has a chip that’s more like 16mm that gave us that depth of focus. It’s the same reason why I chose the same camera for the film I am going into now, The Chronicles of Narnia. The depth of field works in our favor. The camera also has an advantage in the sense that it is much more elastic. You can adjust gamma curves and gain for incredible control over the image. You can also shoot much bigger energy in the sense that you can have a zoom lens and the camera can move around in a quicker way.

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Portugese Narnia Fansite MundoNarnia.com had the opportunity to interview Tom Nelson, a storyboard artist who has done work on all three Narnia films so far, including the upcoming Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  How the interview came up is one thing, but they’ve alerted us to it, which you can read here.
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NarniaWeb member icarus found an entry on Lee Ravitz’s resume, stating that he was involved in green screen tests for the Dufflepuds in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  This leads us to believe that the Dufflepuds with either be entirely CG, or they’ll be motion captured much in the way that Gollum was motion captured for The Lord of the Rings. Lee Ravitz’s resume states:

Role: Dufflepud (Green Screen VFX Test Shots Only)
Type: Film (Feature)
Production: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Director: Angus Bickerton
Company: Purple Sail Ltd.
Venue: Twickenham Studios

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We’ve been promising news of casting calls whenever we receive them, and tonight Oswald the Lucky Rabbit e-mailed us with this update from StarNow.co.uk.  One of the stipulations is that you should be living in Australia for this.  Another item to note about the page is what it says near the top: Casting for Chronicles of Narnia – Invisible ARMY.  Could Invisible ARMY be the working title? They write:

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Ben Barnes is a very down to earth guy, and provides a really good example of what he went through on the promotional tour for Prince Caspian.  He mentions New York, where I saw him about four out of the seven days that I was there, and sometimes twice in one day, so I can attest to what he says about his experience there.

It can be hard work being a Hollywood hero. Just ask Ben Barnes, a.k.a. Prince Caspian, star of the billion-dollar-grossing Chronicles of Narnia franchise.

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It’s been more than a year since the release of Prince Caspian, and it’s just been nominated for an award.  More specifically, concept artist Justin Sweet has been nominated for Best Product Illustration for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.  The Chelsey Awards are given for excellence in science fiction and fantasy art or illustration. The awards have been presented since 1985 and are run by the Association for Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA). The awards were named after the artist Chesley Bonestell after his death in 1986.  They are presented at the World Science Fiction Convention.  The convention will take place in Montréal, Québec, to be held Thursday 6 August – Monday 10 August, 2009.

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Many many people have written us to let us know that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is definitely, confirmed again, to be filming on the Gold Coast in Australia.  Thanks, in particular, to Brendan and Elika for the particular announcement.
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A low-quality picture of the “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” logo is posted in an entry on the Jim Hill Media blog.

Check out the entry here.  The VDT logo appears about half way down the page.  It’s very similar to the original logos for both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, which is great considering the change in production studio.

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While most of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is likely to be shot in Queensland on the Gold Coast in Australia, it’s possible that some of it could be shot in New Zealand.  Producer Mark Johnson told The Dominion Post last year that neither he nor Andrew Adamson had ruled out shooting some scenes in New Zealand.  Adamson is acting as a producer on the third film, as Michael Apted has stepped into the role of director.

Film New Zealand could not say whether The Voyage of the Dawn Treader had made any decision about shooting there, however, stating that Queensland’s studio facilities serve as a reminder that they need similar facilities to attrack film-makers to New Zealand.

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