Harry Potter 7CD Collection - Pictures, unboxing videos, and art design / liner notes discussion

[Jay 38,754]

This thread is where we can share pictures if the set, unboxing or other videos, and discuss the overall packaging as well as the Jim Titus's art design and Mike Matessino's liner notes.

 

Please discuss the actual musical content in the music thread, and leave all your shipping and ordering comments in the original thread.

 

 

Thanks!

[Frank Vincent 247]

Found some pictures on Instagram:

 

 

[redishere 697]

Looks gorgeous!!

[Josh500 1,616]

Oh wow...

 

Looks like a high quality product! 

[TSMefford 1,525]

Holy shit that’s a beauty. I really need this set now. I’ve been passing the time by editing the Non-JW source music from POA. I’ve lost it.

[TSMefford 1,525]

Amazing. Can’t wait to take my own photos...on Monday xP

[Josh500 1,616]

By the way, why does it look like there's 4 CD cases in there? 

 

In the fourth CD case is just the 3rd disc of PS?

[TSMefford 1,525]

7 minutes ago, Josh500 said:

By the way, why does it look like there's 4 CD cases in there? 

 

In the fourth CD case is just the 3rd disc of PS?

 

PS has a large case. It’s actually one big jewel case with some black plastic in the middle.

 

EDIT: Image for reference 

[Josh500 1,616]

5 minutes ago, TSMefford said:

 

PS has a large case. It’s actually one big jewel case with some black plastic in the middle.

 

Yeah, you're right! That was actually visible in the promo pic, as well...

[Jay 38,754]

HP1 is in a standard 4CD clamshell.  It's the same idea as other LLL 3 or 4 disc sets such as the John Williams Jurassic Park Collection, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Batman Animated volumes 2 and 3, Elfman's POTA, Goldsmith's Star Trek TMP.... or other labels such as Intrada's Conan The Barbarian, Great Escape, Poltergeist II, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or FSM with The Wild Bunch or Mr. Chips or TV Omnibus, etc.

 

HP2 and HP3 are each in standard size 2CD cases.

Each score has their own booklet, and then there's another booklet bundled along with each of the 3 jewel cases inside an outer box

[Josh500 1,616]

I'm actually starting to think that 2018 would have been a "year for the books" for JW fans even if they had released just this one set... 😂

 

Without:

The Cowboys 

Dracula

Saving Private Ryan 

Schindler's List 

 

[Jay 38,754]

I found a picture on Twitter

 

 

 

[mrbellamy 6,634]

 

 

Congrats Jay! Thank you!!

 

See y’all on the other side 

[Chewy 2,471]

Looks awesome! Have you listened to it?

[Jay 38,754]

Thank you and you're welcome, mrbellamy.  Enjoy the collection

 

 

... is that a Darth Vader helmet reflected in the HP1 cover?

[mrbellamy 6,634]

7 minutes ago, Chewy said:

Looks awesome! Have you listened to it?

 

Just got home. Asap.

 

6 minutes ago, Jay said:

... is that a Darth Vader helmet reflected in the HP1 cover?

 

 

Cover's blown. I'm King Mark.

[Jay 38,754]

 

Woah, your pictures were normal sized before, and now they are tiny

[mrbellamy 6,634]

Weird, I downsized them since they looked huge on my desktop. I'll resize them back.

[TSMefford 1,525]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

Woah, your pictures were normal sized before, and now they are tiny

 

[Bilbo 3,746]

8 minutes ago, TSMefford said:

 

Reducio not reducto! Reducto would make it explode!!

[TSMefford 1,525]

2 minutes ago, Bilbo said:

Reducio not reducto! Reducto would make it explode!!

 

Yeah I failed at finding an accurate gif. I was quote annoyed. But settled for it.

[Jay 38,754]

I forgot @John Takis and Ford Thaxton (@buysoundtrax) were thanked in the liners.  Maybe they can share what they contributed?

[gkgyver 1,647]

Burgers?

[Lockdown 238]

 

[TSMefford 1,525]

5 minutes ago, Lockdown said:

 

 

YES! Thank you @Lockdown

[Jay 38,754]

Thank you for filming horizontally... strange that it uploaded vertically to youtube!

[Lockdown 238]

Yeah sorry about that lol just tilt your head hahaha

[TSMefford 1,525]

3 minutes ago, Lockdown said:

Yeah sorry about that lol just tilt your head hahaha

 

That's what I'm doing. Thanks for the music preview in the background too! @bollemanneke WINTER'S SPELL

[Jay 38,754]

"Mark Ma-tess-in-oh" 

[Chewy 2,471]

OMG we hear unreleased clean POA music in the background!! xD

[Jay 38,754]

Around 3:30 is "Parents' Portrait"

 

Then after that is "The Empty Playground"

 

@ 6:48 you can hear the previously unreleased cue "Squeeze Play Waltz"

 

8:18 is "Winter's Spell"

 

 

[TSMefford 1,525]

Just now, Jay said:

@6:48 you can hear the previously unreleased cue "Squeeze Play Waltz"

 

@8:18 is Winter's Spell

 

 

 

I love how much Squeeze Play Waltz there is! It's cut down SO much in the film.

[gkgyver 1,647]

4 minutes ago, Chewy said:

OMG we hear unreleased clean POA music in the background!! xD

 

How is it clean when it's in the background?

 

I can hear unreleased clean Hobbit music during the movie!!!

[Chewy 2,471]

Just now, gkgyver said:

 

How is it clean when it's in the background?

I don't know, my joke was bad, I got it, thank you.

[mrbellamy 6,634]

Reading the POA liner notes and there are some really nice quotes from Alfonso Cuaron.

 

Quote

The sessions were blissful. Just to watch John conduct was fantastic and to see the respect that all the musicians had for him.

 

Quote

I wanted to channel the music into a little bit of a new place and when I spoke with John about going in that direction, he was very intrigued. I believe he really loved the challenge of applying this very modern, somewhat more abstract approach to Harry Potter. It was very liberating.

 

Quote

We decided not to wallpaper the film with music. And I told John that I didn't want descriptive music throughout, but instead I wanted the score to not just be a narrative device, but to capture the emotional undertone of the whole thing, almost like it's the conscience of Harry Potter. When I started hearing the pieces John composed, it was incredible. For a composer who has given us so many of the most famous melodies in cinema, it's amazing how atonal and experimental he can become. His musical resources seem endless.

 

He also mentions that of course JW played him things on the piano, but that John saved Knight Bus for the sessions. "The hugest brass section I've ever seen in my life."

 

Also the bird flute solo was the very first cue recorded  Flautist Karen Jones performed it perfectly first try and John congratulated her.

[TSMefford 1,525]

2 minutes ago, mrbellamy said:

Reading the POA liner notes and there are some really nice quotes from Alfonso Cuaron.

 

 

 

 

He also mentions that of course JW played him things on the piano, but that John saved Knight Bus for the sessions. "The hugest brass section I've ever seen in my life."

 

Also the bird flute solo was the very first cue recorded  Flautist Karen Jones performed it perfectly first try and John congratulated her.

 

Thanks for the sneak peek! I can't wait to read the whole thing.

[Jay 38,754]

The first cue recorded for HP1 was shockingly "5M4 Pt.4 Harry's Great Victory" while the last was "6M1A Christmas Music Box" (the keyboard version, not the singing version)

 

The first cue recorded for HP2 was "1M7 Escape From Dursleys", while the last was percussion overdubs for "1M1/1M2 Prologue Book II"

[TSMefford 1,525]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

The first cue recorded for HP1 was shockingly "5M4 Pt.4 Harry's Great Victory" while the last was "6M1A Christmas Music Box" (the keyboard version, not the singing version)

 

The first cue recorded for HP2 was "1M7 Escape From Dursleys", while the last was percussion overdubs for "1M1/1M2 Prologue Book II"

 

This set is gonna keep me occupied for a long time.

[Once 665]

3 minutes ago, Jay said:

The first cue recorded for HP1 was shockingly "5M4 Pt.4 Harry's Great Victory" while the last was "6M1A Christmas Music Box" (the keyboard version, not the singing version)

 

The first cue recorded for HP2 was "1M7 Escape From Dursleys", while the last was percussion overdubs for "1M1/1M2 Prologue Book II"

Have you considered collecting all this information in one place?

 

It's very fascinating to me, as a Williams-, Potter- and film-nerd!

[TSMefford 1,525]

Just now, Once said:

Have you considered collecting all this information in one place?

 

It's very fascinating to me, as a Williams-, Potter- and film-nerd!

 

Yeah, it was brought up before, but Jay is a busy man.

[Once 665]

Oh, sorry, I must have missed it. I should have realized.

[TSMefford 1,525]

4 minutes ago, Once said:

Oh, sorry, I must have missed it. I should have realized.

 

No problem at all. It's probably hundreds of posts ago...I'm not even sure which thread. But yeah. It will probably happen eventually. Hopefully.

 

EDIT: Found it

On 12/3/2018 at 4:03 PM, Jay said:

 

I've been working for a while on a way to get this sort of information out in a way similar to Mike's article on EOTS I link to above, but it hasn't gotten off the ground yet with everything else going on

 

 

[Jay 38,754]

There are plans to get information about the recording of film scores that is not included in the final liner notes published in some sort of official and approved way, but it won't be for a little while more I am sure.

 

For HP1-3 in particular since all the cue names and reel/part numbers were basically already out there long before the set thanks for recording session and sheet music leaks, that should be available much sooner

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,357]

2 hours ago, Josh500 said:

I'm actually starting to think that 2018 would have been a "year for the books" for JW fans even if they had released just this one set... 😂

 

Without:

The Cowboys 

Dracula

Saving Private Ryan 

Schindler's List 

Saving Private Ryan did it for me.

[Jay 38,754]

1 hour ago, Lockdown said:

Yeah sorry about that lol just tilt your head hahaha

 

As the uploader of the video, I am sure you can rotate it to its proper configuration.

[Josh500 1,616]

4 hours ago, Lockdown said:

 

 

Just watched it... Amazing unboxing video! Well done! 

 

Can't wait to get it in my hands too.

[A. A. Ron 1,841]

So what's with the white frame around each of the individual covers anyway? Is it meant to make us feel more nostalgic somehow?

[crumbs 14,584]

It's to distract us from the missing screensavers. 

[Josh500 1,616]

1 hour ago, A. A. Ron said:

So what's with the white frame around each of the individual covers anyway? Is it meant to make us feel more nostalgic somehow?

 

It's meant to clearly differentiate it from the OST albums, I think. Especially the PoA, where the cover image is identical to the OST. They sometimes do that with DVD covers too, when another edition is released.

 

But for nostalgia? No.

 

 

[Amer 2,207]

Wow. The box looks strong and sturdy. The gold printing and design gives it all a classy look. Can't wait to hold this set. Thanks for the pics and the videos. And keep em coming.