- Hello friends, wizard, witches and muggles.
Welcome back to my channel,
I hope you're all doing really well today.
We are here at the Harry Potter photographic exhibition
here in Covent Garden, London
and I am joined by the very magical Sasha,
would you like to introduce yourself
to my magical online family?
- Hi everyone my name's Sasha,
and I work here at the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition.
- So you know all of the magical facts?
- Everything.
- You've got all the knowledge, amazing
for those watching that have never visited here before,
can you let everybody know what is
the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition?
- Absolutely,
we hold many iconic photographs
from the filmmaking of Harry Potter series
and fantastic beasts as well.
We also have some props
and some photo opportunities along the way as well.
- So much magic to discover,
so if people want to visit here,
can you tell everybody where is it
and how can we get here?
- Absolutely,
so we're based in the heart of Covent Garden,
we're about five minute walk
from Covent Garden tube station
and about a seven minute walk
from Leicester square tube station as well.
- Amazing,
so if you're in London
and you want something new and magical
to do on your magical trip out
then this might be the place to visit.
How long do you reckon it would take
to look at all of the magic that is here?
- We would probably recommend about an hour
but obviously you can take as much time as you want,
there's a lot of stuff to take in
and a lot of facts to find out from our lovely hosts.
- Yeah, so take your time,
don't rush around,
take it all in,
but yeah so we're going to take you around
and have a little look.
I'm very excited because I know that you know,
some magical things,
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Let's go I'm ready for a tour.
- Let's go.
- Let's go. - Let's go.
(playful music)
- Okay, here we are at
the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition
at the beginning,
I'm very excited,
you've got loads of magic to show me, haven't you?
- Absolutely. - Shall we go ahead?
- Let's go. - Let's have a look around
so the first thing that I am seeing
is this gigantic Hogwarts acceptance letter.
It is probably the biggest one I've ever seen.
- It's amazing, isn't it?
Really it's kind of the first big photo opportunity we have
and there are many along the way as well.
- Oh, so there's more magical Photo-ops
for us to get excited about,
I love the big wax seal as well
- Yeah - That's very, very cool
so let's move through the exhibition,
Ooh, we've got a Diagon alley section.
- Yeah, this is the first section we come to.
- The most magical street that there is,
we've got a leaky cauldron sign up there,
I'd love that in my house.
- We do have some props in this section here,
in this one we have the lovely authentic scarfs,
(cherry gasps) - They're beautiful
- They're the ones from philosopher stone.
- So many things,
I'm loving all of these display cases with
a little bit of magic in each one,
we've got the wall
so we've stepped into Diagon alley,
we've got ollivanders
- Great thing about this exhibition
is each section you go into
is themed pictures for the pictures in that section.
- That's exciting. - Really exciting.
- So you get to go into a little bit deeper
into the magic because you go around.
- Absolutely. - That's so cool,
I've found Gringotts guys.
- You found Gringotts, congratulations.
- Wow, I mean that's beautiful,
we've got an actual book.
- Yep this one is actually
from Harry Potter Philosophers stone,
when they filmed on location in and Australia house
which is actually just around the corner from here.
- Oh. - So you can
if you want to jump on there on your way home, you can.
They couldn't use Australia house for the later movies.
So they did move to Leveson in the end,
especially for the last two when it gets destroyed
by the dragon.
(cherry gasps) - But yeah it's beautiful.
- Got a gold bar in there, (sasha laughs)
keep your hands to yourself guys.
There's a lot of photographs that I've never ever seen,
I could spend a long time in here.
- It's amazing the detail that you miss
in the movies that you get to see
especially with the different locations and stuff,
it's really, really special.
- Yeah, just love behind the scenes of everything,
how everything's made - Yes.
and the amount of people
that are behind these magnificent movies,
look at these we've got some quills in here,
- Absolutely. - Little texts.
- These are all the authentic ones
from the movies - Oh really?
- Designed by MinaLima of course.
- I love MainaLima,
the graphic designers off the Wizarding world.
- I know who doesn't love MinaLima.
- They are absolutely wonderful,
ooh, we got some little footsteps
let me just follow these around.
(sasha laughs)
What is this magnificent thing that I have just found?
- This is what we call our view finder.
- A view finder, wow it looks very cool.
Should I have a little look through one of these?
- Yes please do,
these will have little snippets,
little knowledge.
- I'm not showing you guys what is in here,
you won't believe it
there is some serious magic going on.
So you'll have to book your tickets
if you want to know what's inside the viewfinder
- Top secret.
- It is top secret it looks very cool
oh look at that,
this looks like it's from,
it looks like it's from Snape's classroom.
- That is absolutely correct.
- Is it? Amazing.
- This is probably my favourite fact,
- Ooh.
- When the prop designers were designing all
the potions and bottles and what was in them,
they actually went to London zoo
and bought loads of little animal figures.
- Oh my Gosh. (cherry giggles)
- They kind of broke them up
and put spider's legs on an owl.
- Oh. (cherry laughs)
- I know really random.
- I got some books as well,
we've got Gilderoy Lockhart,
Unfogging the Future for your divination.
- Absolutely. (cherry laughs)
- Okay, forbidden forest
I'm not sure if we want to go
into this section to be honest,
it's forbidden.
I'm not first year though so
- You're fine, you're fine. - All right, let's go in then
- I'll protect you. - Oh, thanks.
- I mean Voldemort's around.
- We've got Draco with the monster,
I love the monster book of monsters.
It's one of my favourite thing.
- The eyes freak me out,
the eyes are not for me.
- You've got to stroke it's little spine
and you'll be all right.
- So we come to another lovely costume,
our second costume in the exhibition.
- I recognise this,
I think all of you guys will as well.
(sasha laughs) This is Hermione
from the Deathly Hallows.
- The Deathly Hallows, yep.
We do have her iconic beaded bag as well.
- Oh yes Hermione's bag is absolutely beautiful,
I mean she's got good fashion sense really.
- I'd wear this out now.
- So is this the authentic.
- The authentic - One
- Yep, this has come straight
from the Warner brothers archives.
- Emma Watson has been in this.
- Yes.
- No wonder there's a case around them.
- Yes. - Look with your eyes.
It's absolutely gorgeous,
it's like she's standing right in front of us.
- Yes.
- We've got another costume here.
- Yes.
- Not sure if I want to get too close to this one.
- This is Voldemort.
- Yes, a really amazing fact about this costume
is during the filming
of Harry Potter and deathly Hallows,
as each Horcrux gets destroyed.
Voldemort's robes become more green,
more decayed so it looks like he's getting weaker.
- I did know that fact.
- I knew you would.
- I did, did you guys know that fact?
Let us know down below
but I just think the amount of detail
that goes into the costumes.
- Yeah.
- It's so fantastic to see these up close.
- Yeah.
- And them lit beautifully because the amount of effort,
the distressing that we can see in this.
- When you see this close you get a feel
for the weight of the costume
- Yeah.
- Because this is one that is really heavy,
you wouldn't think it when you see it in the movies.
- Yeah and can you imagine wearing that all day onset.
(Sasha laughs)
- This is another one of our major photo opportunities
and you can find a broomstick.
- I'm gonna go have a little sit
- In a major part of the Harry Potter movies
and a lot of movies that use CGI
and the special effects is the green screen,
this type of green screen is called chroma green.
- Okay.
- That's the colour, chroma green.
- That's amazing,
this broom I feel like I'm ready
(sasha laughs)
to go play some Quidditch
and catch some golden snitches,
when you visit here at
the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition here
in London, Covent Garden,
you can get your very own photographs of you on a broom
and honestly they make the magic for you
so when it's all printed out,
they're absolutely beautiful.
Something else that you can get when you're here,
it's a ministry of magic ID card.
- That's correct.
- I squealed when I first realised that they did this,
shall we go to the ministry of magic?
- Yeah let's go.
- Can you show me the entrance?
- I absolutely can,
come this way. - Okay, okay
I'm coming, there it is,
I'm ready, I'm ready to go.
Here it is. (door squeaks)
I just want one of these in my house.
(door squeaks)
Right guys, I'm sorry
but I'm going to leave you here.
(both laughs)
I'm going to the ministry,
I'm kidding,
I'm not but how beautiful is this?
If you're into your Instagrams
and you like to get the snap, the gramme,
this is probably my favourite photo opportunity here
at the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition.
I mean look at it.
How could you not love it?
Especially when you're here in London as well.
- Absolutely
and you can do some really cool boomerangs
with you coming out of the door.
- Yeah. - Spinning.
- You could do some very good content with that
- Absolutely - And be very magical
so we've been to the ministry,
- We've been to the ministry.
- I tell you what this is exhausting,
we've been to ministry,
we've been to Diagon alley,
we've been to platform nine and three quarters.
- I know and now we're about to travel the world.
- Oh, this is fantastic beasts,
I found MACUSA.
- Absolutely,
we've got photos from both fantastic beasts,
the first one and then Crimes of Grindelwald as well.
- These are cool on the ceiling.
- Yeah. - I think you have
to look up when you're here,
I mean it's just - We've got
a MACUSA sheet here.
- Yeah it's big.
- So big.
(cherry laughs)
It's very majestic indeed,
I've got a question for you. - Yeah let's go for it.
Have you seen Harry Potter
and the cursed child in theatre?
- I have, yes.
- Now I have no idea how the magic works
on stage with this Time-Turner
because they make it spin
and here it is up close.
- When I first saw this I was just fan girling.
I was like, this is so cool.
- It's amazing.
- I want one, I wish they sell them.
(cherry laughs)
Okay, we are coming to the end of
the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition
but that is not the end of the magic
because where are we about to walk into Sasha?
- We're gonna go to London's only Bottled Butterbeer Bar
- Bottled Butterbeer Bar
that is a big mouthful,
say it three times fast.
I am ready for butter beer.
I'm very thirsty.
It's thirsty work looking around that.
- Absolutely.
- Now these are just beautiful
is there some facts about this?
- Yeah, these were a brand new logo designed by MinaLima.
- I'm a big fan of the gold foiling
and I also am a big fan of butterbeer
so I'm gonna pour myself one.
You said to me of I lift it high
I can make a frothy top.
- That's it. (cherry gasps)
- There it is. - There you go.
- There's the butter bit
Oh, look it fit perfectly,
I mean it looks fantastic,
I'm gonna do a test taste.
(cherry gulps)
Tastes very nice.
I'm gonna cheers you,
thank you - Cheers.
for showing me around - Your welcome.
the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition today,
if you guys are home watching
and you want to come visit
the Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition,
here in Covent Garden, London,
then where can they go get their tickets?
Say it again Sasha.
- www.harrypotteronlocation.co.uk
and we would really love to see you
and look forward to welcoming you
and to see all the magic.
- There is a lot of magic here,
so head on down into my description,
click on that link,
book your tickets,
and look I've been to the shop as well,
I know you're all going to ask,
I bought half of the store.
That's gonna be a separate video
but thank you guys so much for watching
and definitely come visit here next time you're in London.
- Awesome. - Thank you very much, Sasha.
- You're welcome, pleasure.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Right, butterbeer time.
Oh, that's nice and cold,
it's very nice, refreshing.