Visualizing the Story

Visualizing the Story is a six-part documentary in the Extended Edition appendices (disc 3, "From Book to Vision") to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Directed by Michael Pellerin, this section covers the early storyboard, pre-visualization, and screening processes in the production. It is followed by "Designing and Building Middle-earth".

Christian Rivers, a Weta art director of the production team, drew most of the storyboards of the plot of the movie. After scene design was finalized, Peter Jackson used toy-sized miniatures of setting and characters, to review and decide on camera movements for each scene. The computer graphics program PreViz was then used to visualize the scenes with basic 3D models.

Personnel

 * Peter Jackson, director
 * Grant Major, production designer
 * Christian Rivers, visual effects art director
 * Alex Funke, director of miniatures photography
 * Barrie Osborne, producer
 * Rick Porras, co-producer
 * Elijah Wood, actor of Frodo
 * Brian Van't Hul, visual effects cinematographer
 * Marion Davey, visual effects art dept. coordinator
 * Randall William Cook, animation designer & supervisor