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CREW: FIFTY SHADES Author & Producer E. L. James/Erika Leonard Showcases BC Film Crew to World

Updated: July 4th. Fifty Shades has wrapped in Vancouver. Director James Foley and Erika Leonard (E. L. James).

London’s Erika Leonard (E. L. James) has been in Vancouver for five months producing two Fifty Shades sequels — Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed — adapted from her trilogy of novels. On set almost every day, this former head of production in British TV has given fans a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of major movies and the “village” it takes to do it.

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It Takes a Village. At Canada Motion Pictures Park.

Crew lunch #FSD #ItTakesAVillage

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Paul Barry, 1st AD.

Paul Barry 1st AD. #Bashful #RROP

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Paul Barry with British Erika Leonard and American Director of Photography John Schwartzman, whose next film will be Star Wars: Episode 9.

#PaulBarry #FirstAD #JohnSchwartzman #DP #FSD

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Sasha Proctor, Steadicam. At Cecil Green House.

#Steadicam @sashaproctor #FiftyShadesMovie

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Ian Fox, camera operator in Gastown.

Ian Fox our Camera Operator #FSD

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Mark Noda, Sound. At Whistler.

Sound with a view. #MarkNoda #FiftyShadesMovie

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#LocationSoundMixer #MarkNoda #FSF

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Rodrigo Cardoso and Carrie, second camera assistants.

#GreenScreenInBlackAndWhite with Camera A and Camera B #SecondCameraAssistants @carriecamera and @rodrigo23_

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Jared Brown, set dresser, in the Red Room of Pain.

Peek-a-boo. That’s not Mrs Jones cleaning… It’s Jared Brown #SetDresser #RROP

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Lighting.

#TheSoldierForHollywood #RandyJablonka #LightingTechnician #FSD

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#Lighting @jzwicks & #JesseDeacon #FiftyShadesMovie

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Props.

Fun with the prop dept… #DavidDowling #SpencerLouttit #FSF

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Grips at Casa Mia

Laying track #Grips #FiftyShadesMovie

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Grips.

#Flyswatter #FiftyShadesMovie #Grips

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Tying down Seattle. #FiftyShadesMovie #Grips

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Danielle White, Costumes

Staying out of the rain #DanielleWhite #CostumeDept

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Hair and makeup

#HairAndMakeUp #fiftyshadesmovie

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#Setlife #HairAndMakeUp #TaskLights #FSD

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Sets

Whistler

Gastown

Night shoot #FSD

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Studio. Christian’s apartment.

Christian’s apartment #SetBuild #fiftyshadesmovie

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Rain tower in downtown Vancouver

Make it rain! #FSD

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West Vancouver

Waiting for the light to fade #FSD

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Cameras

Two cameras, no waiting… #FiftyShadesFreed

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Sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed shot in metro Vancouver for almost five months from mid-February to today.

James Foley directed the back-to-back productions based on scripts by Niall Leonard, Erika’s husband.

Fifty Shades Darker will be in theatres on February 16, 2017 and Fifty Shades Freed opens a year later on February 9, 2018.

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