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In all the years we've been here, we've seen some pretty amazing sets but...
...for attention to detail just grandness, the Room of Requirement...
...this year, was incredible.
The Room of Requirement is a really fun space.
It's a really achievement.
It's one of our biggest stages.
And there's a mountain range in Wales called the Brecon Beacons...
...and I said to Stuart, "Make this the Brecon Beacons of the Room of Requirement."
It needs to go on and on and on, like this great, big mountain range...
...of discarded magical objects.
Every corner has a beatiful top-shot, wide-shot angle.
But if you look up here...
...these stacks are only a third height.
So we'll go another two, three times these heights.
It's an amazing set because it's probably one of the only sets...
...that has ever been created only by props.
-Roll, please. -Rolling.
And action!
There is no set.
Well, actually there is some set, but it's pretty buried. Um...
In fact, I'm struggling to point out a piece to you.
There's a piece. Look, if you can pan around to the top of the pile of chairs there...
...you see that it is the same vaulted structure...
...that the smaller version of this set was.
So there is architecture, but it's 65 feet above us.
You just see under here, the...
..the cores, which are basically um, scaffolding frames...
...like the one you can see over to my right here...
...which are clad in just plywood and painted black.
And then that provides a very convenient space for the Props guys...
...to attach with their dressing.
Because, obviously, it needs to be secure and safe.
They literally filled it with... Just literally, like, more stuff than you can ever imagine...
...like old, like, World War II trunks and, uh, chairs and tables and glasses.
I mean, it was... Instruments that don't exist.
Because we'd been shooting six films before, over nine years...
...we have amassed a great deal of props and furniture.
We're at, um, an auction room about 50 miles away from the studio...
...that we come to regularly.
Today, we're shopping for a variety of sets. So we enjoy just looking here...
...and seeing things.
We get inspiration for things that you don't know you want until you see them.
We have got 72 containers of props...
...from previous sets, and they're quite empty now.
A lot of them are here.
And I think it'll be fun for kids to recognize things that they've seen previously in films.
Well, it's ended up in the Room of Requirement.